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(Top) Male and (bottom) female guppies (Lebistes reticulatus)

A colorful guppy fish, Poecilia reticulata, with an iridescent blue body and a large orange and black spotted tail, swims against a blurred green background.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: A-Z Animals - Beautiful Types Of Guppy Fish.	Grace Young	Oct 02, 2026
	Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Guppies.	Grace Young	Oct 10, 2024
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Sequencing and characterization of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) transcriptome.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: BMC - Environmental Evidence - Does anthropogenic introduction of guppy fish (Poecilia reticulata) impact faunal species diversity and abundance in natural aquatic habitats? A systematic review protocol.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 25, 2024
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology - Guppies Prefer to Follow Large (Robot) Leaders Irrespective of Own Size.	Aakanksha Gaur	Nov 28, 2023
	Add new Web site: Academia - Guppies and their Lifestyle.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 29, 2023
	Add new Web site: WebMD - What to know about guppies.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jul 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: The Spruce Pets - Guppy Fish Species Profile.	Emily Rodriguez	Mar 28, 2021
	Add new Web site: PetMD - Guppy Fish Care Sheet.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 19, 2019
	Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Beautiful Types Of Guppy Fish.	Grace Young	May 13, 2013
	Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Guppy Fish.	Grace Young	May 13, 2013
	Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Guppy Fish.	Grace Young	May 13, 2013
	Article revised and updated.	John P. Rafferty	Oct 08, 2008
	Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Guppy.	Shiveta Singh	May 18, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998