Ilyodon is a genus of splitfins found in the Pacific slope river basins of Balsas, Tuxpan (Coahuayana), Purificación, Chacala (Marabasco), Armería and Ameca in western Mexico.

Ilyodon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Goodeidae
Subfamily: Goodeinae
Genus: Ilyodon
C. H. Eigenmann, 1907
Type species
Ilyodon paraguayense, a synonym of Ilyodon furcidens
Eigenmann. 1907[1]

Species

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There are currently five recognized species in this genus according to FishBase,[2] but only I. furcidens and I. whitei are indisputably valid (the remaining are then considered variants of those two).[3]

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Ilyodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ilyodon". FishBase. August 2012 version.
  3. ^ "Taxonomy and Phylogeny". Goodeid Working Group. Retrieved 23 September 2018.