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Anablepidae
Sign in to saveAnablepidae is a family of ray-finned fishes which live in brackish and freshwater habitats from southern Mexico to southern South America. There are three genera with sixteen species: the four-eyed fishes (genus Anableps), the onesided livebearers (genus Jenynsia) and the white-eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii. Fish of this family eat mostly insects and other invertebrates.
Species
four-eyed fishes, onesided livebearers & white-eye
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCyprinodontiformes
- FamilyAnablepidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Anablepidae
- Collections
- INHS, MPEG
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Image
- Anableps anableps1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Anablepidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Anablepidae
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Anablepidae
- taxon common name
- firøyefiskfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Reproduction
- Subfamilies and genera
- References
- Other References
- External links
Anablepidae is a family of ray-finned fishes which live in brackish and freshwater habitats from southern Mexico to southern South America. There are three genera with sixteen species: the four-eyed fishes (genus Anableps), the onesided livebearers (genus Jenynsia) and the white-eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii. Fish of this family eat mostly insects and other invertebrates.
==Reproduction== Fish in the subfamily Oxyzygonectinae are ovoviviparous. The Anablepinae are livebearers. They mate on one side only, right-"handed" males with left-"handed" females and vice versa. The male has specialized anal rays which are greatly elongated and fused into a tube called a gonopodium associated with the sperm duct which he uses as an intromittent organ to deliver sperm to the female.
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