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Poeciliidae (Poeciliids) > Poeciliinae
Etymology: Girardinus: From Charles Girard, assistant of Agassiz (1846-1848).
Eponymy: Dr Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895) was a French herpetologist and ichthyologist who was Louis Agassiz’s pupil and assistant at Neuchâtel and who moved with Agassiz to the USA. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Ambiente: milieu / zona climática / intervalo de profundidade / gama de distribuição
Ecologia
; Água doce bentopelágico; dH range: 10 - 25; não migratória. Tropical; 22°C - 26°C (Ref. 2059)
Central America: Cuba.
Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturidade: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.0 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 137577); 6.3 cm SL (female)
Found in pools and along banks, occasionally in swift water, in highland streams. A midwater and bottom swimmer, occasionally at or near the surface. Sensitive to high chlorine content and warm, turbid, poorly oxygenated, stagnant water. Feeds on diatoms, algae, detritus and insect larvae.
Ciclo de vida e comportamento de acasalamento
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
Lee, D.S., S.P. Platania and G.H. Burgess, 1983. Atlas of North American freshwater fishes, 1983 supplement. Occasional Papers of the North Carolina Biological Survey no. 1983-6. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, N.C. 67 p. (Ref. 13498)
Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Ameaça para o homem
Harmless
Utilização humana
Ferramentas
Relatórios especiais
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Estimativas baseadas em modelos
Índice de diversidade filogenética (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.00851 (0.00379 - 0.01909), b=3.15 (2.96 - 3.34), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nível Trófico (Ref. 69278) |
2.3 ±0.16 se; based on food items. |
Resiliência (Ref. 120179) |
Médio, tempo mínimo de duplicação da população 1,4 - 4,4 anos (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnerabilidade da pesca (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (32 of 100). 🛈 |