Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl

Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Cyprinodontiformes
Family:Poeciliidae
Genus:Xiphophorus
Species: X. nezahualcoyotl
Binomial name
Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
Rauchengerger, Kallman & Morizot, 1990

Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl is a live bearing fish in the Poeciliidae family.[1][2] It is endemic to the northwestern Pánuco River basin in Mexican.[3]

References

  1. "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 Sep 2012.
  2. "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl Rauchenberger, Kallman & Morizot, 1990". FishBase. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  3. Kang, J.H.; M. Schartl; R.B. Walter; A. Meyer (2013). "Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all species of swordtails and platies (Pisces: Genus Xiphophorus) uncovers a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus, and demonstrates that the sexually selected sword originated in the ancestral lineage of the genus, but was lost again secondarily". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (25). doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-25.


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