Biology:Profundulus

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Profundulus
Guatemalan Killifish Fundulopanchax gardneri.jpg
Profundulus guatemalensis
Profundulus kreiseri, USM 39022, holotype.png
Profundulus kreiseri
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Profundulidae
Genus: Profundulus
C. L. Hubbs, 1924
Type species
Fundulus punctatus
Günther, 1866[1]

Profundulus is a genus of fish in the family Profundulidae endemic to Mexico and northern Central America.[2] It was regarded as the only genus in the Profundulidae[3] but workers have split the genus and raised a second genus Tlaloc.[2][4]

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Profundulus adani Sara E. Dominguez-Cisneros, 2021 [5]
  • Profundulus balsanus C. G. E. Ahl, 1935 (Balsas killifish) [6]
  • Profundulus candalarius Hubbs, 1924 (Headwater killifish)
  • Profundulus chimalapensis Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano, 2020[7]
  • Profundulus guatemalensis (Günther, 1866) (Guatemalan killifish)
  • Profundulus hildebrandi R. R. Miller, 1950 (Chiapas killifish)
  • Profundulus kreiseri Matamoros, J. F. Schaefer, C. L. Hernández & Chakrabarty, 2012 (Kreiser's killifish) [8]
  • Profundulus labialis (Günther, 1866) (Largelip killifish)
  • Profundulus mixtlanensis Ornelas-García, Martínez-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2015 [9]
  • Profundulus oaxacae (Meek, 1902)
  • Profundulus portillorum Matamoros & Schaefer, 2010
  • Profundulus punctatus (Günther, 1866) (Oaxaca killifish)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Profundulus". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=7640. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Profundulus in FishBase. June 2016 version.
  3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 372. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/. 
  4. Morcillo, F.; Ornelas-García, C.P.; Alcaraz, L.; Matamoros, W.A.; Doadrio, I. (2015). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Mesoamerican endemic freshwater fish family Profundulidae (Cyprinodontiformes: Actinopterygii)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94 (Part. A): 242–251. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.002. PMID 26364972. 
  5. Dominguez-Cisneros, Sara E, Ernesto Velázquez-Velázquez, Caleb D. McMahan, Wilfredo A. Matamoros; A new species of killifish of the genus Profundulus (Atherinomorpha: Profundulidae) from the upper reaches of the Papaloapan River in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 2021. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 109(4):949–957
  6. Jamangapé O, J.A., Velázquez-Velázquez, E., Martínez-Ramirez, E., Anzueto-Calvo, M.J., Gomez, E.L., Dominguez-Cisneros, S.E., McMahan, C.D. & Matamoros, W.A. (2016): Validity and Redescription of Profundulus balsanus Ahl, 1935 (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae). Zootaxa, 4173 (1): 55–65.
  7. Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano; Profundulus chimalapensis, una nueva especie de pez ciprinodóntido (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae) del Río Coatzacoalcos, México | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40340/44229
  8. Matamoros, W.A., Schaefer, J.F., Hernández, C.L. & Chakrabarty, P. (2012): Profundulus kreiseri, a new species of Profundulidae (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from northwestern Honduras. ZooKeys, 227: 49–62.
  9. Ornelas-García, C.P., Martínez-Ramírez, E. & Doadrio, I. (2015): A new species of killifish of the family Profundulidae from the highlands of the Mixteca region, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 86 (4): 926–933.

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