Aquarist Atlas · livebearers

Every livebearer on one map

11,542 georeferenced records across 380 species, drawn over the two homelands of the live-bearing fishes — the Americas, from the springs of the Mexican plateau and the US South through Central America and the Caribbean to the Paraná south, and South-East Asia, where the viviparous halfbeaks branched off on their own. Colour the cloud by family — the dominant Poeciliidae (guppies, mollies, platies, swordtails), the highland-Mexican Goodeidae, the four-eyed Anablepidae and the Asian Zenarchopteridae — or switch to compare mode and read two species’ ranges against each other. Feral and introduced records outside the native range are filtered out.

About this map. Scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, and click a dot to identify the species. The 11,542 dots are real occurrence records pulled from GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility — an aggregator of museum specimens, scientific surveys and verified citizen-science sightings — queried for both each fish’s current name and its genus combination, and clipped to the families’ native ranges in the Americas and South-East Asia. Treat them as a guide to where a species lives, not exact spots: many records are georeferenced to a locality centroid (a nearby town or river mouth) rather than the precise catch site, some are historical or low-precision, and the occasional point may be a misidentification. No coordinates are invented — but any single dot can sit a little off.

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