It is in the same genus as the common platy and the swordtail. Graphium latreillianus, the coppery swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. The larval food plants of the sixbar swordtail are primarily from family Lauraceae. Ancyluris meliboeus (meliboeus swordtail) is a butterfly of the family Riodinidae. The type species is "X. hellerii," the green swordtail. Pygmy swordtail "Xiphophorus multilineatus" males offer another example of alternative mating strategies.