Common name of Poecilia reticulata
 
Common name Guppy
Language English
Type Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 3 - (Other common name)
Country United Kingdom
Locality
Ref. Blanc, M., J.-L. Gaudet, P. Banarescu and J.-C. Hureau, 1971
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core person (eponym)
1st modifier
2nd modifier
Remarks 'guppy', i.e., after Robert John Lechmere Guppy a Trinidadian naturalist (died 1916; Ref. 27888) who sent the first living specimens of Poecilia to the British Museum in the 1860s (Ref. 7020). Also Ref. 54735.
 
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