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Palomares 1994-06-06 00:00:00 2025-12-16 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size An egg lying carnivorous fish which prefers rocky substrate near vegetation. Aquarium conditions: pH=7.3, H=12, 10°C water temperature (Ref. 6398). Not a seasonal killifish (Ref. 27139). A popular media fish. Huber, J.H. 1996 Killi-Data 1996. Updated checklist of taxonomic names, collecting localities and bibliographic references of oviparous Cyprinodont fishes (Atherinomorpha, Pisces). Société Française d'Ichtyologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 399 p. (Ref. 27139) FB-Morphology-10457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Christine Marie V. Casal 2002-03-15 00:00:00 2002-03-15 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Analsoft rays: 9 - 11 Haas, G. 1979 Intergeneric hybridization in a sympatric pair of Mexican Cyprinodontid fishes. Copeia 1979(1):149-152. (Ref. 41493) FB-Distribution-10457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Maria Lourdes D. Palomares 1994-06-06 00:00:00 2025-11-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Central America: El Potosí, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. IUCN 1994 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K. (Ref. 6376) FB-Uses-10457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Maria Lourdes D. Palomares 1994-06-06 00:00:00 2025-12-16 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution fisheries: of no interest; aquarium: commercial Axelrod, H.R., W.E. Burgess, N. Pronek and J.G. Walls 1991 Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of freshwater aquarium fishes. Sixth edition. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. (Ref. 6398) FB-Size-10457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Maria Lourdes D. Palomares 1994-06-06 00:00:00 2025-12-16 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10457 4.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 27139)) Huber, J.H. 1996 Killi-Data 1996. Updated checklist of taxonomic names, collecting localities and bibliographic references of oviparous Cyprinodont fishes (Atherinomorpha, Pisces). Société Française d'Ichtyologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 399 p. (Ref. 27139) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-10457 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Maria Lourdes D. Palomares 1994-06-06 00:00:00 2025-12-16 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=10457 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats demersal; non-migratory (Ref. 126106); freshwater; pH range: 7.4; dH range: 10.5 Dean, E.M., A.R. Cooper, L. Wang, W. Daniel, S. David, C. Ernzen, K.B. Gido, E Hale, T.J. Haxton, W. Kelso, N. Leonard, C. Lido, J. Margraf, M. Porter, C. Pennock, D. Propst, J. Ross, M.D. Staudinger, G. Whelan and D.M. Infante 2022 The North American Freshwater Migratory Fish Database (NAFMFD): Characterizing the migratory life histories of freshwater fishes of Canada, the United States of Mexico. J. Biogeography 49:1193-1203. (Ref. 126106)