Livebearers are fish that retain their eggs inside the body and give birth to live, free-swimming young. They are especially prized by aquarium owners. Among aquarium fish, livebearers are nearly all members of the family Poeciliidae and include: guppies, mollies, platies and swordtails.[1]
The advantages of livebearing to the aquarist are that the newborn juvenile fish are larger than newly-hatched fry, have a lower chance of mortality and are easier to care for. Unusual livebearers include seahorses and pipefish, where the males care for the young, and certain cichlids that are mouthbrooders, with the parent incubating the eggs in the buccal cavity.
^David Alderton (15 May 2012). Livebearers: Understanding Guppies, Mollies, Swordtails and Others. CompanionHouse Books. ISBN 978-1-62008-006-1.
Endlers are purebred; undocumented fish sold in pet stores as Endler's livebearers are assumed to have some degree of guppy hybridization. In addition,...
in the family Anablepidae. Like Anableps species, they are onesided livebearers: some sources indicate that they only mate on one side, right-"handed"...
water. Heterandria formosa has an uncommon breeding strategy even among livebearers: rather than all of the young being released at once, as many as 40 fry...
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livebearers reproduce ovoviviparously. After a gestation period of 24 days, the female gives birth to 10 to 30 young, seldom more. For a livebearer,...
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majority of their lives in Jamaica's fresh waters include many species of livebearers, killifish, freshwater gobies, the mountain mullet, and the American...
preferred in low-predation environments. Guppies are highly prolific livebearers. The gestation period of guppies varies considerably, ranging from 20...
(silversides and rainbowfishes) Order Cyprinodontiformes Berg 1940 (livebearers, killifishes) Order Beloniformes Berg 1940 (flyingfishes and ricefishes)...
sixteen species: the four-eyed fishes (genus Anableps), the onesided livebearers (genus Jenynsia) and the white-eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii. Fish of this...
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fishes in the family Poeciliidae of the order Cyprinodontiformes. These livebearers are native to fresh, brackish and salt water in the Americas, and some...
for Guppies – The Most Popular and Colorful Livebearer". Aquarium Co-Op. Retrieved 2022-07-22. "Livebearer Care Guide". www.aqueon.com. Retrieved 2022-07-22...
majority of their lives in Jamaica's fresh waters include many species of: Livebearers Killifish Gobies Perch Piranha The Malagasy mountain mullet, American...
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the Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine listed L. melanogaster among seven livebearers which were more commonly kept in aquaria until the introduction of new...
Poeciliopsis prolifica, or the blackstripe livebearer, is a species of small freshwater fish in the family Poeciliidae. It is endemic to Mexico. It is...
danionines are perhaps only rivalled by characids (tetras) and poecilid livebearers in their popularity for community aquaria.[citation needed] Some of the...
are either viviparous or ovoviviparous, and are collectively known as livebearers. Fish gonads are typically pairs of either ovaries or testicles. Most...
reproduction, and brood number. Mollies are similar in appearance to their livebearer cousins, the platy, swordtail and guppies; the molly tends to be slightly...
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