Species that contain: Poecilia and butleri [ 2 ] records

butleri, Poecilia Jordan [D. S.] 1889:330 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 11 (no. 719); ref. 10479] Río Presidio, near Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Syntypes: USNM 37158 (orig. 6, now 4). Type catalog: Parenti et al. 1999:14 [ref. 24072]. •Synonym of Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes 1846 -- (Rosen & Bailey 1963:50 [ref. 7067]). •Valid as Poecilia butleri Jordan 1889 -- (Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:48 [ref. 22290], Rodriguez 1997:673 [ref. 23266], Parenti et al. 1999:14 [ref. 24072], Meyer & Radda 2000:75 [ref. 25029], Meyer et al. 2002:50 [ref. 26721], Poeser 2003:164 [ref. 26783], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:567 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:104 [ref. 27807], Lucinda & Reis 2005:45 [ref. 29205], Miller 2006:232 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2007:19 [ref. 30398], Poeser 2011:420 [ref. 31550], McMahan et al. 2013:447 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:109 [ref. 32708], Palacios et al. 2013:13 [ref. 32935], Meyer 2015:211 [ref. 34698], Ho et al. 2016:Fig. 1 [ref. 34400] in subgenus Mollienesia, Palacios et al. 2016:232 [ref. 34629] in subgenus Mollienesia, Huber 2019:96 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Valid as Poecilia butleri Jordan 1889. Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Pacific slope of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

nelsoni, Platypoecilus Meek [S. E.] 1904:147, Fig. 46 [Field Columbian Museum, Zoölogical Series v. 5; ref. 2958] Papayo, Río Balsas basin, Guerrero, Mexico. Holotype: USNM 51484. Paratypes: USNM 59996-97 (1, 2), 125676 [ex USBF 1609] (1). Type catalog: Parenti et al. 1999:14 [ref. 24072]. •Synonym of Poecilia butleri Jordan 1889 -- (Parenti et al. 1999:14 [ref. 24072]). •Synonym of Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes 1846 -- (Rosen & Bailey 1963:51 [ref. 7067], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:569 [ref. 27061]). •Valid as Poecilia nelsoni (Meek 1904) -- (Poeser 2003:164 [ref. 26783], Poeser 2011:420 [ref. 31550], Meyer 2015:242 [ref. 34698], Palacios et al. 2016:232 [ref. 34629] in subgenus Mollienesia, Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36544], Huber 2019:110 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Valid as Poecilia nelsoni (Meek 1904). Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Central America: Mexico to El Salvador. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.