Goodeidae
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Goodeidae is a family of teleost fish endemic to Mexico and some areas of the United States. Many species are known as splitfins. This family contains about 50 species within 18 genera.[2][3] The family is named after ichthyologist George Brown Goode (1851-1896).[4]
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Splitfins | |
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Redtail splitfin, Xenotoca eiseni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
(unranked): | Ovalentaria |
Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
Suborder: | Cyprinodontoidei |
Family: | Goodeidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883[1] |
Subfamilies | |
Empetrichthyinae |
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The earliest fossil goodeid is Tapatia, a goodeine from the middle Miocene of Mexico. The earliest fossil empetrichthyine is Empetrichthys erdisi from the Miocene or Pliocene of California.[5][6]