Fishes: Xenotoca Eiseni

Monday, 23 July 2012

Xenotoca Eiseni

The Redtail Splitfin, or Redtail Goodeid, (Xenotoca eiseni) is a species of goodeid fish from the family Goodeidae and subfamily Goodeinae. Like other members of Goodeinae, the Redtail Splitfin is a livebearer. However, the goodeid mating system differs in several ways from the more common livebearing fish from the family Poeciliidae that includes guppies and swordtails. While no goodeid species is a very popular aquarium fish, the Redtail Splitfin is one of most popular.The Redtail Splitfin comes from several rivers in the highlands of Mexico, including the Rio San Leonel and Rio Grande de Santiago in Nayarit and the Rio Tamazula in Jalisco.They live in clear mountain streams as well as roadside ditches.