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Gambusia affinis
Description
** Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853).
Western Mosquitofish. To 6 cm (2.4 in) TL. Native to tributaries running into Gulf of Mexico from southern Illinois to eastern Mexico, now introduced worldwide for mosquito control. Occasionally in brackish waters. All in Moyle (2002).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Gambusia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Baird and Girard
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gambusia affinis (and, 1853) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.