Genus Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Poecilia Bloch, M.E. & Schneider, J.G. 1801. Systema Ichthyologiae Iconibus ex Illustratum. Berlin 584 pp. 110 pls. [452].

  Type species:

   Poecilia vivipara Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by subsequent designation, see Bleeker, P. 1863. Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néerlandaises, publié sous les auspices du Gouvernement colonial néerlandais. Tome 3. Cyprins. Amsterdam : Fréd. Müller 150 pp. pls 102-144. [140].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Freshwaters of New World tropics (east Pacific, west Atlantic and Caribbean).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: Pilbara (PIL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls.

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp.

Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 27: 1-663 [300]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Sep-2014	CYPRINODONTIFORMES	12-Aug-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
		12-Feb-2010	(import)