| Family: |
Poeciliidae (Poeciliids), subfamily: Poeciliinae |
| Max. size: |
7 cm SL (male/unsexed); 6 cm TL (female) |
| Environment: |
demersal; freshwater; pH range: 6 - 8; dH range: 9 - 19, non-migratory |
| Distribution: |
Central America: Atlantic drainages, from southern Guatemala to Costa Rica and Panama. |
| Diagnosis: |
Robust body gray with bluish highlights, deep and almost rhomboid. Males with very long gonopodium that reaches the base of the tail; together with the young, with 6 - 8 dark bars (diffused in females) (Ref. 36880). |
| Biology: |
Occurs mainly in stagnant waters, creeks and river shorelines, over soft bottoms. On the Atlantic versant it lives between 0 and 500 m of elevation, but in the northern Pacific sector is found between 10 and 45 m in the Tempisque and Bebedero drainages; in the Río Tárcoles drainage, where it was probably introduced, it lives between 670 and 1220 m elevation. Inhabits shallow waters with mud or litter substrata in temperatures of 20 to 37°C. Feeds on ooze, detritus, diatoms and occasionally on filamentous algae and aquatic insects (Ref. 36880). |
| IUCN Red List Status: |
Least Concern (LC); Date assessed: 12 August 2019 Ref. (130435)
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| Threat to humans: |
harmless |
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