| Common name | Swamp guppies |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Kenny, J.S., 1995 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | person (eponym) |
| 1st modifier | habitat/ecology |
| 2nd modifier | |
| Remarks | 'guppy', i.e., after Robert John Lechmere Guppy a Trinidadian naturalist (died 1916; Ref. 27888) who sent the first living specimens of Poecilia to the British Museum in the 1860s (Ref. 7020). |