petnet learned that in 1859, German fish scholar Wilhelm C.H.Peter found guppy in the Rio Guair place name of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, so he Became the first scientist to begin to describe this small freshwater fish, because the guppy looks similar to the Poecilia fish name) famili fish, so Wilhelm C.H.Peter named the guppy as the word PoeciliareticulataReticulata It means that the partially overlapping scales on the guppy form a lace-like pattern.
In 1861, Senior Filippi in Spain got some specimens of guppies from Barbado (Barbado guppy, because he did not see Peter's description, and mistakenly thought he had discovered a new genus. Senior Filippi found that The guppy looks very similar to Poecilia, so it was called Lebistpoeciloid Frazer-Brunner, 1953, and the name guppy was waited until the British botanist Robert John Lechmer Guppi brought back some specimens from Trinidad for identification. Dr. Albert Gunther of the British Museum identified this specimen as a new species, and the name Girardinuguppyi guppy was established in honor of what Robert Guppi called it. The origin of the guppy is Venezuela (Venezuela Guyana (Guyana of South America). The northern coast and some islands in the Caribbean Sea. Because the guppies have a variety of color patterns, they are also known as rainbow fish. The guppy will use its upturned mouth to eat mosquitoes near the water. larvae, so wild guppies were introduced to Singapore in the 1930s to control the number of mosquitoes in mangrove swamps
In fact, according to various records, viewing improved guppies is the most popular It started as late as the 1950s. Fish like snake king and red peacock can only be said to be the pioneers. When watching the ET30 special episode, I especially noticed that there is a tank in the house of the protagonist, the little boy Guppy, which contains red peacock and red-tailed snake king, is not inferior to the current red peacock in terms of body size, and must be an artificially improved product.
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