Author: (Girard, 1859)
FBname: Amazon molly
Comments: In backwaters and quiet pools of streams, sloughs, and ditches, usually over mud.  This is an all-female species thought to have originated as a result of hybridization between <i>P. latipinna</i> and <i>P. sphenops</i>.  Gynogenesis reproduction is triggered by copulation and stimulation by sperm from males of other species in the genus, either  <i>P. latipinna, P. mexicana, P. latipunctata</i>, or rarely <i>P. sphenops</i>.