Poecilia gilli - Costa Rican Molly

Poecilia gilli - Costa Rican Molly

One of my two males I got at an auction at Drammen akvarieklubb 22.09.2019

So, this is a molly that I think..is often confused with Poecilia Salvatoris - the Liberty Molly.

I had to spend some time searching the web in order to find a common english name for this fish, and when I googled pictures many of the fish that were labelled P.gilli were in fact P.salvatoris.

I guess it's because they look similar - both being quite pale mollies, but I think it's important to look at them as separate species and not lump them together.

To show you just how sparce the information in english is on this species here are some of the sources that you would think would have the common english name - but doesn't

http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Poecilia-gillii.html

and there is no english wikipedia page on them.

I first came accross the name Costa Rica Molly on the German wikipedia page:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa-Rica-Molly

and when googling Costa Rica molly I found an article on the web page of the Chicago livebearer society

https://www.chicagolivebearer.com/index.php/livebearer-profiles/67-poecilia-gilli-madre-de-dios