Species: Poecilia rivasi, Rivas’ Limia, Rivas’ Molly
Poecilia rivasi (Franz & Burgess, 1983)
Rivas’ Limia, Rivas’ Molly
Head and body moderately robust, moderately compressed at rear; head depressed; front nostril not tubular; covering of eye not continuous with skin of head; preoperculum with 7 pores, that do not form an open canal; mouth small, at front, slightly oblique, lower jaw slightly projecting, top jaw protractile; outer teeth strongly compressed, spatula-like; inner teeth 3-pointed; gill rakers 15-18; 1 dorsal fin with short base, at rear of body, 7 rays; anal fin origin distinctly before dorsal fin origin in male, under dorsal fin origin in female, 9 rays; pelvic origin well behind pectoral base, near anal fin; tip of pelvic fin of males swollen, elongate, tip of 2nd ray fleshy, cuved inward, tip of 3rd ray branched; pectorals high on flank, 5th ray not scalloped in male; 3rd anal ray unbranched; anal fin modified in male to form an elongate sex organ, tip of that organ straight, without spines but with an upward directed claw at its tip and with a fleshy palp; tail base relatively narrow; tail fin rounded; scales smooth and relatively large, 25-27 lateral scales.
A dark spot at the rear of the base of the dorsal fin.
Reaches 3.9 cm.
Mangrove swamps.
Depth: 0-1 m.
Known only from Haiti.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- Mangrove
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Detritivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Detritus
- Insects
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- No pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Antilles endemic
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- Island (s) only
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.9
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 1