The Balsas splitfin (''Ilyodon whitei'') is a species of

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the family Goodeidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

where it occurs in the states of

Morelos Morelos (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 36 municipalities and its capital city is Cuer ...

and

Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...

. This fish was formally described as ''Goodea whitei'' by Seth Eugene Meek in 1904 with the type locality given as Yautepec in Morelos. The

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honours E. A. White of the

Interoceanic Railway of Mexico The Interoceanic Railway of Mexico (''Ferrocarril Interoceánico de México'') was one of the primary pre- nationalization railways of Mexico. Incorporated in Great Britain in 1888 to complete an unfinished project and compete with the Mexican Rai ...

for his interest in and support of Meek's work.

References

whitei Freshwater fish of Mexico Taxa named by Seth Eugene Meek Fish described in 1904 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cyprinodontiformes-stub