Family Anablepidae - Four-eyed fishes, onesided livebearers & white-eye
  Order
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Anablepidae
  Class
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Teleostei
No. in FishBase
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Genera : 3 | Species : 19 Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes
  Environment
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Fresh : Yes | Brackish : Yes | Marine : Yes
  Division
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Secondary freshwater
  Aquarium
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some
  First Fossil Record
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  Remark
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Four-eyed fishes, onesided livebearers & the white eye are chiefly freshwater and brackish; rarely coastal marine and distributed from southern Mexico to southern South America. Epiotic and supraoccipital robust; pelvic fins distinctly behind tip of pectoral fin; pectoral girdle set low on side; radials situated ventrally or posteriorly. In Anablepinae eyes prominently raised above top of head; each eye divided lengthwise into upper and lower parts giving rise to two pupils each for the right and left eyes; individuals swim with center of eye aligned with the water level and are capable of double vision. Anal fin turned into tubelike gonopodium. Gonopodium and female genital aperture either dextral or sinistral. Males and females divided equally into sinistral and dextral mating types. Viviparous. Oxyzygonectes is oviparous. Maximum length 32 cm in Anablepinae, 12 cm in Jenynsiinae.
  Etymology
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Greek, ana = up, back, again + Greek, blepo = to look at, watch ( Ref. 45335).
  Reproductive guild
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bearers
  Typical activity level
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  Coordinator
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  Deep Fin Classification
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Osteichthyes | Actinopterygii | Actinopteri | Neopterygii | Teleostei | Osteoglossocephalai | Clupeocephala | Euteleosteomorpha | Neoteleostei | Eurypterygia | Ctenosquamata | Acanthomorphata | Acanthopterygii | Percomorphaceae | Ovalentaria | | Cichlomorphae | Cyprinodontiformes | Cyprinodontoidei | | Anablepidae

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Ref.
[ e.g. 9948]
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[ e.g. cephalopods]


Species/Synonymy list for the family Anablepidae as currently in FishBase

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Scientifc name Status Senior/Junior synonym Combination
Anablepinae
Anableps anableps (Linnaeus, 1758)
acceptedseniornew
Cobitis anableps Linnaeus, 1758
synonymseniororiginal
Anableps anableps Meuschen, 1778
ambiguousotheroriginal
synonymjuniororiginal
Anableps surinamensis Lacepède, 1803
synonymjuniororiginal
Anableps gronovii Valenciennes, 1846
synonymjuniororiginal
Anableps lineatus Gronow, 1854
synonymjuniororiginal
Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel, 1844
acceptedseniororiginal
Anableps coarctatus Valenciennes, 1846
synonymjuniororiginal
Anableps elongatus Valenciennes, 1846
synonymjuniororiginal
Anableps dowii Gill, 1861
acceptedseniororiginal
! Anableps dowei Gill, 1861
synonymseniororiginal
! Anableps dowi Gill, 1861
synonymseniororiginal
Jenynsia lineata (Jenyns, 1842)
acceptedseniornew
synonymseniorchange in rank
Lebias lineata Jenyns, 1842
synonymseniororiginal
Fitzroyia lineata (Jenyns, 1842)
synonymseniornew
Lebias multidentata Jenyns, 1842
synonymjuniororiginal
Fitzroyia multidentata (Jenyns, 1842)
synonymjuniornew
Jenynsia multidentata (Jenyns, 1842)
synonymjuniornew
Poecilia punctata Valenciennes, 1846
synonymjuniororiginal
Xiphophorus heckelii Weyenbergh, 1874
synonymjuniororiginal
Fitzroyia lineata maculata (non Regan, 1906)
misappliedmisappliedmisapplied
Jenynsia maculata (non Regan, 1906)
misappliedmisappliedoriginal
Jenynsia obscura (Weyenbergh, 1877)
acceptedseniornew
Xiphophorus obscurus Weyenbergh, 1877
synonymseniororiginal
Jenynsia pygogramma Boulenger, 1902
synonymjuniororiginal
Jenynsia maculata Regan, 1906
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia eigenmanni (Haseman, 1911)
acceptedseniornew
Fitzroyia eigenmanni Haseman, 1911
synonymseniororiginal
acceptedseniornew
synonymseniororiginal
Jenynsia eirmostigma Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1995
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia unitaenia Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1995
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia sanctaecatarinae Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1996
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia weitzmani Ghedotti, Meisner & Lucinda, 2001
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia onca Lucinda, Reis & Quevedo, 2002
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia tucumana Aguilera & Mirande, 2005
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia diphyes Lucinda, Ghedotti & da Graça, 2006
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia luxata Aguilera, Mirande, Calviño & Lobo, 2013
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia darwini Amorim, 2018
acceptedseniororiginal
Jenynsia sulfurica Aguilera, Terán, Mirande, Alonso, Rometsch, Meyer & Torres-Dowdall, 2019
acceptedseniororiginal
Oxyzygonectinae
Oxyzygonectes dovii (Günther, 1866)
acceptedseniornew
Haplochilus dovii Günther, 1866
synonymseniororiginal
! Oxyzygonectes dowi (Günther, 1866)
synonymseniornew
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