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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Toothcarps
  6. Livebearers and Lampeyes
  7. Live-bearers

subfamily

Live-bearers

Poeciliinae

Includes
5 native 10 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Mosquitofishes 4 native
  • Least Killifishes 1 native
  • Swordtails
  • Pseudoxiphophorus
  • Pike Killifishes
  • Desert Topminnows
  • Mollies

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native live-bearers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Western Mosquitofish Gambusia affinis 21,311 observations
  • Eastern Mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki 16,942 observations
  • Least Killifish Heterandria formosa 1,106 observations
  • Largespring Gambusia Gambusia geiseri 232 observations
  • Big Bend Gambusia Gambusia gaigei 43 observations
  • Sonora Topminnow Poeciliopsis sonoriensis 28 observations

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