 According to Stan Shubel, the author of "Aquarium Care for Fancy Guppies", the Endler guppy is, in fact, not a separate species; claiming it has the same genetic makeup as the common guppy, yet is given its own name, "Poecilia wingei", for conservation purposes.However, in 2009 S. Schories, M. K. Meyer and M. Schartl published on the basis of molecular data that "Poecilia wingei" is a separated taxon at the species level from "P. reticulata" and "P. obscura".In 2014 H. Alexander et al.