Perugia's limia

Perugia's limia (Limia perugiae) is a small fish of the family Poeciliidae endemic to the Dominican Republic where it occurs in streams. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.[1] This species was Species description described as Platypoecilus perugiae in 1906 by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark with a type locality given as a small stream in the San Francisco Mountains of the Dominican Republic.[2] The specific name honours the Italian ichthyologist Albert Perugia (1847-1897) of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova in recognition of his work on West Indian fishes.[3]

Perugia's limia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Genus: Limia
Species:
L. perugiae
Binomial name
Limia perugiae
(Evermann & H. W. Clark, 1906)
Synonyms[1]
  • Platypoecilus perugiae Evermann & Clark, 1906
  • Poecilia perugiae (Evermann & Clark, 1906)

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "limia perugiae" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Platypoecilus perugiae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 November 2019.


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