Onesided livebearer

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Onesided livebearers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Anablepidae
Subfamily: Anablepinae
Genus: Jenynsia
Günther, 1866
Type species
Lebias lineata
Jenyns, 1842
Species

See text.

Jenynsia is a genus of freshwater fishes in the family Anablepidae. Like Anableps species, they are onesided livebearers: they only mate on one side, right-"handed" males with left-"handed" females and vice versa.[1] These fish are viviparous.[2]

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[edit] Distribution

Species of the genus are distributed in the La Plata River Basin and Atlantic coastal drainages from Río Negro Province, Argentina, to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in the Andean drainages of northwest Argentina and southern Bolivia.[2]

[edit] Taxonomy

Jenynsia is the sister group to the genus Anableps and both are classified in the subfamily Anablepinae; together with the genus Oxyzygonectes they compose the family Anablepidae.[3][1] Jenynsia contains two subgenera. Members of the subgenus Plesiojenysia Ghedotti, 1998, are distributed in the uplands of southern Brazil. Members of the subgenus Jenynsia are more widely distributed in southern South America, with one species, J. sanctaecatarinae also found in the uplands of southern Brazil.[2] Members of the two subgenera are partially sympatric in southeastern Brazil.[3]

[edit] Description

Unlike their cousins Anableps, their eyes are normal.[1] Jenynsia species are diagnosable by the possession of an unscaled tubular gonopodium formed chiefly by the third, sixth, and seventh anal-fin rays and by the possession of tricuspid teeth in the outer mandibular series in adults.[3] The maximum length in these species is up to 12 centimetres (5 in) in females and about 4 cm (2 in) in males.[1]

[edit] Species

Subgenera and species according to Ghedotti, 2001 and Lucinda et al., 2006.[2][3]

Subgenus Jenynsia

  • Jenynsia alternimaculata (Fowler, 1940)
  • Jenynsia lineata (Jenyns, 1842)
  • Jenynsia maculata Regan, 1906
  • Rio de la Plata onesided livebearer, Jenynsia multidentata (Jenyns, 1842)
  • Jenynsia onca Lucinda, Reis & Quevedo, 2002
  • Jenynsia pygogramma Boulenger, 1902
  • Jenynsia sanctaecatarinae Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1996
  • Jenynsia tucumana Aguilera & Mirande, 2005[4]

Subgenus Plesiojenynsia Ghedotti, 1998

  • Jenynsia diphyes Lucinda, Ghedotti & Graça, 2006[3]
  • Jenynsia eigenmanni (Haseman, 1911)
  • Jenynsia eirmostigma Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1995
  • Jenynsia unitaenia Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1995
  • Jenynsia weitzmani Ghedotti, Meisner & Lucinda, 2001[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Ghedotti, Michael J.; Meisner, Amy Downing; Lucinda, Paulo H. F. (2001). "New Species of Jenynsia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from Southern Brazil and Its Phylogenetic Relationships". Copeia 2001 (3): 726–736. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2001)001[0726:NSOJTC]2.0.CO;2. 
  3. ^ a b c d e Lucinda, Paulo H. F.; Ghedotti, Michael J.; Graça, Weferson J. (2006). "A New Jenynsia Species (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes, Anablepidae) from Southern Brazil and its Phylogenetic Position". Copeia 2006 (4): 613–622. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2006)6[613:ANJSTC]2.0.CO;2. 
  4. ^ Aguilera, Gastón; Mirande, Juan Marcos (2005). "A new species of Jenynsia (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from northwestern Argentina and its phylogenetic relationships" (PDF). Zootaxa 1096: 29–39. 
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