CYPRINODONTIFORMES 2007

CURRENT NAMES OF KILLIES

This list of all Killifish taxa (historically used names vs. present names) is aimed :

• to help search engines to guide Internet surfers to the appropriate website, including Killi-Data online
• to instantly give aquarists the correspondence between used names and the present name in Killi-Data, and
• to preview part of the contents of Killi-Data online, either freely online in the 'GUEST' section or only available to registered members.

Killifish, the common name for oviparous cyprinodontiformes fishes, are currently classified into 10 families (Huber, 2005 : full details HERE):
- Aplocheilidae, only from India and Madagascar;
- Nothobranchiidae from Africa but Madagascar with 2 subfamilies: Nothobranchiinae and Epiplateinae;
- Rivulidae from Central and South America with 3 subfamilies: Rivulinae, Cynolebiinae and Kryptolebiinae;
- Fundulidae;
- Profundulidae, monotypic (which may be included also in Fundulidae as a subfamily or in Goodeidae as a subfamily, depending on authors);
- Goodeidae, with 2 subfamilies: Empetrichthyinae, oviparous and Goodeinae, viviparous;
- Valenciidae, also monotypic (which may be included also in Fundulidae as a subfamily, depending on authors);
- Cyprinodontidae, with 2 subfamilies: Cubanichthyinae and Cyprinodontinae (with the latter in 3 tribes, Aphaniini, Cyprinodontini and Orestiadini);
- Anablepsidae, with 3 subfamilies: Anablepsinae, viviparous, the monotypic Oxyzygonectinae, oviparous, and Jenynsiinae, viviparous;
- Poeciliidae, with 2 subfamilies: Poeciliinae viviparous (except the monotypic subtribe Tomeurina -or tribe as Tomeurini, depending on authors-, oviparous) and Aplocheilichthyinae oviparous (in 3 tribes, Aplocheilichthyini and Procatopodini in the Old World and the monotypic Fluviphylacini in the New World).
These 10 families are also accepted in international data bases on all fishes, such as Eschmeyer's Catalog and Fishbase, to ensure coherence and universality. The lower levels depend more on authors : a consensus view is selected herein.

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All details for each name are given in the Data Base for which pre-registration is required:
To register, enter the free section of www.killi-data.org by kindly typing your e-mail in the "GUEST" box, then in the tool bar, click on the link REGISTRATION and fill up the form. If you would like, first, to look at an example of the contents of the Data Base, click on SAMPLE.

1. List of all valid Killifish species with the known aquarium populations  
   (click on the link "good SPELLING" in the page or on "AQUAR POP" button in the tool bar !)
   
2. List of valid Killifish species in Killi-Data online, in comparison to the 2 other reference serial-books on Killies, i.e.
   Wildekamp's "World of Killies" and 
   Seegers's "Pictorial Killi-Aqualog" 
   (click on the link "OUTLOOK" in the page or on "NAMES / BOOKS" button in the tool bar and update your books)
   
3. List of valid names and their conservation status, according to their availability in nature (click on the link or the button in the tool bar "CONSERVATION").
   The information is in line with CITES, but it is even more updated and it is dealing with the conservation status of all Killifish, not only those endangered or extinct.

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LAST UPDATE: March 21. 2007
(Note : present names are the mirror of latest scientific published evidence, not of authors' opinion, whoever they are, like everywhere in Killi-Data)

Beware, the automatic translator reverses scientific names : please use the English version to save this list.

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 " * " : the asterisk denotes names that MUST NOT be used anymore (ICZN invalid or rejected or unavailable)
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