Poecilia latipinna

** Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821). Sailfin Molly. To 15 cm (5.9 in) TL (Moyle 2002). Native to southern Atlantic United States and Gulf of Mexico, now introduced into much of warmer Pacific Rim. In California, known from Salton Sea, Ballona Marsh (Los Angeles County), intertidal wetlands of San...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Poecilia
Poecilia latipinna
Milton
Pacific
Yukon
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5603752
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603752
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Summary:** Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821). Sailfin Molly. To 15 cm (5.9 in) TL (Moyle 2002). Native to southern Atlantic United States and Gulf of Mexico, now introduced into much of warmer Pacific Rim. In California, known from Salton Sea, Ballona Marsh (Los Angeles County), intertidal wetlands of San Diego Bay, southern California (Williams et al. 1998), and other sloughs and estuaries in Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties (Moyle 2002). Shallow marine waters and freshwaters (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 97, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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