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Plesiolebias

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Plesiolebias is a genus of fish in the family Rivulidae. These annual killifish are endemic to seasonal pools, swamps and lagoons in the Araguaia–Tocantins, Xingu, and uppermost Paraguay (Pantanal) river basins in Brazil.^[2]

They are small fish, up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in total length.^[3] As typical of killifish, males are more colorful than females.^[2]

Plesiolebias and the closely related Maratecoara, Papiliolebias, Pituna and Stenolebias form a clade, Plesiolebiasini.^[2]

There are currently eight recognized species in Plesiolebias:^[3]

^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Plesiolebias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Costa, W.J.E.M. (2007). "Taxonomy of the plesiolebiasine killifish genera Pituna, Plesiolebias and Maratecoara (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), with descriptions of nine new species". Zootaxa. 1410: 1–41.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). Species of Plesiolebias in FishBase. November 2018 version.

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Plesiolebias is a genus of fish in the family Rivulidae. These annual killifish are endemic to seasonal pools, swamps and lagoons in the Araguaia–Tocantins, Xingu, and uppermost Paraguay (Pantanal) river basins in Brazil.

They are small fish, up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in total length. As typical of killifish, males are more colorful than females.