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==Systematics== Based on [[Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes|''Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes'']] (2025):<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last1=Fricke |first1=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=California Academy of Sciences |language=en}}</ref>[[Image:Guppy-male.jpg|thumb|right|[[Guppy]], a live-bearer of the [[Poeciliidae]]]] '''CYPRINODONTIFORMES''' * Suborder [[Aplocheiloidei]] (all oviparous) ** Family [[Aplocheilidae]] - Asian killifishes ** Family [[Nothobranchiidae]] - African killifishes ** Family †[[Kenyaichthyidae]] (Miocene of Kenya)<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Altner |first1=Melanie |last2=Reichenbacher |first2=Bettina |date=2015-04-29 |title=†Kenyaichthyidae fam. nov. and †Kenyaichthys gen. nov. – First Record of a Fossil Aplocheiloid Killifish (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=e0123056 |bibcode=2015PLoSO..1023056A |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0123056 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=4414574 |pmid=25923654 |doi-access=free}}</ref> ** Family [[Rivulidae]] - New World killifishes * Suborder [[Cyprinodontoidei]] ** Family [[Pantanodontidae]] - spine killifishes (oviparous) ** Family [[Fundulidae]] - topminnows (oviparous) ** Family [[Cyprinodontidae]] - pupfishes (oviparous) ** Family [[Profundulidae]] - Middle American killifishes (oviparous) ** Family [[Goodeidae]] - splitfins or goodeids (largely viviparous) ** Family [[Fluviphylacidae]] - American lampeyes (oviparous) ** Family [[Anablepidae]] - four-eyed fish (largely ovoviviparous) ** Family [[Poecilidae]] - livebearers (viviparous) ** Family [[Aphaniidae]] - Oriental killifishes (oviparous) ** Family [[Valenciidae]] - Valencia toothcarps (oviparous) ** Family [[Procatopodinae|Procatopodidae]] - African lampeyes (oviparous) The family Aplocheilidae has been expanded by some authorities to include all the killifishes with three subfamilies, Aplocheilinae, Cynolebiinae and Nothobranchiinae,<ref name=Costa2016>{{cite journal | author = Costa, W.J.E.M. | year = 2016 | url = http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz66-2/03_vertebrate_zoology_66-2_costa_125-140.pdf | title = Comparative morphology and classification of South American cynopoeciline killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae), with notes on family-group names used for aplocheiloids. | journal =Vertebrate Zoology | volume = 66 | issue = 2 | pages = 125–140| doi = 10.3897/vz.66.e31538 | doi-access = free }}</ref> but this is not the classification adopted in the 5th Edition of ''[[Fishes of the World]]''.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=371 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2019-08-25 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> === Phylogeny === Based on:<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last1=Bragança |first1=Pedro H. N. |last2=Amorim |first2=Pedro F. |last3=Costa |first3=Wilson J. E. M. |date=2018-02-09 |title=Pantanodontidae (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes), the sister group to all other cyprinodontoid killifishes as inferred by molecular data |url=https://zse.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=22173 |journal=Zoosystematics and Evolution |language=en |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=137–145 |doi=10.3897/zse.94.22173 |issn=1860-0743 |doi-access=free}}</ref>{{Clade |label1='''Cyprinodontiformes''' |1={{clade |label1=[[Aplocheiloidei]] |1={{clade |1=[[Aplocheilidae]] |2={{clade |1=[[Nothobranchiidae]] |2=[[Rivulidae]] |3={{extinct}}[[Kenyaichthyidae]] }} }} |label2=[[Cyprinodontoidei]] |2={{clade |1=[[Pantanodontidae]] |2={{clade |1=[[Cyprinodontidae]] |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=[[Profundulidae]] |2=[[Goodeidae]] }} |2={{clade |1=[[Fundulidae]] |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=[[Fluviphylacidae]] |2={{clade |1=[[Anablepidae]] |2=[[Poecilidae]] }} }} |2={{clade |1=[[Procatopodidae]] |2={{clade |1=[[Aphaniidae]] |2=[[Valenciidae]] }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}
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