#2191 · 🐟 fish
Guppy
🇳🇱 Gup ·Poecilia reticulata
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- 1. © kary · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Franz Anthony · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 5. © Per Harald Olsen · CC BY 4.0
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- 7. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
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- 10. © Maxfield JonasKrueger · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The guppy ( Poecilia reticulata ), also known as millionfish and rainbow fish , is one of the world's most widely distributed tropical fish, and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species. It is a member of the family Poeciliidae and, like almost all American members of the family, is live-bearing. Guppies, whose natural range is in northeast South America, were introduced to many habitats and are now found all over the world. They are highly adaptable...
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.
- 5,633 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Wilhelm Peters in 1859 (167 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Guppy
- Nederlands
- Gup
- scientific name
- Poecilia reticulata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- family
- Poeciliidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 77
- sightings worldwide
- 5,633
- GBIF records in NL
- 13
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1859 by Wilhelm Peters
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Poeciliidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 173412, Wikidata Q178202, GBIF 2350050, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.