Floridichthys polyommus

Category: Species
Submitter: Barry Cooper

Floridichthys polyommus

Floridichthys polyommus Hubbs, 1936.

Ocellated Killifish

Hubbs, C. L. 1936. Fishes of the Yucatán Peninsula. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication (457): 157-287, fig., tables, 15 plates. [description: pp. 214-216; plate 3, 3 figs.] [In: A. S. Pearse, E. P. Creaser, F. G. Hall, et al., 1936. The cenotes of Yucatán; a zoological and hydrographic survey. Carnegie Institution of Washington Number 457. 304 pp.]

Type locality: ocean beach near Champoton, Yucatán, Mexico.

Floridichthys carpio polyommus Hubbs, 1936: Relyea, 1975; Lazara, 1984; Heath, Turner, & Davis, 1993.

Floridichthys polyommus Hubbs, 1936: Duggins, 1980; Duggins, Karlin, Relyea, & Yerger, 1983 [proposed full species status]; Echelle & Echelle, 1993b; Greenfield & Thomerson, 1997 [figs. 35, 105, collection map 13].

Floridichthys carpio barbouri Hubbs, 1936: Relyea, 1975; Darling, 1976; Duggins, 1980; Duggins, Karlin, Relyea, & Yerger, 1983 [as a synonym, described in the same paper as F. polyommus and designated as a synonym of the latter by Duggins, et al. (1983), acting as first revisers].

Floridichthys carpio [misidentification]: Heath, Turner, & Davis, 1993 [according to the authors "probably the Yucatán subspecies, Floridichthys c. polyommus Hubbs"].

Submitted on:  Sat, 27-Feb-2010, 18:23