Ilyodon
Genus of fishes
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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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Scientific classification  | |
| 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
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]
- Ilyodon cortesae Paulo-Maya & Trujillo-Jiménez, 2000 (Freckled Splitfin)
- Ilyodon furcidens (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Goldbreast Splitfin)
- Ilyodon lennoni M. K. Meyer & W. Förster, 1983 (Chacambero Splitfin)
- Ilyodon whitei (Meek, 1904) (Balsas Splitfin)
- Ilyodon xantusi C. L. Hubbs & C. L. Turner, 1939 (Limones Splitfin)
