Talk:Pupfish

According to my reading, pupfishes are specifically an American group belonging to the genus Cyprinodon, and the name for the whole family Cyprinodontidae is killifish. Myopic Bookworm 11:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The family Cyprinidae is the minnow family, which includes carp.

I agree. Also, eventhough all Cyprinodontidae are killifish, most killifish are not Cyprinodontidae. All killifish are distributed within the families Aplocheilidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Profundulidae, Rivulidae and Valenciidae. The first one, Aplocheilidae, is by far the biggest with 310 nominal species distributed amongst 15 genera.

Source: FishBase, order of Cyprinodontiformes: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/OrdersSummary.cfm?order=Cyprinodontiformes (The order also includes families Anablepidae, Goodeidae and Poeciliidae, however these are not killifish, but live bearers.)

Tommy Kronkvist 02:57, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The top of the FishBase page does say "Family Cyprinodontidae - Pupfishes", and it's the authority for our titling here. Who's the authority for only Cyprinodon being "pupfishes"? Stan 12:43, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, no one, I guess... Still, saying that "The pupfishes are related to the killifishes" is like saying that "sparrows are related to birds". Pupfishes are of course related to killifishes, but thats simply because they are killifish themselves. Tommy Kronkvist 19:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]