Perugia's limia
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
Family: | Poeciliidae |
Genus: | Limia |
Species: | L. perugiae
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Binomial name | |
Limia perugiae (Evermann & H. W. Clark, 1906)
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Perugia's limia (Limia perugiae) is a small fish of the family Poeciliidae endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic), where it occurs in streams.
Description
It grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.[2]
Taxonomy
It was described as Platypoecilus perugiae in 1906 by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark with a type locality given as a small stream in the San Francisco Mountains of the Dominican Republic.[3] The specific name honours the Italian ichthyologist Albert Perugia (1847-1897) of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova in recognition of his work on West Indian fishes.[4]
References
- ^ Lyons, T.J.; Rodríguez-Silva, R. (2021). "Limia perugiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T125981311A125986628. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T125981311A125986628.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Limia perugiae". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Platypoecilus perugiae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 November 2019.