reticulata, Poecilia Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1859:412 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1859; ref. 18542] Guayre River, Caracas, Venezuela. Syntypes: BMNH 1866.6.6.3 [ex ZMB] (1); ZMB 3468 (9), 3469 (8, lost). Type catalog: Paepke & Seegers 1986:175 [ref. 19981]. •Valid as Lebistes reticulata (Peters 1859) -- (Raju Thomas et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26359]). •Valid as Poecilia reticulata Peters 1859 -- (Rosen & Bailey 1963:56 [ref. 7067], Lee et a, Esmaeili et al. 2017:92 [ref. 35254]l. 1980:550 [ref. 22416], Uyeno & Arai in Masuda et al. 1984:83 [ref. 6441], Paxton et al. 1989:347 [ref. 12442], Paulin et al. 1989:146 [ref. 24556], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:431 [ref. 25598], Page & Burr 1991:234 [ref. 18983], Pethiyagoda 1991:192 [ref. 20075], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:758 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:91 [ref. 23448], Skelton 1993:280 [ref. 24071], McDowall in McDowall 1996:118 [ref. 22909], Coad 1996:85 [ref. 25304], Rodriguez 1997:673 [ref. 23266], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:746 [ref. 24702], Savvaitova & Reshetnikov 1998:108 [ref. 23592], Marquet et al. 1999:43 [ref. 23934], Fricke 1999:114 [ref. 24106], Castro et al. 1998:79 [ref. 24271], Keith et al. 1999:92 [ref. 24548], Rema Devi & Raghunathan 1999:173 [ref. 24760], Rema Devi et al. 1999:161 [ref. 24758], Parenti 1999:2200 [ref. 24784], Fuller et al. 1999:312 [ref. 25838], Nakabo 2000:546 [ref. 25086], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:72 [ref. 25191], Freyhof et al. 2000:96 [ref. 25184], Lyons et al. 2000:67 [ref. 26594], Rafique 2000:326 [ref. 25220], Matsuura et al. 2000:194 [ref. 26000], Sakai et al. 2001:89 [ref. 25693], Kottelat 2001:144 [ref. 25780], Hutchins 2001:25 [ref. 25847], Skelton 2001:280 [ref. 27406], Allen et al. 2002:366 [ref. 25930], Keith et al. 2002:96 [ref. 31473], Nakabo 2002:546 [ref. 26001], Lim et al. 2002:72 [ref. 28310], Poeser 2003:140 [ref. 26783], Ghedotti & Wiley 2003:1157 [ref. 27019], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:568 [ref. 27061], Yadav 2003:23 [ref. 27711], Seegers et al. 2003:41 [ref. 28087], Nelson et al. 2004:104 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:196 [ref. 28107], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:179 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:174 [ref. 28369], Poeser et al. 2005:97 [ref. 28493], Lucinda & Reis 2005:47 [ref. 29205], Mundy 2005:295 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Gates 2006:743 [ref. 28997], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:484 [ref. 29996], Scharpf 2007:20 [ref. 30398], Fricke et al. 2009:32 [ref. 30213], Schories et al. 2009:44 [ref. 30534], Minckley & Marsh 2009:256 [ref. 31114], Page & Burr 2011:442 [ref. 31215], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Marshall 2011:199 [ref. 31755], Hammer et al. 2012:66 [ref. 32389], Angulo et al. 2013:997 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Kottelat 2013:300 [ref. 32989], Larson et al. 2013:71 [ref. 32988], Page et al. 2013:110 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:20 [ref. 32896], Barriga Salazar 2014:117 [ref. 35745], Morgan et al. 2014:41 [ref. 36567], Ramos et al. 2014:5 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:187 [ref. 35004], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:33 [ref. 33341], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:298 [ref. 34894], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:894 [ref. 34062], McDowall & Stewart 2015:974 [ref. 34275], Meyer 2015:205 [ref. 34698], Ho et al. 2016:Fig. 1 [ref. 34400] in subgenus Acanthophacelus, Miesen et al. 2016:87 [ref. 34492], Reis et al. 2016:17 [ref. 34496], Costa et al. 2017:45 [ref. 35684], Esmaeili et al. 2017:92 [ref. 35254], Koerber et al. 2017:73 [ref. 35267], Labatos 2017:4 [ref. 36239], Lucinda 2017:1 [ref. 35162], Bruton et al. 2018:109 [ref. 36373], Esmaeili et al. 2018:75 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:109 [ref. 35805], Koerber et al. 2019:10 [ref. 36736], Ng et al. 2019:537 [ref. 36606], Huber 2019:116 [ref. 36941], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:252 [ref. 37108], Azevedo-Santos et al. 2020:6 [ref. 39606], Dyldin et al. 2020:100 [ref. 37569], Mirande & Koerber 2020:2 [ref. 37594], Reis et al. 2020:474 [ref. 38364], Rodríguez-Barrera et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37800], Silva et al. 2020:13 [ref. 37809], Vita et al. 2020:[5] [ref. 37506], Wada et al. 2021:38 [ref. 38521], Taki et al. 2021:323 [ref. 39830], Çiçek et al. 2022:5 [ref. 38985], Jamaluddin et al. 2022:[8] [ref. 39245], Koerber et al. 2022:76 [ref. 39235], Meza-Vargas et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39566], Taphorn et al. 2022:36 [ref. 41297] in subgenus Acanthophacelus, Terán et al. 2022:5 [ref. 39112], Abwe et al. 2023:32 [ref. 39992], Chan et al. 2023:149 [ref. 40365], Çiçek et al. 2023:437 [ref. 40625], Esmaeili & Hamidan 2023:218 [ref. 40377], Gurgel-Lourenço et al. 2023:80 [ref. 41056], Jamandre 2023:166 [ref. 40455], Mousavi-Sabet et al. 2023:34 [ref. 40667], Nagy et al. 2023:358 [ref. 40348], Page et al. 2023:147 [ref. 40505], Quintela et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40727], Apaza et al. 2024:373 [ref. 41296], Çiçek et al. 2024:340 [ref. 40789], Escobar Camacho et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40892], Furuhashi et al. 2024:10 [ref. 41415], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:58 [ref. 41258]). Current status: Valid as Poecilia reticulata Peters 1859. Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Northeastern South America: coastal drainages between the Orinoco delta (Venezuela) and the Essequibo River delta (Guyana), islands of Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, and Trinidad and Tobago. Widely introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.