WoRMS taxon details
Poecilia parae Eigenmann, 1894
307990 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:307990)
accepted
Species
Acanthophacelus melanzonus Eigenmann, 1909 · unaccepted (synonym)
Micropoecilia amazonica (Garman, 1895) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Micropoecilia melanzona (Eigenmann, 1909) · unaccepted
Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894) · unaccepted
Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895 · unaccepted (synonym)
Poecilia melanzona (Eigenmann, 1909) · unaccepted
Poecilia vivipara parae Eigenmann, 1894 · unaccepted
Eigenmann, C. H. (1894). Notes on some South American fishes. [A. Fishes collected by Frederick C. Hartt. B. Notes on fishes collected by Dr. H. von Ihering, at Rio Grande do Sul.]. <em>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.</em> v. 7 (art. 5): 625-637. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Poecilia parae Eigenmann, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=307990 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Eigenmann, C. H. (1894). Notes on some South American fishes. [A. Fishes collected by Frederick C. Hartt. B. Notes on fishes collected by Dr. H. von Ihering, at Rio Grande do Sul.]. <em>Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.</em> v. 7 (art. 5): 625-637. [details]
original description (of Acanthophacelus melanzonus Eigenmann, 1909) Eigenmann, C. H. (1909). Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. <em>Annals of the Carnegie Museum.</em> v. 6 (no. 1): 4-54. [details]
original description (of Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895) Garman, S. (1895). The cyprinodonts. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> v. 19 (pt 1): 1-179, Pls. 1-12. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Acanthophacelus melanzonus Eigenmann, 1909) Eigenmann, C. H. (1909). Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. <em>Annals of the Carnegie Museum.</em> v. 6 (no. 1): 4-54. [details]
original description (of Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895) Garman, S. (1895). The cyprinodonts. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> v. 19 (pt 1): 1-179, Pls. 1-12. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Micropoecilia melanzona (Eigenmann, 1909))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Poecilia vivipara parae Eigenmann, 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Acanthophacelus melanzonus Eigenmann, 1909)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poecilia parae)
To FishBase (from synonym Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895)
To FishBase images (Micropoecilia parae, by Slaboch, R.) (from synonym Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894))
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 98 proteins) (from synonym Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894))
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 98 proteins)
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 98 proteins) (from synonym Poecilia vivipara parae Eigenmann, 1894)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Poecilia amazonica RAD101987-001) (from synonym Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Poecilia amazonica RAD101987-001) (from synonym Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Micropoecilia melanzona (Eigenmann, 1909))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Poecilia vivipara parae Eigenmann, 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Acanthophacelus melanzonus Eigenmann, 1909)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poecilia parae)
To FishBase (from synonym Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895)
To FishBase images (Micropoecilia parae, by Slaboch, R.) (from synonym Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894))
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 98 proteins) (from synonym Micropoecilia parae (Eigenmann, 1894))
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 98 proteins)
To GenBank (92 nucleotides; 98 proteins) (from synonym Poecilia vivipara parae Eigenmann, 1894)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Poecilia amazonica RAD101987-001) (from synonym Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Poecilia amazonica RAD101987-001) (from synonym Poecilia amazonica Garman, 1895)
To ITIS
