Profundulus

Profundulus
Profundulus kreiseri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Profundulidae
Genus:	Profundulus C. L. Hubbs, 1924
Type species
Fundulus punctatus Günther, 1866[1]

Profundulus is a genus of fish in the family Profundulidae endemic to Mexico and northern Central America.[2] It was regarded as the only genus in the Profundulidae[3] but workers have split the genus and raised a second genus Tlaloc.[2][4]

Species

These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[2]

• Profundulus adani Sara E. Dominguez-Cisneros, 2021 [5]
• Profundulus balsanus C. G. E. Ahl, 1935 (Balsas killifish) [6]
• Profundulus candalarius Hubbs, 1924 (Headwater killifish)
• Profundulus chimalapensis Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano, 2020[7]
• Profundulus guatemalensis (Günther, 1866) (Guatemalan killifish)
• Profundulus hildebrandi R. R. Miller, 1950 (Chiapas killifish)
• Profundulus kreiseri Matamoros, J. F. Schaefer, C. L. Hernández & Chakrabarty, 2012 (Kreiser's killifish) [8]
• Profundulus labialis (Günther, 1866) (Largelip killifish)
• Profundulus mixtlanensis Ornelas-García, Martínez-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2015 [9]
• Profundulus oaxacae (Meek, 1902)
• Profundulus portillorum Matamoros & Schaefer, 2010
• Profundulus punctatus (Günther, 1866) (Oaxaca killifish)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Profundulus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Profundulus". FishBase. June 2016 version.
3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 372. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
4. Morcillo, F.; Ornelas-García, C.P.; Alcaraz, L.; Matamoros, W.A. & Doadrio, I. (2015). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Mesoamerican endemic freshwater fish family Profundulidae (Cyprinodontiformes: Actinopterygii)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Part. A): 242–251. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.002. PMID 26364972.
5. Dominguez-Cisneros, Sara E, Ernesto Velázquez-Velázquez, Caleb D. McMahan, Wilfredo A. Matamoros; A new species of killifish of the genus Profundulus (Atherinomorpha: Profundulidae) from the upper reaches of the Papaloapan River in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 2021. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 109(4):949–957
6. Jamangapé O, J.A., Velázquez-Velázquez, E., Martínez-Ramirez, E., Anzueto-Calvo, M.J., Gomez, E.L., Dominguez-Cisneros, S.E., McMahan, C.D. & Matamoros, W.A. (2016): Validity and Redescription of Profundulus balsanus Ahl, 1935 (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae). Zootaxa, 4173 (1): 55–65.
7. Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano; Profundulus chimalapensis, una nueva especie de pez ciprinodóntido (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae) del Río Coatzacoalcos, México | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40340/44229
8. Matamoros, W.A., Schaefer, J.F., Hernández, C.L. & Chakrabarty, P. (2012): Profundulus kreiseri, a new species of Profundulidae (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from northwestern Honduras. ZooKeys, 227: 49–62.
9. Ornelas-García, C.P., Martínez-Ramírez, E. & Doadrio, I. (2015): A new species of killifish of the family Profundulidae from the highlands of the Mixteca region, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 86 (4): 926–933.