Goodea luitpoldii, the green goodea, is a species of killifish from the family Goodeidae which is endemic to the drainage basin of the Lerma River and the Grande de Santiago River in Mexico.[1] This species was Species description described as Characodon luitpoldii by the Franz Steindachner in 1894 with the type locality given as Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán.[2] The identity of the person honoured in its specific name is unknown but it is thought likely to be Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821-1912) whose daughter, Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850-1925) was an explorer and amateur naturalist and she collected the type.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Goodeidae |
| Genus: | Goodea |
| Species: | G. luitpoldii
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| Binomial name | |
| Goodea luitpoldii (Steindachner, 1894)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Characodon luitpoldii Steindachner, 1894 | |
References
edit- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Goodea lutipoldii". FishBase. April 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Characodon luitpoldii". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 April 2019). "Order Cyprinodontiformes: Families Pantanodontidae, Cyprinodontidae, Profundulidae, Goodeidae, Fundulidae and Fluviphylacidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 22 September 2019.