Heterandria Agassiz 1853
Creators: name: Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco
name: Reis, Roberto E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Heterandria

description: <i>Heterandria</i> Agassiz <i>Heterandria</i> Agassiz, 1853: 135. Type species: <i>Heterandria formosa</i> Girard, 1859. Gender: feminine. Type by subsequent designation by Bailey (1952). <i>Pseudoxiphophorus</i> Bleeker, 1860: 440. Type species: <i>Xiphophorus bimaculatus</i> Heckel, 1848. Gender: masculine. <i>Poeciliodes</i> Steindachner, 1863: 176 [15]. Type species: <i>Poeciliodes bimaculatus</i> Steindachner, 1863. Type by monotypy. Gender: masculine. <b>Composition.</b> <i>Heterandria anzuetoi</i> Rosen &amp; Bailey, <i>H</i>. <i>attenuata</i> Rosen &amp; Bailey, <i>H</i>. <i>bimaculata</i> (Heckel), <i>H</i>. <i>cataractae</i> Rosen, <i>H</i>. <i>dirempta</i> Rosen, <i>H</i>. <i>formosa</i> Girard, <i>H</i>. <i>jonesii</i> (Günther), <i>H</i>. <i>litoperas</i> Rosen &amp; Bailey, and <i>H</i>. <i>obliqua</i> Rosen. <b>Distribution.</b> Southern USA to Nicaragua (Atlantic and Gulf drainages) and Guatemala (Pacific drainage). <b>Tribe Gambusiini + Supertribe Poeciliini</b> [Clade 121] <b>Diagnosis.</b> Members of this clade can be diagnosed by the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) anterior section of posterior remnant of infraorbital system absent or opened, forming a shallow groove [6-0]; (2) mandibular canal absent or opened, forming a very shallow groove [10-1]; (3) medial surface of ascending process of premaxilla angled laterally at proximal end, forming a triangle space between proximal ends of ascending processes [11-2]; (4) anterior border of ventral maxilla straight [14-0]; (5) ascending process of parasphenoids in adults short, not reaching pterosphenoids [20- 1]; (6) adult females with first proximal radial of dorsal fin located between neural arches of 13 th and 14 th vertebrae [63-1]; and (7) nine dorsal-fin rays (males and females) [64-1].
description: Published as part of <i>Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco &amp; Reis, Roberto E., 2005, Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, pp. 1-60 in Neotropical Ichthyology 3 (1)</i> on page 40, DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252005000100001, http://zenodo.org/record/5417369
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