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    Killifish that may look the same but are really very much not, often being from entirely different continents.
 
           
    
     
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          | Episemion callipteron and Rivulus lyricauda
         
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          | Roloffia and a South American Annual
        Leptolebias auroguttatus and Scriptaphyosemion cauveti.
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          | A. franzweneri and a goby
        The "goby killie" and a real goby have an eerily similar color pattern. Aphyosemion franzweneri and Mugilogobius mertoni.
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          | Rivulus and Roliffia
        Rivulus and Scriptaphyosemion.
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          | Gularis tail
        Why do so many killifish have the same tail fin?
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          | The Rivulus that mimics an Aphyosemion
        Aphyosemion striatum and Rivulus mahadensis.
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  Homologous Killifish
 
 
 	
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