POECILIIDAE

Livebearers

Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
family
Data links
LSID JSON / WMS /RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2f3c52fb-3f0c-4e17-826c-99525e0c5241

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=family:POECILIIDAE
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence
 Recorded In Australia
 Marine Habitats
 Terrestrial Habitats

Occurrence records map

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Online resources

Encyclopedia of Life
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Names and sources

Accepted name Source
POECILIIDAE

Common Names

Common name Source
Poeciliids
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Livebearers
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Livebearing Toothcarps
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
suprageneric
PISCES
class
ACTINOPTERYGII
subphylum
EUTELEOSTEI
superorder
ACANTHOPTERYGII
order
CYPRINODONTIFORMES
family
POECILIIDAE  Recorded in Australia
genus
Gambusia: Topminnmows  Recorded in Australia
genus
Phalloceros  Recorded in Australia
genus
Poecilia  Recorded in Australia
genus
Xiphophorus: Swordtails  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

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Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA

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