WoRMS taxon details
Poeciliopsis turrubarensis (Meek, 1912)
282308 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282308)
accepted
Species
Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912 · unaccepted
Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912 · unaccepted (synonym)
Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925 · unaccepted
(of Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912) Meek, S. E. (1912). New species of fishes from Costa Rica. <em>Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series.</em> v. 10 (no. 7): 69-75. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Poeciliopsis turrubarensis (Meek, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282308 on 2026-07-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912) Meek, S. E. (1912). New species of fishes from Costa Rica. <em>Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series.</em> v. 10 (no. 7): 69-75. [details]
original description (of Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912) Eigenmann, C. H. (1912). Some results from an ichthyological reconnaissance of Colombia, South America. Part I. (Contrib. Zool. Lab. Ind. Univ. No. 127.). <em>Indiana University Studies.</em> No. 16 [sic No. 8]: 1-27. [details]
original description (of Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925) Hildebrand, S. F. (1925). Fishes of the Republic of El Salvador, Central America. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> v. 41 (no. 985): 237-287. [details]
original description (of Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912) Eigenmann, C. H. (1912). Some results from an ichthyological reconnaissance of Colombia, South America. Part I. (Contrib. Zool. Lab. Ind. Univ. No. 127.). <em>Indiana University Studies.</em> No. 16 [sic No. 8]: 1-27. [details]
original description (of Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925) Hildebrand, S. F. (1925). Fishes of the Republic of El Salvador, Central America. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> v. 41 (no. 985): 237-287. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poeciliopsis turrubarensis)
To Fishbase (from synonym Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912)
To Fishbase (from synonym Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925)
To GenBank (5432 nucleotides; 35 proteins) (from synonym Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912)
To GenBank (5432 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Heterandria colombianus Eigenmann & Henn, 1912)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Poeciliopsis turrubarensis)
To Fishbase (from synonym Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912)
To Fishbase (from synonym Priapichthys fosteri Hildebrand, 1925)
To GenBank (5432 nucleotides; 35 proteins) (from synonym Gambusia turrubarensis Meek, 1912)
To GenBank (5432 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
