Micropoecilia bifurca

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: Poeciliini
Genus: Micropoecilia
Species: Micropoecilia bifurca

Name

Micropoecilia bifurca (Eigenmann, 1909)

• Holotype: FMNH 53539 [ex CM 1088]. Paratypes: (74, CM and IU) BMNH 1911.10.31.502-503 (2), 1911.10.31.504 (1); CAS 22557 [ex IU 11763-64] (7), 22558 [ex IU 11765-66] (6); FMNH 7526 (2), 52719-20 (5, 5), 52721 (2), 53539-40 (1, 3), 69530 (14), 72623 (5); MCZ 30119 (2); CAS-SU 21930 (2); USNM 66115 (3); ZMA 109208 (1); ZMB 18066 (2).
• Type locality: Christianburg, Guyana.

Synonyms

• Acanthophacelus bifurcus Eigenmann, 1909
• Poecilia bifurcus (Eigenmann, 1909)

References

• Eigenmann, C.H. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6(1): 4–54. BHLReference page. 

Links

• Acanthophacelus bifurca in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on March 22, 2015.
• Micropoecilia bifurca – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Micropoecilia bifurca in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.