Mollienisia

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Mollienisia f

1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Poeciliidae – small fish of the coastal swamps of the southeastern US, now included in genus Poecilia as subgenus Poecilia (Mollienisia).

Synonyms

• Poecilia

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Percomorpha - series; Ovalentaria, Atherinomorpha - clades; Cyprinodontiformes - order; Cyprinodontoidei - suborder; Poeciliidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Mollienisia latipinna (now Poecilia latipinna; common molly), Mollienisia nicholsi (now Poecilia nicholsi), Mollienisia sphenops (now Poecilia sphenops; black molly), Mollienisia velifera (now Poecilia velifera; Yucatan molly) - species

References

• “Mollienisia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC. (supplement)
• Poecilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poecilia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Poecilia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mollienisia at World Register of Marine Species