Poecilia waiapi Bragança, Costa & Gama, 2012
Jari toothcarp

Family:  Poeciliidae (Poeciliids), subfamily: Poeciliinae
Max. size: 
Environment:  pelagic; freshwater
Distribution:  South America: Brazil. Described from the lower Jari river drainage, in northern Brazil (Ref. 89070).
Diagnosis:  Poecilia waiapi differs from all of its congeners by the presence of vertical dark gray bars on the flank in males (vs. bars absent in P. bifurca, P. picta and P. parae; vertical pale gray bars in P. sarrafae, P. minima and P. branneri); post-humeral blotch densely pigmented (vs. post-humeral blotch absent in P. branneri, post-humeral blotch slightly pigmented in P. sarrafae, P. minima, P. picta, P. bifurca, P. parae) (Ref. 89070).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Data deficient (DD); Date assessed: 07 November 2018 Ref. (130435)
Threat to humans:  harmless


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