helleri

helleri
/hel"euh ruy', -ree/, n.
1. a brightly colored, playful topminnow that is a hybrid of Xiphophorus helleri and X. maculatus, bred for aquariums.
2. swordtail.
[1905-10; < NL helleri (of Heller), a specific epithet, after Carl Heller, 20th cent. tropical fish collector]

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