A small fish that resembles the carp but possesses small teeth, occurring mainly in fresh water in America. Many toothcarp are popular in aquaria.
Order Cyprinodontiformes: several families, in particular Cyprinodontidae (or Fundulidae) (the egg-laying killifishes and topminnows), and Poeciliidae (the livebearers)
Example sentencesExamples
- The main tasks carried out in the Pletera were to improve the conservation state of vegetal sand dune and marshlands communities and to ensure the conservation of the Spanish toothcarp, a fish in danger of extinction and only found in the Iberian peninsula.
- The only fish now found here is a species of toothcarp that is confined to the mouths of streams that flow into the lake.
- Among the fish species to be seen are very characteristic of the area like the Samaruc (Valencia toothcarp) and the Fartet.
- In the water is one of the few populations in Andalucia of the endangered Iberian toothcarp, which is native to the Iberian Peninsula.
- Fundulus cingulatus is an egg-laying toothcarp of the family Cyprinodontidae.
- Or, if tortoises, skinks and toads are perhaps a bit too slimy for you, its waters are home to the minute Aphanius iberus, the killifish or Spanish toothcarp.
- Genetic monitoring of brackish-water populations: the Mediterranean toothcarp Aphanius fasciatus as a model
- Coercive mating and gonopodium length in two populations of a livebearering toothcarp: do cave molly males have shorter gonopodia?