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Poeciliidae (Poeciliids) > Poeciliinae
Etymology: Limia: Limia derived from the Latin 'limus' meaning mud, pertaining to the feeding habits of the fish, from Poey, 1854. Donald Taphorn, pers. comm. 22 Feb 2015.
More on author: Guichenot.
Entorno: milieu / zona climática / rango de profundidad / gama de distribución
Ecología
; agua dulce; salobre demersal; pH range: 7.5 - 8.2; dH range: 25 - 30; no migratorio (Ref. 126106). Tropical; 18°C - 24°C (Ref. 13371)
Central America: endemic to Cuba.
Tamaño / Peso / Edad
Madurez: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.0 cm TL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 37198); 10.0 cm TL (female)
Descripción breve
Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría
Blue-gray back, silvery sides and a white belly; scales edged with black producing a "fishnet" pattern on the sides; females with a yellow patch near the vent; male's dorsal fin and tail usually yellow-orange with blue black speckles; females with colorless fins and growing to more than double the size of males (Ref. 44091).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.
Adults inhabit streams, lakes, estuaries, coastal lagoons and mangrove swamps. They feed on worms, crustaceans, insects and plant matter (Ref. 7020). Often found in the company of sailfin molly and mosquitofish (Ref. 4409).
Ciclo vital y comportamiento de apareamiento
Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva
Produces 20-50 young. Large females can produce >100 fry every 4-6 weeks (Ref. 44091).
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)
Situación en la Lista Roja de la UICN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Amenaza para el ser humano
Harmless
Usos humanos
Pesquerías: sin interés; Acuario: Comercial
Herramientas
Informes especiales
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Estimaciones basadas en modelos
Índice de diversidad filogenética (Referencia 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01047 (0.00477 - 0.02296), b=3.14 (2.95 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Nivel trófico (Referencia 69278) |
2.9 ±0.34 se; based on food items. |
Resiliencia (Referencia 120179) |
Alto, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo inferior a 15 meses (tm=0.66). |
Vulnerabilidad pesquera (Ref. 59153) |
Low to moderate vulnerability (32 of 100). 🛈 |