Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Jawad, Laith, Eagderi, Soheil, Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, Mouludi-Saleh, Atta, Sungur, Sevil & Fricke, Ronald, 2023, Freshwater fishes of Iraq: a revised and updated annotated checklist- 2023, Zootaxa 5357 (1), pp. 1-49 : 30

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scientific name	Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821 )
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Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821) View in CoL [I]—Sailfin molly

Taxonomy. Original description: Mollienesia latipinna Lesueur, 1821a: 3 View in CoL , Pl. 3 [Freshwater ponds in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; lectotype: MNHN B-0929].— Iraq synonyms: None.—Revisions: Miller (2006: 234).—Illustration: Miller (2006: 235, fig. 6.275); Esmaeili (2021: 313, fig. 17.19).

Status in Iraq. First record from Iraq by Kennedy (1937); confirmed by Hussain et al. (2009); Al-Faisal et al. (2014).—Iraq materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Iraq: Somewhere Tigris and Euphrates River drainages.—General distribution: North America: southeastern U.S.A. south to Tuxpan (Veracruz, Mexico); introduced widely elsewhere.—Habitat: This species lives in springs, lakes, and ponds; backwaters and pools of streams; drainage ditches; and salt marshes. Freshwater, brackish.

Economic importance. Valuable for the aquarium trade.

Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

References

Esmaeili, H. R. (2021) Checklist of freshwater fishes of southwestern wetlands of Iran. In: Jawad, L. A. (Ed.), Southern Iraq's Marshes: Their Environment and Conservation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 295 - 318. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 66238 - 7 _ 17

Hussain, N. A., Mohamed, A. M., Al-Noor, S. S., Mutlak, F. M., Abed, I. M. & Coad, B. W. (2009) Structure and ecological indices of fish assemblages in the recently restoed Al-hammar Marsh, southern Iraq. BioRisk, 3, 173 - 186. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / biorisk. 3.11

Kennedy, W. P. (1937) Some additions to the fauna of Iraq. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 39, 745 - 749.

Lesueur, C. A. (1821 a) Description of a new genus, and of several new species of fresh water fish, indigenous to the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 2 (1), 2 - 8.