Ilyodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Goodeidae
Subfamily: Goodeinae
Genus: Ilyodon
C. H. Eigenmann, 1907
Type species
Ilyodon paraguayense, a synonym of Ilyodon furcidens
Eigenmann. 1907[1]

Ilyodon is a genus of splitfins found in the Pacific slope river basins of Balsas, Tuxpan (Coahuayana), Purificación, Chacala (Marabasco), Armería and Ameca in western Mexico.

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus according to FishBase,[2] but only I. furcidens and I. whitei are indisputably valid (the remaining are then considered variants of those two).[3]

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Ilyodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Ilyodon in FishBase. August 2012 version.
  3. "Taxonomy and Phylogeny". Goodeid Working Group. Retrieved 23 September 2018.


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