Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Anal soft rays: 10; Vertebrae: 33. Distinguished by the following combination of characters: absence of mandibular canal pore W; long epiotic processes in adults, extending beyond the first vertebra; anal-fin with 10 rays; discontinuous midlateral and dorsolateral stripes formed by series of blotches on body; midlateral stripe discontinuous anterior to dorsal-fin origin; large third hypobranchial, greater than one-half the length of the second hypobranchial; and presence of teeth on fourth ceratobranchial of adults (Ref. 75966).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cyprinodontiformes

Family: Anablepidae

Genus: Jenynsia

Species: Jenynsia diphyes Lucinda, Ghedotti & da Graça, 2006

Climate Zone

Biology

Life cycle and mating behavior

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Endangered

Threat to Humans

Harmless