Platy

Weight

Not recorded

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classTeleostei
4. orderCyprinodontiformes
5. familyPoeciliidae
6. genusXiphophorus
7. SpeciesXiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866)

Synonyms Lebistes reticulatus var. aurata, Platypoecilus aurata, Platypoecilus cyanellus, Platypoecilus maculatus, Platypoecilus maculatus aurata, Platypoecilus maculatus cyanellus, Platypoecilus maculatus maculatus, Platypoecilus maculatus sanguinea, Platypoecilus nigra, Platypoecilus pulchra, Platypoecilus rubra, Platypoecilus sanguinea, Poecilia maculata, Poecilia maculatus, Xiphorus helleri maculatus, Xiphorus maculatus

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Green swordtail

Xiphophorus hellerii

Poeciliidae

V

Variatus platy

Xiphophorus variatus

PoeciliidaeNo free photo yet

S

Sheepshead swordtail

Xiphophorus birchmanni

PoeciliidaeNo free photo yet

P

Platy Monterrey

Xiphophorus couchianus

PoeciliidaeNo free photo yet

M

Mexican swordfish

Xiphophorus montezumae

PoeciliidaeNo free photo yet

M

Marbled swordtail

Xiphophorus meyeri

PoeciliidaeNo free photo yet

ComparePlaty vs Green swordtailPlaty vs Variatus platyPlaty vs Sheepshead swordtailPlaty vs Platy Monterrey

• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits · CC BY 4.0 · v1
  Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5
• AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
  Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
  Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence).
• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
  Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).

@misc{platy_2026,
  title = {Platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/platy},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}