Poecilia elegans

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: Poecilia
Species: Poecilia elegans

Name

Poecilia elegans (Trewavas, 1948)

• Holotype: BMNH 1947.11.27.4-5 (1 of 2). Paratypes: BMNH 1947.11.27.4-5 (1 of 2, allotype).
• Type locality: Jarabocoa, San Domingo, Haiti, West Indies.

Synonyms

• Mollienesia elegans Trewavas, 1948

References

• Trewavas, E. 1948. Cyprinodont fishes of San Domingo, Island of Haiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118 (pt 2): 408–415, Pl. 1. Reference page. 

Links

• Mollienesia elegans in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on May 23, 2015.
• Poecilia elegans – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Poecilia elegans in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.