Perugia's limia


Perugia's limia is a small fish of the family Poeciliidae endemic to the Dominican Republic where it occurs in streams. This species grows to a length of TL. This species was Species description described as Platypoecilus perugiae in 1906 by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark with a type locality given as a small stream in the San Francisco Mountains of the Dominican Republic. The specific name honours the Italian ichthyologist Albert Perugia of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova in recognition of his work on West Indian fishes.