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Courtship may extend over several days in swordtail characin. [5] The flag-like ornament is used as a food mimic to attract females. [4] [5] The females will try to bite at the ornament, which is then often damaged during courtship and can possibly take up to weeks to regenerate.
Xiphophorus is a genus of euryhaline and freshwater fishes in the family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes, native to Mexico and northern Central America. Xiphophorus species can be divided into 3 groups based on their evolutionary relationships: platyfish (or platies), northern swordtails, and southern swordtails.
Xiphophorus cortezi, the delicate swordtail, is a species of poeciliid fish from Mexico. [2] Named after the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, Xiphophorus cortezi was originally described in 1960 by Donn Eric Rosen as a subspecies of X. montezumae. It was well known in literature prior to the formal scientific description.
The Chiapas swordtail or upland swordtail (Xiphophorus alvarezi) is a species of livebearing freshwater fish of family Poeciliidae, and genus Xiphophorus. It is, therefore, in the same genus as the common platy and the swordtail. The Chiapas swordtail was discovered and first described by Donn E. Rosen in 1960, along with four other species of ...
Xiphophorus montezumae, the Montezuma swordtail, is a livebearing freshwater fish of the order Cyprinodontiformes, family Poeciliidae, and genus Xiphophorus. [2] It is in the same genus as the common platy and the swordtail. Xiphophorus means 'sword-bearer' in Greek.
As with all viviparous fish, be on the lookout for live young, and keep a good gender balance to prevent aggression (Complete Koi advises keeping platies in groups of 3-6 with a 1:3 male-female ...
Xiphophorus nigrensis, the Panuco swordtail, is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae [2] that is endemic to a small part of the Pánuco River basin in Mexico ...
Xiphophorus malinche, also known as highland swordtail, is a live bearing fish in the family Poeciliidae. [2] It is endemic to the Pánuco River basin in east-central Mexico. [ 3 ] This species is named after La Malinche , an Indian slave who played a role in the Spanish conquest as the interpreter, secretary, and mistress of Hernán Cortés .