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Poeciliidae
guppy
Poecilia reticulata
Poeciliid Fish of the Brazilian Coast
- Tropical
- Coastal
- Southern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- South America
- Fusiform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Africa
Fusiform
Smallguppy is a freshwater fish found around South America. It inhabits freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Poecilia
- Maximum length
- 5 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- South America: Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, northern Brazil and the Guyanas. Widely introduced and established elsewhere, mainly for mosquito control, but had rare to non-existing effects on mosquitoes, and negative to perhaps neutral effects on native fishes (Ref. 12217 ). Africa: Feral populations reported from the coastal reaches of Natal rivers from Durban southwards, as well as in the Kuruman Eye and Lake Otjikoto in Namibia (Ref. 7248 ). Several countries report adverse ecological impact after introduction.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
