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- small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
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- ‘Natural and sexual selection on color patterns in poeciliid fishes’, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 9, 173–90. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- The guppy is a small freshwater poeciliid fish native to Trinidad and parts of South America, and has been used extensively in laboratory based research, particularly in studies of sexual selection.
- Our results might indicate a left hemisphere dominance in sexual behavior in this nocturnal primate, which is in line with the findings of a right eye preference in courtship approach by poeciliid fish PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
