Micropoecilia

Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco & Reis, Roberto E., 2005, Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, Neotropical Ichthyology 3 (1), pp. 1-60 : 46

Micropoecilia + “ Poecilia ” reticulata

Clade [87]

Diagnosis. Micropoecilia and “ Poecilia ” share the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) preorbital canal present and partially closed bearing two upper pores and a lower deep groove [9-1]; (2) anterior tip of basipterygium in adult males approximately triangular and round [37-0]; (3) first gonapophysis forming an angle of 5-15 degrees relative to vertebral column [53-2]; (4) second gonapophysis forming an angle of zero-15 degrees relative to vertebral column [54-3]; (5) distal portion of third and fourth gonactinosts separate, except by tip of gonactinost [74-2]; (6) gonactinost 5 fused to gonactinost complex [81-1]; (7) spines on subdistal segments of R3 retrorse [108-2]; (8) distal segments of R4p posterior to serrae wider than deep [115-0]; (9) four to seven subdistal retrorse spines on R4p [116-2]; (10) absence of a keel on posterior ventral surface of R5 formed by the projection of R5 toward R4p [119-0]; and (11) hypural plate partially fused with an elongate aperture [131-1].