| Common name | Guppy |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Territory | UK Great Britain & N. Ireland |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Blanc, M., J.-L. Gaudet, P. Banarescu and J.-C. Hureau, 1971 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | person (eponym) |
| 1st modifier | |
| 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). Also Ref. 54735. |