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Poecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821)

Sailfin molly
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Common names: Bubuntis
Occurrence: introduced
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref:
Importance: of no interest | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Discovered in vast numbers in some saltwater fishponds and salt ponds around Manila Bay in 1929. After 1916, despite orders from Alvin Seale not to distribute the species with the mosquito fish Gambusia affinis, the fish was released in the wild. Found rare in water with salinity as low as 3.1-3.2%, abundant at 3.5% and continues to be so up to 8.7% (its limit of tolerance), entirely disappears at 9.4%. Collected from Obando and Malolos, Bulacan and Malabon. Of no interest for its flesh is bitter. Competes with cultured fish (e.g. Chanos chanos) for algal food ('lab-lab' composed of blue-green algae, diatoms, desmids, filamentous green algae, protozoans and other microscopic animals and ''lumut' or green filamentous algae) that covers the bottom of fishponds (Ref. 12590). Also Ref. 1739, 6096.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/rp.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Herre, A.W.C.T., 1929
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Molliénésie á voilure, Topote velo negro, Lille sejlfinnemolly, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Poeciliidae (Poeciliids) > Poeciliinae
Etymology: Poecilia: Greek, poikilos = with a lot of colours (Ref. 45335);  latipinna: From the latin word latus (stem lat), meaning wide, broad, and pinna for fin (Ref. 79012).
  More on author: Lesueur.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic; non-migratory; depth range 0 - ? m (Ref. 55263).   Subtropical; 20°C - 28°C (Ref. 2060); 40°N - 16°N, 103°W - 76°W (Ref. 55263)

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