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Limia Melanogaster Jamaica Distribution Map
''Limia'' is a genus of livebearing fishes belonging to the Cyprinodontiform family Poeciliidae. It comprises 22 described species found in fresh, brackish, saltwater, and hypersaline habitats of the Greater Antilles islands in the Caribbean Sea. A vast majority are endemic to Hispaniola. There has been a long-running debate on whether ''Limia'' should be considered a subgenus of ''Poecilia'' rather than a full genus. Most ''Limia'' species are detrivores and herbivores. Due to their small size and coloring, they are sometimes kept in home aquaria. Taxonomy The genus ''Limia'' belongs to Poecilidae, the most abundant and species-rich family of freshwater fish on the Greater Antilles. The generic name ''Limia'', derived from Latin, refers to the muddy habitat of the type species, '' L. vittata''. The genus was established in 1854 by Poey. Rosen and Bailey made it a subgenus of the genus ''Poecilia'' in their major reclassification of the poeciliid genera in 1963. Rivas, am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limia Tridens
''Limia tridens'', common name, commonly known as the Tiburon limia, is a poeciliid fish endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. ''L. tridens'' is found in the lakes, streams, and springs of the lower Artibonite River system, the Neiba Valley, and the streams of both slopes of the Tiburon Peninsula in south-western Haiti. Males grow to about in standard length. References Limia, tridens Vertebrates of Haiti, Limia tridens Taxa named by Franz Martin Hilgendorf, Limia tridens Fish described in 1889, Limia tridens {{Poeciliidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically evolved to feed on plants, especially upon vascular tissues such as foliage, fruits or seeds, as the main component of its diet. These more broadly also encompass animals that eat non-vascular autotrophs such as mosses, algae and lichens, but do not include those feeding on decomposed plant matters (i.e. detritivores) or macrofungi (i.e. fungivores). As a result of their plant-based diet, herbivorous animals typically have mouth structures ( jaws or mouthparts) well adapted to mechanically break down plant materials, and their digestive systems have special enzymes (e.g. amylase and cellulase) to digest polysaccharides. Grazing herbivores such as horses and cattles have wide flat- crowned teeth that are better adapted for grinding grass, tree bark and other tougher lignin-containing materials, and many of them evolved rumination or cecotropic behaviors to better extract nutrients from plants. A larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girardinus
''Girardinus'' is a genus of poeciliids native to Cuba. The name of this genus honours the French people, French zoologist Charles Frédéric Girard (1822-1895) for his work on the freshwater fish of North America. Species There are currently seven recognized species in this genus: * ''Girardinus creolus'' Samuel Garman, Garman, 1895 (Creole topminnow) * ''Girardinus cubensis'' (Carl H. Eigenmann, C. H. Eigenmann, 1903) (Cuban topminnow) * ''Girardinus denticulatus'' Samuel Garman, Garman, 1895 (Toothy topminnow) * ''Girardinus falcatus'' (Carl H. Eigenmann, C. H. Eigenmann, 1903) (Goldbelly topminnow) * ''Girardinus metallicus'' Felipe Poey y Aloy, Poey, 1854 (Metallic livebearer) * ''Girardinus microdactylus'' Luis René Rivas, Rivas, 1944 (Smallfinger topminnow) * ''Girardinus uninotatus'' Felipe Poey y Aloy, Poey, 1860 (Singlespot topminnow) References Girardinus, Poeciliidae Fish of Central America Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Felipe Poey Ray-finned fish ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambusia
''Gambusia'' is a large genus of viviparous fish in the family Poeciliidae (order Cyprinodontiformes). ''Gambusia'' contains over 40 species, most of which are principally found in freshwater habitats, though some species may also be found in brackish or saltwater habitats. The genus ''Gambusia'' comes from the Cuban term, "Gambusino", which means "free-lance miner". The type species is the Cuban gambusia, ''G. punctata''. The greatest species richness is in Mexico, Texas, and the Greater Antilles, but species are also found elsewhere in the eastern and southern United States, the Bahamas, Central America, and Colombia. ''Gambusia'' species are often called topminnows, or simply gambusias; they are also known as mosquitofish, which, however, refers more specifically to two species, '' G. affinis'' and '' G. holbrooki'', which are often introduced into ponds to eat mosquito larvae. As a consequence, they have been introduced widely outside their native range, and frequently become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TFH Publications
TFH Publications is an American book publisher based in New Jersey. It specializes in books about pets. In 1997 the owner, Herbert R. Axelrod sold the company to Central Garden & Pet Company of California for $70 million. Its publications include the ''Tropical Fish Hobbyist ''Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine'' (abbreviated as ''TFH Magazine'') is a bimonthly magazine for hobbyist keepers of tropical fish, with news and information on a variety of topics concerning freshwater and marine aquariums. The magazine was fir ... Magazine''. References External linksOfficial website Book publishing companies based in New Jersey {{Publish-corp-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Fish Hobbyist
''Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine'' (abbreviated as ''TFH Magazine'') is a bimonthly magazine for hobbyist keepers of tropical fish, with news and information on a variety of topics concerning freshwater and marine aquariums. The magazine was first published in September 1952. The magazine is based in Neptune City, New Jersey. It is published by TFH Publications, which publishes books relating to the care aquarium fish and pets. Significant publications Significant articles published in ''Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine'' include the 1956 scientific description of the cardinal tetra by Leonard Peter Schultz. Noted authors Several established and well known ichthyologists, hobbyists, and experts have published works in TFH Magazine, including: * Herbert Axelrod *Leonard Peter Schultz Leonard Peter Schultz (1901–1986) was an American ichthyologist. Biography Schultz was born in 1901, at Albion, Michigan. He received education on ichthyology at Albion College, in which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reeve Maclaren Bailey
Reeve Maclaren Bailey (May 2, 1911, in Fairmont, West Virginia – July 2, 2011, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American ichthyologist. Born in West Virginia, Bailey was raised in Perrysburg and Toledo, Ohio. In 1944, he returned to University of Michigan as a curator of fishes at the Museum of Zoology. He conducted extensive field research in the U.S., Bermuda, Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay, Zambia, and Thailand. Bailey was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ... in 1938. Bailey was the president of the American Fisheries Society in 1974–1975. Personal life In 1939, Bailey married Marian Kregel. They had four children. She predeceased him in 2009. He died in 2011, aged 100, and was survived by his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donn Eric Rosen
Donn Eric Rosen (1929-1986) was a member of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History. He was a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Family Born to immigrants Irwin Rosen (b. 1885) and Anita Gerber Rosen (b. 1906), Rosen has an older brother: Charles Welles. Both his parents were born in Russia. Irwin came to the United States in 1889 and had a career in architecture. Anita arrived in the United States prior to 1920. Donn E. Rosen married Carmela Berritto, and they had three sons, one of whom, Philip Clark Rosen (1955-2020) was a herpetologist and ecologist, who spent many years studying the Sonoran Desert. Works Rosen earned his degree in 1955, his master's in 1957, and his doctorate in 1959, all from New York University. In 1961 he joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, and was chairman of the department of ichthyology from 1965 to 1975, presiding over a collection that grew from 500,000 to 1.5 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Poey
Felipe Poey (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist. Biography Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his freethought, liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France. Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842, he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana. He also took part in the creation of the Academy of Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limia Vittata
The Cuban limia (''Limia vittata''), also known as banded limia, Cuban molly, Cuban topminnow or tabai is a species of Ovovivipary, livebearing freshwater fish from the Family (Biology), family Poeciliidae. The species is native to Cuba where it was Endemism, endemic but it has been introduced to Hawaii. Description The Cuban limia is olive-green in background colour and has a bluish-grey back, silvery flanks marked with black-edged scales and a white belly. There is a yellow patch close to the vent in fenmles. In the males have the dorsal fin and the anal fin are normally yellow-orange in colour marked with blue-black spots. The females have colorless fins which are marked with a few scattered, black freckles. The females grow to over twice the size of the males which can have a Fish measurement, total length of , and females reach . In structure it is a rather robust species, depressed towards the rear with a rounded tail and it has a compressed head which has a small, oblique m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological Type (biology), type wiktionary:en:specimen, specimen (or specimens). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name with that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habitat
In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ecological niche. Thus "habitat" is a species-specific term, fundamentally different from concepts such as Biophysical environment, environment or vegetation assemblages, for which the term "habitat-type" is more appropriate. The physical factors may include (for example): soil, moisture, range of temperature, and Luminous intensity, light intensity. Biotic index, Biotic factors include the availability of food and the presence or absence of Predation, predators. Every species has particular habitat requirements, habitat generalist species are able to thrive in a wide array of environmental conditions while habitat specialist species require a very limited set of factors to survive. The habitat of a species is not necessarily found in a ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
