Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Insitution, 9: Family Poeciliidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology. Number 604

摘要

The known type specimens of poeciliid fishes in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, published through 1996 are listed. These include approximately 7,707 specimens in 214 lots, including 29 holotype, 2 neotype, 2 lectotype, 29 syntype, and 152 paratype or paralectotype lots of 109 nominal species and subspecies. Of these, 43 specimens in 16 lots, including 1 holotype, 7 syntype, 1 lectotype, and 7 paratype lots of 14 nominal species are listed herein but are missing from the collection. The listing is arranged alphabetically by current subfamily (following Parenti, 1981), original genus, subgenus, species, and subspecies names. Information for each entry includes genus, subgenus (if any), and species and subspecies (if any) names; author and date of publication; page(s) of original description; figures and plates (if any); current type status; USNM catalog number; number of specimens of adult females, adult males, and juveniles or immature specimens of either sex; a range of standard lengths; locality; collector and date collected; and remarks that include clarification of information in the entry as well as pertinent information on other type material.