Xiphophorus
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Poeciliidae
Subfamilia: Poeciliinae
Tribus: Poeciliini
Genus: Xiphophorus
Species (28): X. alvarezi –
X. andersi –
X. birchmanni –
X. clemenciae –
X. continens –
X. cortezi –
X. couchianus –
X. evelynae –
X. gordoni –
X. hellerii –
X. kallmani –
X. kosszanderi –
X. maculatus –
X. malinche –
X. mayae –
X. meyeri –
X. milleri –
X. mixei –
X. montezumae –
X. monticolus –
X. multilineatus –
X. nezahualcoyotl –
X. nigrensis –
X. pygmaeus –
X. roseni –
X. signum –
X. variatus –
X. xiphidium
Name
[edit]Xiphophorus Heckel, 1848
- Gender: masculine
- Type species: Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848. By subsequent designation by Bleeker 1864:140, also by Günther 1866:349
Synonyms
[edit]- Platypoecilus Günther, 1866
References
[edit]- Heckel, J. J.; 1848: Eine neue Gattung von Poecilien mit rochenartigem Anklammerungs-Organe. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 1 (1-5): 289–303, Pls. 8-9.
- Kang, J. H., Schartl, M., Walter, R. B. & Meyer, A.; 2013: Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all species of swordtails and platies (Pisces: Genus Xiphophorus) uncovers a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus, and demonstrates that the sexually selected sword originated in the ancestral lineage of the genus, but was lost again secondarily. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2013, 13:25 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-25
Vernacular names
[edit]中文: 劍尾魚屬