hispaniolana, Poecilia Rivas [L. R.] 1978:101, Figs. 1a-b, 2a, 3 [Northeast Gulf Science v. 2 (no. 2); ref. 8887] Río Mijo at road from Azua to San Juan, Province of Benefactor, Dominican Republic. Holotype: USNM 218706. Paratypes: MCZ 54057 (808); UF 25275 (701); UMMZ 200218 (569 or 570), 208138 (45, 6 c&s); USNM 218707-17 (324 now 282, 240, 238, 157, 110, 212, 496, 26, 433, 194, 94). Type catalog: Parenti et al. 1999:15 [ref. 24072]. •Valid as Poecilia hispaniolana Rivas 1978 -- (Lee et al. 1983:50 [ref. 22527], Rodriguez 1997:673 [ref. 23266], Parenti et al. 1999:15 [ref. 24072], Meyer & Radda 2000:76 [ref. 25029], Meyer et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26721], Poeser 2003:152 [ref. 26783], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:567 [ref. 27061], Lucinda & Reis 2005:45 [ref. 29205], Meyer 2015:224 [ref. 34698], Ho et al. 2016:Fig. 1 [ref. 34400] in subgenus Psychropoecilia, Palacios et al. 2016:232 [ref. 34629] in subgenus Psychropoecilia, Huber 2019:103 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Valid as Poecilia hispaniolana Rivas 1978. Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Hispaniola Island: Dominican Republic and Haiti. Habitat: freshwater.