Gambusia melapleura

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Poeciliidae
Subfamilia: Poeciliinae
Tribus: Gambusiini
Genus: Gambusia
Species: Gambusia melapleura

Name

Gambusia melapleura (Gosse, 1851)

• Original genus: Poecilia
• Holotype: BMNH 1849.12.27.90-95 (7)
• Type locality: Bluefields, Jamaica

Vernacular names

English: Striped gambusia

References

• Gosse, P.H. 1851. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.33264 Reference page. 

Links

• Poecilia melapleura in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on January 15, 2015.
• Gambusia melapleura in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Gambusia melapleura – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).