Perugia's limia facts for kids
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Perugia's limia (Limia perugiae) is a small fish of the family Poeciliidae endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic), where it occurs in streams.
Description
It grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.
Taxonomy
It was described as Platypoecilus perugiae in 1906 by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark with a type locality given as a small stream in the San Francisco Mountains of the Dominican Republic. The specific name honours the Italian ichthyologist Albert Perugia (1847-1897) of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova in recognition of his work on West Indian fishes.
See also
In Spanish: Limia perugiae para niños
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