{"id":866,"date":"2026-10-19T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/species\/ceylon-killifish\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:19:13","slug":"ceylon-killifish","status":"publish","type":"sw_species","link":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/species\/ceylon-killifish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceylon Killifish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ceylon killifish is a species of killifish endemic to Sri Lanka. It grows to a length of 9\u00a0cm (3.5\u00a0in). Males and females have a black dot at the rear end of the base of the dorsal fin. Females lay 50\u2013150 eggs. The specific name of this fish honours the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India Francis Day (1829\u20131889), who first reported this fish, although he identified it as Aplocheilus panchax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ceylon killifish is a species of killifish endemic to Sri Lanka. It grows to a length of 9\u00a0cm (3.5\u00a0in). Males and females have a black dot at the rear end of the base of the dorsal fin. Females lay 50\u2013150 eggs. The specific name of this fish honours the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13979,"template":"","sw_group":[7],"sw_taxon":[89,251,250],"sw_iucn":[15],"class_list":["post-866","sw_species","type-sw_species","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sw_group-fish","sw_taxon-actinopterygii","sw_taxon-aplocheilidae","sw_taxon-cyprinodontiformes","sw_iucn-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_species\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_species"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sw_species"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_species\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_species\/866\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sw_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_group?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"sw_taxon","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_taxon?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"sw_iucn","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sriwild.tharulk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_iucn?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}