Stippled studfish

The Stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama. It belongs to the genus Fundulus in the killifish and topminnow family, Fundulidae.

Stippled studfish

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Fundulidae
Genus: Fundulus
Species:
F. bifax
Binomial name
Fundulus bifax
Cashner & Rogers, 1988.

References

  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2010). "Fundulus bifax" in FishBase. January 2010 version.
  • "Stippled Studfish". Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin. Outdoor Alabama. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  • Cashner, R.C., J.S. Rogers and J.M. Grady 1988 Fundulus bifax, a new species of the subgenus Xenisma from the Tallapoosa and Coosa river systems of Alabama and Georgia. Copeia (3):674-683.
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