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Freshly collected male of Poeciliopsis turrubarensis from Rio Abangaritos [Costa Rica]. Photo by Michi Tobler. determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Poeciliidae

Genus
Poeciliopsis

Last updated on:
28-Nov-2012

Poeciliopsis turrubarensis (Meek, 1912)

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Original description as Gambusia turrubarensis:

ZooBank:826BB6C7-61AA-457E-A9B0-11097CE76AC5.

Meek, Seth Eugene. 1912. "New species of fishes from Costa Rica". Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series. 10(7):69-75 (ffm00036)

Synonyms (1):

Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912, with type locality at Brackish water, mouth of Río Dagua, Colombia. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963
Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925, with type locality at Río Lempa, San Marcos, El Salvador. Determiner: Rosen & Bailey, 1963

Conservation: Poeciliopsis turrubarensis is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2019).