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Scientific Name
Poecilia latipinna
Scientific Name w/ Auth.
Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821)
Park
Lake Mead National Recreation Area (LAKE)
Sensitive
No
Park Accepted
Accepted
Record Status
Approved
Park Preferred Common Names
sailfin molly
Park Synonyms
Taxonomic Hierarchy
KingdomAnimalia
SubkingdomBilateria
Infrakingdom Deuterostomia
PhylumChordata
SubphylumVertebrata
Infraphylum Gnathostomata
SuperclassActinopterygii
ClassTeleostei
SuperorderAcanthopterygii
OrderCyprinodontiformes
SuborderCyprinodontoidei
FamilyPoeciliidae
SubfamilyPoeciliinae
GenusPoecilia
SpeciesPoecilia latipinna
Occurrence
Present
Occurrence Notes
Roger's Spring; Data Source: Ross Haley, Wildlife Biologist & Taxa Expert, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 6/2/2011.
Nativeness
Non-native
Nativeness Notes
Data Source: Ross Haley, Wildlife Biologist & Taxa Expert, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 6/2/2011. Legacy NPSpecies information may no longer be applicable, please remove if it is not applicable. In legacy NPSpecies Cultivation value was Not cultivated with comment: Data Source: Ross Haley, Wildlife Biologist & Taxa Expert, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 6/2/2011.
Abundance
Abundant
Abundance Notes
Data Source: Ross Haley, Wildlife Biologist & Taxa Expert, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 6/2/2011.
Seasonality Tags
  • Breeder
    Data Source: Ross Haley, Wildlife Biologist & Taxa Expert, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 6/2/2011.
Threatened Endangered Status
State Species of Concern statuses
Ozone Sensitive Status
NatureServe GRank
NatureServe SRank
Observations
0
References
1
Vouchers
0
External Links
0
Evidence counts shown include evidence for related synonyms.
Created By
Stacy Holt
Created Date
2/7/2008 12:00:00 AM
Last Modified By
Jennifer Stingelin Keefer
Last Modified Date
6/16/2011 12:00:00 AM
Notes
Park Species Detail: Roger's Spring--Deacon et al., 1964. Some Effects of Introduced Fishes on the Native Fish Fauna of Southern Nevada. Copeia. Vol. 1964, No. 2:384-388. NATUREBIB-2170531., Park Species Data Source: Courtenay, W. R. and J. E. Deacon. 1983. Fish introductions in the American southwest: A case history of Rogers Spring, Nevada. The Southwestern Naturalist. 28:221-224. NATUREBIB-651980., Accepted Detail: Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea and J.D. Williams, 2004 Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland.
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