Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl

Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl, the mountain swordtail, is a live bearing fish in the family Poeciliidae.[2][3] It is endemic to the northwestern Pánuco River basin in Mexico.[4] The specific name of this fish refers to the poet, philosopher and emperor of Texcoco, Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472).[5]

Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Poeciliidae
Genus:	Xiphophorus
Species:	X. nezahualcoyotl
Binomial name
Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl Rauchengerger, Kallman & Morizot, 1990

References

1. Daniels, A. & Maiz-Tome, L. (2019). "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T191789A127376221. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191789A127376221.en.
2. "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 Sep 2012.
3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
4. Kang, J.H.; M. Schartl; R.B. Walter; A. Meyer (2013). "Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of all species of swordtails and platies (Pisces: Genus Xiphophorus) uncovers a hybrid origin of a swordtail fish, Xiphophorus monticolus, and demonstrates that the sexually selected sword originated in the ancestral lineage of the genus, but was lost again secondarily". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (25). doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-25. PMC 3585855.
5. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 9 November 2019.