{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Profundulus kreiseri, USM 39022, holotype.png | image_caption = ''Profundulus kreiseri'' | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Profundulus | authority = C. L. Hubbs, 1924 | type_species = Fundulus punctatus | type_species_authority = Günther, 1866<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=7640|title=''Profundulus''|access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref> }}
'''''Profundulus''''' is a genus of fish in the family Profundulidae endemic to Mexico and northern Central America.<ref name=FB>{{FishBase_genus | genus = Profundulus | month = June | year = 2016 }}</ref> It was regarded as the only genus in the Profundulidae<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=372 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref> but workers have split the genus and raised a second genus ''Tlaloc''.<ref name = FB/><ref name=Morcillo2015>{{cite journal | author1 = Morcillo, F.| author2 = Ornelas-García, C.P. | author3 = Alcaraz, L. | author4 = Matamoros, W.A. | author5 = Doadrio, I. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Mesoamerican endemic freshwater fish family Profundulidae (Cyprinodontiformes: Actinopterygii) | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 94 | issue = Part. A | pages = 242–251| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.002 | pmid = 26364972 }}</ref>
==Species== These are the currently recognized species in this genus:<ref name = FB/> * ''Profundulus adani'' <small>Sara E. Dominguez-Cisneros, 2021</small> <ref>Dominguez-Cisneros, Sara E, Ernesto Velázquez-Velázquez, Caleb D. McMahan, Wilfredo A. Matamoros; A new species of killifish of the genus Profundulus (Atherinomorpha: Profundulidae) from the upper reaches of the Papaloapan River in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 2021. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 109(4):949–957</ref> * ''Profundulus balsanus'' <small>C. G. E. Ahl, 1935</small> (Balsas killifish) <ref name=Jamangape2016>Jamangapé O, J.A., Velázquez-Velázquez, E., Martínez-Ramirez, E., Anzueto-Calvo, M.J., Gomez, E.L., Dominguez-Cisneros, S.E., McMahan, C.D. & Matamoros, W.A. (2016): [http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4173.1.5/8567 Validity and Redescription of ''Profundulus balsanus'' Ahl, 1935 (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae).] ''Zootaxa, 4173 (1): 55–65.''</ref> * ''Profundulus candalarius'' <small>Hubbs, 1924</small> (Headwater killifish) * ''Profundulus chimalapensis'' <small>Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano, 2020</small><ref>Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano; Profundulus chimalapensis, una nueva especie de pez ciprinodóntido (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae) del Río Coatzacoalcos, México | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40340/44229</ref> * ''Profundulus guatemalensis'' <small>(Günther, 1866)</small> (Guatemalan killifish) * ''Profundulus hildebrandi'' <small>R. R. Miller, 1950</small> (Chiapas killifish) * ''Profundulus kreiseri'' <small>Matamoros, J. F. Schaefer, C. L. Hernández & Chakrabarty, 2012</small> (Kreiser's killifish) <ref name=Matamoros2012>Matamoros, W.A., Schaefer, J.F., Hernández, C.L. & Chakrabarty, P. (2012): [https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3164&element_type=9 ''Profundulus kreiseri'', a new species of Profundulidae (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from northwestern Honduras.] ''ZooKeys, 227: 49–62.''</ref> * ''Profundulus labialis'' <small>(Günther, 1866)</small> (Largelip killifish) * ''Profundulus mixtlanensis'' <small>Ornelas-García, Martínez-Ramírez & Doadrio, 2015</small> <ref name=Ornelas2015>Ornelas-García, C.P., Martínez-Ramírez, E. & Doadrio, I. (2015): [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1870345315001359 A new species of killifish of the family Profundulidae from the highlands of the Mixteca region, Mexico.] ''Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 86 (4): 926–933.''</ref> * ''Profundulus oaxacae'' <small>(Meek, 1902)</small> * ''Profundulus portillorum'' <small>Matamoros & Schaefer, 2010</small> * ''Profundulus punctatus'' <small>(Günther, 1866)</small> (Oaxaca killifish)
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Category:Profundulidae Category:Cyprinodontiformes Category:Freshwater fish genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Leavitt Hubbs
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