Heterandria formosa, Least killifish : aquarium

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Heterandria formosa (Girard, 1859)

Least killifish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Cyprinodontiformes (Rivulines, killifishes and live bearers) > Poeciliidae (Poeciliids) > Poeciliinae
Etymology: Heterandria: Greek, heteros = other + Greek, andros = male (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Girard.

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

Freshwater; brackish; benthopelagic; pH range: 7.0 - 8.0; dH range: 9 - 19; non-migratory. Tropical; 20°C - 26°C (Ref. 1672); 35°N - 25°N

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North America: occurs only in the USA from Cape Fear River drainage in North Carolina to southern Louisiana.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 1.1, range 1 - 1.4 cm
Max length : 3.6 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 5723); common length : 2.1 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Adults inhabit heavily vegetated standing to slow-flowing fresh and brackish water. They feed on worms, crustaceans and plant matter (Ref. 7020). A truly viviparous fish (Ref. 45952).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

A truly viviparous fish, embryo derives nearly all of its nourishment from the mother (Ref. 45952).

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Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 1991. A field guide to freshwater fishes of North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 432 p. (Ref. 5723)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 14 February 2012

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Aquarium: commercial
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AFORO (otoliths) | Alien/Invasive Species database | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | GoMexSI (interaction data) | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | Public aquariums | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.6250   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00517 - 0.01933), b=3.09 (2.93 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  2.7   ±0.22 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (tm = 0.13; tmax = 0.33; Batch Fec = 1-7;).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).