Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 97

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603752

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FFF1-FFD5-98EA-FDB5FE1232F4

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821)
status

 

** Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821) View in CoL .

Sailfin Molly. To 15 cm (5.9 in) TL ( Moyle 2002). Native to southern Atlantic United States and Gulf of Mexico, now introduced into much of warmer Pacific Rim. In California, known from Salton Sea, Ballona Marsh (Los Angeles County), intertidal wetlands of San Diego Bay, southern California ( Williams et al. 1998), and other sloughs and estuaries in Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties ( Moyle 2002). Shallow marine waters and freshwaters ( McEachran and Fechhelm 1998).

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