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Profundulus

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

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Profundulus
Profundulus kreiseri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Profundulidae
Genus: Profundulus
C. L. Hubbs, 1924
Type species
Fundulus punctatus
Günther, 18661

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 Profundulidae3 but workers have split the genus and raised a second genus Tlaloc.24

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, 20207
  • 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

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Profundulus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Profundulus". FishBase. June 2016 version.
  3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 372. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  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.