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Swordtail

Reference

IB1251

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Mosquitofishes - POECILIIDAE

Common Name

Swordtail

Scientific Name

Xiphophorus helleri

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

The Mosquitofish was introduced in Australia in the 1920s as a means of controlling the aquatic larvae of mosquitos. The strategy has had the opposite effect, as it actually prefers to feed on the invertebrate predators of mosquito larvae.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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