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. |