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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Goodeidae (Splitfins) > Goodeinae
Etymology: Xenotaenia: Greek, xenos = strange + latin, taenia, -ae = strip (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; demersal. Tropical; 22°C - 25°C (Ref. 2060)

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Central America: restricted to the Purificación and Marabasco river basins, on the Pacific slope of west-central Mexico.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2060); 5.0 cm TL (female)

In small creeks with dense vegetation; feeds on algae.

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Females can get young every 2 months.

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Lyons, J., 1997. Morphological variation within Xenotaenia resolanae (Pisces: Goodeidae), a little-known species endemic to the Pacific slope of west-central México. Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 7(3-4):267-272. (Ref. 26133)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Vulnerable (VU) (B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv)+2ab(i,ii,iii,iv)); Date assessed: 14 March 2018

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest; aquarium: commercial

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Xenotaenia resolanae Turner, 1946