. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. Henn: South American Pceciliid Fishes. 133 Eigenmann based this species on a male, as the type, with which were associated seven females, which seem to belong to a distinct species, subsequently described by Regan as P. picta. The apparent. Fig. 14. Pcecilia melanzona (Eigenmann). Distal end of anal of male. X —• No. 1,086, Carnegie Museum. Georgetown, Brit. Guiana. differences between the single male and the females were supposed to be those of sexual dimorphism. Regan's material contained m
. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. Henn: South American Pceciliid Fishes. 133 Eigenmann based this species on a male, as the type, with which were associated seven females, which seem to belong to a distinct species, subsequently described by Regan as P. picta. The apparent. Fig. 14. Pcecilia melanzona (Eigenmann). Distal end of anal of male. X —• No. 1,086, Carnegie Museum. Georgetown, Brit. Guiana. differences between the single male and the females were supposed to be those of sexual dimorphism. Regan's material contained males agreeing in coloration with these females, to which they unquestion- ably belong, showing their specific distinctness from P. melanzona. Regan's supposition that the type of A. melanzoniis is a male of Lebistes reticulatus is erroneous, as will be seen by reference to the accompany- ing figure of the anal fin, which is that of a PcBcilia. The type, which is unique, has a broad lateral band of clear white or silvery, bordered by narrow lines of chocolate. Females of this species are unknown. 28. Pcecilia picta Regan. Acanlhophacelus melanzonus Eigenmann {in fart, females), Ann. Carnegie Museum, Vol. VI, 1909, p. 51; Mem. Carnegie Museum, Vol. V, 1912, p. 457, pi. LXIV, fig. 6. Pcecilia picta Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, p. 1007, pi. C, fig. i, 2, and text-fig. 173 A (Demerara). As stated in the remarks under Pcecilia melanzona, that species was a composite based upon a male (type) and several females supposed to belong to it, but shown by males in Regan's material to be distinct and described by him as the present species. Both are distinct and valid species of the genus Pcecilia. Males and females of this species are more or less similar in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origi
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