#2337 · 🐟 fish
Banded Killifish
🇳🇱 Fundulus diaphanus diaphanus ·Fundulus diaphanus
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what is it?
The banded killifish ( Fundulus diaphanus ) is a North American species of temperate freshwater killifish belonging to the Fundulus genus of the Fundulidae family. The natural geographic range extends from Newfoundland to South Carolina, and west to Minnesota. It includes the Great Lakes drainages. The banded killifish is the only freshwater killifish found in the northeastern United States. While it is primarily a freshwater species, it can occasionally be found in brackish water.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,395 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Banded Killifish
- Nederlands
- Fundulus diaphanus diaphanus
- scientific name
- Fundulus diaphanus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- family
- Fundulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,395
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Fundulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 101053, Wikidata Q3075950, GBIF 5712054, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.