Baja California killifish

Species of fish

Baja California killifish

Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Cyprinodontiformes
Family:  | Fundulidae
Genus:  | Fundulus
Species:  |

F. lima

Binomial name
Fundulus lima

Vaillant, 1894

Synonyms[2]

Fundulus meeki Evermann, 1908

The Baja California killifish (Fundulus lima) is a killifish in the family Fundulidae.[2] It is native to the Baja California Peninsula region of northwestern Mexico.[3] This fish was described by L.L. Vaillant in 1894 with the type locality given as San Ignacio de Caracamande in central Baja California.[4]

The Baja California killifishes found in oases, springs, ponds, and creeks which have clear water with low salinity levels and relatively slow flows with substrates consisting of bedrock, sand, and gravel. Their diet is varied by season and is made up of diatoms, insect larvae, and fish scales during the dry season while in the rainy season it is mainly insect larvae, filamentous algae, and ostracods.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b Lyons, T.J. (2019). "Fundulus lima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T8708A3146079. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T8708A3146079.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Fundulus lima". FishBase. April 2019 version.
3. ^ "Fundulus lima Vaillant, 1894". ITIS.
4. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Fundulus lima". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

Taxon identifiers

Fundulus lima|

* Wikidata: Q3756984
* Wikispecies: Fundulus lima
* BOLD: 140843
* CoL: 6K3FX
* EoL: 212509
* FishBase: 6282
* GBIF: 5203682
* iNaturalist: 101061
* IRMNG: 10716466
* ITIS: 647285
* IUCN: 8708
* NCBI: 34780
* Open Tree of Life: 368704
* Plazi: 7E800F89-16BB-755A-8E31-9E8B9C8DDDE6
* WoRMS: 1018197
* ZooBank: 176ED360-619E-41D8-8FF4-E3AA6FFCB906

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