Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)
- Dataset
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Teleostei
- order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- family
- Poeciliidae
- genus
- Gambusia
- species
- Gambusia affinis
Name
- Synonyms
- Gambusia affinis subsp. affinis
- Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859
- Gambusia patruelis (Baird & Girard, 1854)
- Homonyms
- Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)
- Common names
- guayacón mosquito in Spanish
- mosquitofish in English
- western mosquitofish in English
Bibliographic References
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
- Parenti, Lynne R. / Carpenter, Kent E., and Volker H. Niem, eds., 1999: Poeciliidae: Livebearing toothcarps. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol. 4: Bony fishes, part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae). 2199-2200.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
- Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.