Common name of Poecilia reticulata
 
Nome Comune Guppies
Language English
Tipo Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 2 - (Preferred common name (unique))
Paese Trinidad and Tobago
Località
Fonte Biblio. Kenny, J.S., 1995
Stadio vitale juveniles and adults
Sesso 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).
 
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