Yucatan flagfish

{{Short description|Species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name = iucn>{{Cite iucn | author = Schmitter-Soto, J. | author2 = Vega-Cendejas, M. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2019 | title = ''Jordanella pulchra'' | article-number = e.T191310A1975431 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T191310A1975431.en }}</ref> | parent_authority = C. L. Hubbs, 1936 | taxon = Garmanella pulchra | authority = C. L. Hubbs, 1936 | synonyms = *''Jordanella pulchra'' <small>(Hubbs, 1936)</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = Fishbase/> }}

The '''Yucatan flagfish''' (''Garmanella pulchra''), also known as the '''snakeskin killifish''', is a species of pupfish from the family Cyprinodontidae. It is found in the coastal waters (both fresh and brackish) of the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico and Belize.<ref name = iucn/> This species grows to a length of {{convert|4|cm|in}} TL and is found in the aquarium trade.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Garmanella|pulchra|month=August|year=2019}}</ref> This species was described by Carl Leavitt Hubbs in 1936 with the type locality given as {{convert|5|km|mi}} east of Progreso, Yucatán, Mexico.<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|spid=14094|title=''Garmanella pulchra''|access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref> It is the only known member of its genus.<ref name = FishBaseG>{{FishBase genus|genus=Garmanella|month=August|year=2019}}</ref> The name of the genus commemorates the American ichthyologist Samuel Garman (1843-1927) who was working on a revision of his 1895 monograph on the Cyprinodontidae at the time of his death. It is sometimes treated as a junior synonym of ''Jordanella''.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cyprinodontiformes3/ | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 26 April 2019 | title= Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families PANTANODONTIDAE, CYPRINODONTIDAE, PROFUNDULIDAE, GOODEIDAE, FUNDULIDAE and FLUVIPHYLACIDAE | access-date = 18 October 2019 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>

The Yucatan flagfish is found in coastal brackish water systems and inland freshwaters with hard water over substrates of marl, sand, decomposing vegetation, rocks and mud. It is mainly herbivorous, its diet largely being made up of microalgae, but it also eats small invertebrates such as ostracods, tanaidacea, and amphipods.<ref name = iucn/>

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Category:Cyprinodontidae Category:Taxa named by Carl Leavitt Hubbs Category:Fish described in 1936 Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN