Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 12; Anal soft rays: 9 - 10. With a single midlateral stripe without associated dorsolateral or ventrolateral stripes or blotches; greater than 13 relatively long and slender gill rakers on ventral limb of first gill arch; and a slightly subterminal mouth.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Cyprinodontiformes

Family: Anablepidae

Genus: Jenynsia

Species: Jenynsia unitaenia Ghedotti & Weitzman, 1995

Climate Zone

Biology

Found in streams.

Habitat

benthopelagic

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless