Fundulidae

Fundulus sciadicus

The Fundulidae (Latin: " fundus " = bottom ) are a family of North and Central American Zahnkärpflinge ( Cyprinodontiformes ).

Features

The fish are 3 to 12.5 inches long. The 7-16 fin rays based dorsal fin is above the center of the body, the beginning of their members before or near the anal fin. The anal fin has 9 to 15 soft rays. The maxilla is not straight, but twisted. His inner, ventral to lying part facing forward and is often busy with distinct cusps.

Dissemination

They live in the waters of the North and Central American plains, north to the south-east Canada, Mexico ( Yucatan to ), Cuba and Bermuda. They preferred to keep in heavily vegetated waters. Some species of the genus Fundulus go in brackish water or coastal seawater.

Genera and species

Internal classification of Fundulidae after Ghedotti & Davis:

• Genus Leptolucania, Myers 1924 Leptolucania ommata, ( Jordan 1884)

• Lucania goodei, Jordan 1880
• Lucania parva ( Baird & Girard in Baird 1855)
• Lucania interioris, Hubbs & Miller 1965

• Subgenus Wileyichthys ( Fundulus species of the Pacific coast ) † Fundulus eulepis, Miller 1945 ( Pliocene to Pleistocene, Death Valley )
• Fundulus parvipinnis, Girard 1856
• Fundulus lima Vaillant 1894

• † Fundulus detillae, Hibbard & Dark, 1942 ( Pliocene, western Kansas)
• Fundulus kansae, Girard 1859b
• Fundulus zebrinus, Jordan & Gilbert 1883

• Fundulus chrysotus, ( Günther 1866)
• Fundulus luciae, Baird 1855
• Fundulus xenicus, Jordan & Gilbert 1882
• Fundulus cingulate, Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846
• Fundulus rubrifrons, ( Jordan 1880)
• Fundulus sciadicus, Cope 1865
• Fundulus notatus species group: Fundulus notatus ( Rafinesque 1820)
• Fundulus euryzonus, Suttkus & Cashner 1981

• Fundulus dispar ( Agassiz 1854)
• Fundulus blairae, Wiley & Hall 1975
• Fundulus lineolatus, ( Agassiz 1854),
• Fundulus escambiae, ( Bollman 1887)
• Fundulus nottii, ( Agassiz 1854)

• Fundulus majalis -species-group: Fundulus majalis ( Walbaum, 1792)
• Fundulus persimilis, Miller 1955
• Fundulus similis ( Baird & Girard 1853)

• Fundulus stellifer, ( Jordan 1877)
• Fundulus bifax, Cashner, Rogers & Grady 1988

• Fundulus heteroclitus, Linnaeus 1766
• Fundulus bermudae, Günther 1874
• Fundulus relictus, Able & Felley 1988
• Fundulus philpisteri, Garcia- Ramirez, Contreras - Balderas & Lozano- Vilano 2007
• Fundulus grandis Baird & Girard 1853
• Fundulus grandissimus, Hubbs 1936

• † Fundulus curryi, Miller 1945 ( Pliocene to Pleistocene, Death Valley )
• † Fundulus davidae, Miller 1945 ( Pliocene to Pleistocene, Death Valley )
• † Fundulus lariversi, Lugaski 1977 ( Miocene, central Nevada)
• † Fundulus nevadensis, (Eastman 1917), ( Pliocene, northwestern Nevada)