Ilyodon
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Goodeidae |
| Subfamily: | Goodeinae |
| Genus: | Ilyodon C. H. Eigenmann, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Ilyodon paraguayense, a synonym of Ilyodon furcidens Eigenmann. 1907[1]
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Ilyodon is a genus of
splitfins found in the Pacific slope river basins of Balsas, Tuxpan (Coahuayana), Purificación, Chacala (Marabasco), Armería and Ameca
in western Mexico.
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus according to FishBase,[2] but only I. furcidens and I. whitei are indisputably valid (the remaining are then considered variants of those two).[3]
- Ilyodon cortesae Paulo-Maya & Trujillo-Jiménez, 2000 (Freckled Splitfin)
- Ilyodon furcidens (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Goldbreast Splitfin)
- Ilyodon lennoni M. K. Meyer & W. Förster, 1983 (Chacambero Splitfin)
- Ilyodon whitei (Meek, 1904) (Balsas Splitfin)
- Ilyodon xantusi C. L. Hubbs & C. L. Turner, 1939 (Limones Splitfin)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Ilyodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Ilyodon in FishBase. August 2012 version.
- ^ "Taxonomy and Phylogeny". Goodeid Working Group. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
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