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orri, Poecilia Fowler [H. W.] 1943:1, Figs. 1-3 [Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia) No. 117; ref. 13201] Lagoon and salt water ditch on Bonacca Island, Bay Islands, off northern Honduras. Holotype: ANSP 70158. Paratypes: AMNH 29835SW [ex ANSP 70161] (1, c&s); ANSP 70159-60 (2), 70161 (now 0), 70162 (1), 70163-69 (7). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:144 [ref. 13621]. Needs redescription -- (Meyer et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26721]). •Synonym of Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes 1846 -- (Rosen & Bailey 1963:53 [ref. 7067]). •Valid as Poecilia orri Fowler 1943 -- (Greenfield 1990:450 [ref. 16548], Gamboa Pérez 1992:316 [ref. 38704], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:50 [ref. 22290], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:124 [ref. 22947], Rodriguez 1997:673 [ref. 23266], Poeser 2003:147 [ref. 26783], Ghedotti & Wiley 2003:1157 [ref. 27019], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:568 [ref. 27061], Smith et al. 2003:16 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:104 [ref. 27807], Lucinda & Reis 2005:45 [ref. 29205], Miller 2006:237 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2007:17 [ref. 30398], Matamoros et al. 2009:14 [ref. 31241], Poeser 2011:420 [ref. 31550], Page et al. 2013:110 [ref. 32708], Meyer 2015:243 [ref. 34698], Ho et al. 2016:Fig. 1 [ref. 34400] in subgenus Mollienesia, Palacios et al. 2016:232 [ref. 34629] in subgenus Mollienesia, DoNascimiento et al. 2017:102 [ref. 35633], Huber 2019:111 [ref. 36941], Angulo et al. 2023:61 [ref. 40676]). Current status: Valid as Poecilia orri Fowler 1943. Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Southern North America and central America: eastern Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, northern Honduras, Belize, and offshore islands (Belize, Colombia, Honduras and Mexico). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.


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