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Poecilia reticulata (millions fish; rainbowfish; Barbados millions; Guppies; Guppy; Million fish; Millions; Rainbow fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as millionfish and rainbow fish, is one of the world's most widely distributed tropical fish, and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species. It is a member of the Poeciliidae family and, like almost all American members of the family, is live-bearing. Guppies, whose natural range is in northeast South America, were introduced to many habitats and are now found all over the world. They are highly adaptable and thrive in many different environmental and ecological conditions. Male guppies, which are smaller than females, have ornamental caudal and dorsal fins, while females are duller in colour. Wild guppies generally feed on a variety of food sources, including benthic algae and aquatic insect larvae. Guppies are used as a model org
View Wikipedia Record: Poecilia reticulata

Infraspecies

Lebistes reticulatus aurata
Lebistes reticulatus reticulatus

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Poecilia reticulata

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  1.575 inches (4 cm)
Brood Guarder [2]  No
Litter Size [1]  100
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Male Maturity [4]  74 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve II 411 Singapore
Cerro Corá National Park II 31326 Paraguay  
Kibale National Park II 196202 Uganda
Kora National Park II 409762 Kenya
Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve 1364022 India  

Predators

Anguilla marmorata (Eel)[5]
Eleotris sandwicensis (Akupa sleeper)[5]
Kuhlia sandvicensis (Hawaiian aholehole)[5]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 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.
♦ 2Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012).
♦ 3Myers, 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
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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