Aquarist Atlas
Livebearers · names

Every name, resolved

Livebearers travel under several names at once. A scientific binomial under the Catalog of Fishes; an English common or trade name; and — because so many are kept by population rather than by species alone — a wild locality or strain label like “Campoma” or “Endler”. This index cross-references all three — the 383 scientific names, 2 locality forms, and 570 common names — and resolves each one to its species page.

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Scientific name — the valid binomial under the Catalog of Fishes. Common name — English vernacular and trade names recorded for the species. Locality / strain — the wild-collection locality or line label the hobby keeps a population by; for the threatened goodeids, a locality is often the unit that conservation breeding works to preserve.

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