Poecilia Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:452 Fem. Poecilia vivipara Bloch & Schneider 1801. Type by subsequent designation [not by monotypy]. Type designated by Bleeker 1864:140 [ref. 4859]. Spelled Paecilia by McClelland 1839:300 [ref. 2923]. •Valid as Poecilia Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Rosen & Bailey 1963:43, 47 [ref. 7067], Rivas 1978:100 [ref. 8887], Parenti 1981:505 [ref. 7066], Paxton et al. 1989:347 [ref. 12442], Parenti & Rauchenberger 1989:7 [ref. 13538], Malabarba 1989:162 [ref. 14217], Greenfield 1990 [ref. 16548], Poeser 1995:239 [ref. 22070], Rodriguez 1997:672 [ref. 23266], Savvaitova & Reshetnikov 1998:108 [ref. 23592], Poeser 1998:145 [ref. 23812], Parenti 1999:2200 [ref. 24784], Ghedotti 2000:11 [ref. 27228], Ghedotti & Wiley 2003:1156 [ref. 27019], Poeser 2003:356 [ref. 27075], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:566 [ref. 27061], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:179 [ref. 28183], Poeser et al. 2005:97 [ref. 28493], Hoese & Gates 2006:743 [ref. 28997], Lucinda & Reis 2005:45 [ref. 29205], Scharpf 2007:19 [ref. 30398], Schories et al. 2009:44 [ref. 30534], Matsunuma & Motomura 2009:21 [ref. 30966], Coad 2010:255 [ref. 36620], Lucinda et al. 2011:63 [ref. 31137], Poeser 2011:418 [ref. 31550], Meredith et al. 2011:148 [ref. 31575], Marshall 2011:199 [ref. 31755], Bragança et al. 2012:337 [ref. 31747], Preser 2013:36 [ref. 32662], Palacios et al. 2013:1 [ref. 32935], Kottelat 2013:300 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:894 [ref. 34062], McDowall & Stewart 2015:973 [ref. 34275], Ho et al. 2016:32 [ref. 34400], Palacios et al. 2016:232 [ref. 34629], Meyer 2015:277 [ref. 34698], Bertaco et al. 2016:423 [ref. 34561], Esmaeili et al. 2017:92 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:74 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:109 [ref. 35805], Huber 2019:94 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Valid as Poecilia Bloch & Schneider 1801. Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae.