Ilyodon

Ilyodon is a genus of splitfins found in the Pacific slope river basins of Balsas, Tuxpan (Coahuayana), Purificación, Chacala (Marabasco), Armería and Ameca in western Mexico.

Ilyodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Goodeidae
Subfamily:	Goodeinae
Genus:	Ilyodon C. H. Eigenmann, 1907
Type species
Ilyodon paraguayense, a synonym of Ilyodon furcidens Eigenmann. 1907[1]

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus according to FishBase,^[2] but only I. furcidens and I. whitei are indisputably valid (the remaining are then considered variants of those two).^[3]

• Ilyodon cortesae Paulo-Maya & Trujillo-Jiménez, 2000 (Freckled Splitfin)
• Ilyodon furcidens (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Goldbreast Splitfin)
• Ilyodon lennoni M. K. Meyer & W. Förster, 1983 (Chacambero Splitfin)
• Ilyodon whitei (Meek, 1904) (Balsas Splitfin)
• Ilyodon xantusi C. L. Hubbs & C. L. Turner, 1939 (Limones Splitfin)