Perugia's limia
# Perugia's limia

Perugia's limia (Limia perugiae) is a small fish of the family Poeciliidae endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic), where it occurs in streams.

## Description

It grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.

## Taxonomy

It was described as Platypoecilus perugiae in 1906 by Barton Warren Evermann and Howard Walton Clark with a type locality given as a small stream in the San Francisco Mountains of the Dominican Republic. The specific name honours the Italian ichthyologist Albert Perugia (1847-1897) of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova in recognition of his work on West Indian fishes.

