Guppies are a very popular fish in China. Because of their beautiful color and shape, guppies are very popular among people. Guppies are also known as anchovies, rainbow fish, million fish, and kuppy fish. The origin of the name guppies is not simply due to their size. The editor has sorted out the names of guppies for you. The origin and evolution of.
Guppy (confirm introduction)
In 1861, Senior Filippi of Spain obtained some guppy specimens from Barbados. Because he did not see the descriptions that Peters had done, he mistakenly thought that he had invented a new fish species. Senior Filippi also discovered that this fish looked very similar to fish of the genus Poecilia, so he called it Lebistes poeciloides.
Almost at the same time, in 1866, the British biological species collector and missionary Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1836-1916) sent some animals from Trinidad to the London Museum. Guppy specimens were identified as a new species by Dr. Albert Gunther of the British Museum, and they were named Giradinus guppyi. Interestingly, A. Günther does not confirm Peters' previous naming, because Peters only gave a biological description of the female fish. In order to praise the achievements of Robert John Lechmere Guppy, Guppy was used as the English common name of the fish. From this, the name of guppy spread on the European continent.
In the Berlin Museum, only the female guppy sent by Professor Gollmer was named Poecilia reticulata, while the two specimen bottles containing male fish were finally labeled Giradinus guppyi. It is clear that these labels have been applied since 1866. People have never understood the exact reason why Peters has been reluctant to conduct biological characterizations of male guppies. As everyone knows, Mr. Gollmer packed the male and female guppies in the same bottle and shipped them back to Germany. According to common reasoning, since Mr. Gollmer is not a fish expert, when he caughtWhen looking at this kind of fish, he should pay attention to the obvious body color differences between male and female fish and easily mistakenly think that they are different types of fish, so he will use different bottles to package the male and female fish. But Mr. Gollmer's approach is completely different. Not to mention the fact that male and female guppies are packed in the same bottle, Peters, a biologist with advanced training in ichthyology, must also understand the Poecilia family. cospecific heteromorphism, because as early as 1848, Heckel had already biologically described the male-male heteromorphism of the green swordtail fish (XipHopHorus helleri). Mr. Gollmer's label on the transport bottle, Mr. Gollmer's lack of communication with Berlin, and Peters's suspicion that male fish are oviviviparous killifish at all may have made this identification work that is already prone to confusion and error even more complicated. Mixed. As for the fact that guppies are ovoviviparous killifish, it was not until aquarium enthusiasts began to raise this fish that people gradually became aware of it.
By 1853, aquariums had been built in zoos in Britain, France, Germany and many other countries, and these aquariums gradually evolved into a unique scenery in the zoo. In the years between 1853 and 1859, many people claimed to have "invented" the guppy for the first time, and a number of strange and unusual guppy names were coined by these inventors.
Guppy (confirm introduction)
In 1908, Siggelkow first imported live guppies to Germany in the form of Giradinus guppyi. In the following years, guppy fish and its common name Guppy also became widely spread throughout the world.
By 1913, when Regan began to change the scientific classification of guppies to Poecilidae, the fish specimens in Berlin and London were also confirmed to belong to the same species and were renamed Lebistes reticulatus , and recognized Peters' work as the first effective biological verification.
In 1963, Rosen and Bailey further revised the classification of guppies and changed its species name to Poecilia reticulata. They also reviewed the biological description of the fish by Peters in 1859. spiritExperimentality again gives confession.
The sad thing is that the named novel is not finished yet. Not long after, the name of Poecilidae was re-examined again, and the former Lebistes reticulatus was used as a "return to ancient times". For guppies, this name seems to be closer. However, who knows that the fate of guppy naming is so complicated that some scientists from other countries unexpectedly renamed guppies Poecilia Gollmer. It is said that this move was to commemorate the original contribution of Mr. Gollmer. .
In any case, the original name Poecilia reticulata is still in use today. Mr. Gollmer is recognized as the creator of the guppy. During his lifetime, he probably could not have imagined that this beautiful little fish he created would produce so many different varieties in a hundred and fifty years. And it is deeply welcomed by people all over the world and has become one of the most representative popular species of ginseng fish.
The name of guppies is derived from a relatively complicated and long novel. However, understanding this experience is just to help us understand guppies more deeply. The most important thing is to raise strong and beautiful ones. Guppies.
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