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Poecilia mexicana (Orangefin molly; Shortfin molly; Atlantic molly)

Synonyms: Poecilia cuneata; Poecilia limantouri; Poecilia mexicana mexicana
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Wikipedia Abstract

Poecilia mexicana, commonly known as the shortfin molly or Atlantic molly, is a species of poeciliid fish native to fresh and brackish water in Mexico and Guatemala, including one population found in caves.
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Infraspecies

Poecilia mexicana limantouri

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  4.331 inches (11 cm)
Diet [2]  Planktivore, Detritivore
Female Maturity [1]  3 months 20 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Maya Multiple Use Area 1156412 Guatemala  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve VI 1312618 Mexico  
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve   Honduras      
Sarstoon Temash National Park II 42082 Belize  

Predators

Hemirrhagus pernix[3]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Predation by three species of spiders on a cave fish in a Mexican sulphur cave, Joachim Horstkotte, Rüdiger Riesch, Martin Plath, Peter Jäger, Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. (2010) 15 (2), 55- 58
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0