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Limia Poey, 1854
Taxonomic Serial No.: 165944

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
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	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2004

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Acanthopterygii
	Order	Cyprinodontiformes Berg, 1940 – cyprinodonts, cyprinodontiforms, cyprinodontes, killifishes
	Suborder	Cyprinodontoidei – cyprinodontoids
	Family	Poeciliidae Garman, 1895 – livebearers, topminnows, poecilies, topotes y espadas, poeciliids, livebearing toothcarps
	Subfamily	Poeciliinae Garman, 1895 – livebearers
	Genus	Limia Poey, 1854
		Direct Children:
	Species	Limia caymanensis Rivas and Fink, 1970
	Species	Limia dominicensis (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846)
	Species	Limia fuscomaculata Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia garnieri Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia grossidens Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia heterandria Regan, 1913
	Species	Limia immaculata Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia melanogaster (Günther, 1866) – black-bellied limia, black-bellied limia, blackbelly limia
	Species	Limia melanonotata Nichols and Myers, 1923
	Species	Limia miragoanensis Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia nigrofasciata Regan, 1913
	Species	Limia ornata Regan, 1913 – ornate limia, ornate limia
	Species	Limia pauciradiata Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia perugiae (Evermann and Clark, 1906)
	Species	Limia rivasi Franz and Burgess, 1983
	Species	Limia sulphurophila Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia tridens (Hilgendorf, 1889)
	Species	Limia versicolor (Günther, 1866) – olive limia, olive limia, varicolored limia
	Species	Limia vittata (Guichenot, 1853) – striped mudfish, banded limia, Cuban limia, fanguillo, striped mudfish
	Species	Limia yaguajali Rivas, 1980
	Species	Limia zonata (Nichols, 1915)

References


	Expert(s):
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	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)
	Acquired:	2004
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Limia

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Limia

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Limia

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Ghedotti, Michael J.
	Publication Date:	1999
	Article/Chapter Title:	Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the poecilioid fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 130, no. 1
	Page(s):	1-53
	Publisher:	The Linnean Society of London
	Publication Place:	London, England
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	Reference for:	Limia

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, Joseph S.
	Publication Date:	1994
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	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Fishes of the World, Third Edition
	Page(s):	xvii + 600
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-54713-1
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	Reference for:	Limia

Geographic Information


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Comments


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