Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl

Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl, the mountain swordtail, is a live bearing fish in the family Poeciliidae.[2][3] It is endemic to the northwestern Pánuco River basin in Mexico.[4] The specific name of this fish refers to the poet, philosopher and emperor of Texcoco, Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472).[5]

Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Genus: Xiphophorus
Species:
X. nezahualcoyotl
Binomial name
Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
Rauchengerger, Kallman & Morizot, 1990

References

  1. Daniels, A.; Maiz-Tome, L. (2019). "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T191789A127376221. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191789A127376221.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 Sep 2012.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  4. Kang, J.H.; M. Schartl; R.B. Walter; A. Meyer (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. 13 (25). doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-25. PMC 3585855.
  5. 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 9 November 2019.


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