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Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859

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Girard, Charles F. in Girard, Charles F. 1859.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Actinopterygii
order
Cyprinodontiformes
family
Poeciliidae
genus
Gambusia
species
Gambusia holbrooki

Name

Synonyms
Gambusia affinis holbrocki (Girard, 1859)
Gambusia affinis holbrooki (Girard, 1859)
Gambusia holbrocki Girard, 1859
Gambusia patruelis holbrooki (Girard, 1859)
Heterandria holbrooki (Girard, 1859)
Schizophallus holbrooki (Girard, 1859)
Zygonectes atrilatus Jordan & Brayton, 1878
Homonyms
Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859
Common names
Ampirina in language.
Barkaleci pikalosh in Albanian
Barkaleci pikalosh in Albanian
Barkuleci in Albanian
Bore-drain fish in English
Eastern gambusia in English
Eastern mosquito fish in English
Eastern mosquitofish in English
Gambies in English
Gambunsino in Portuguese
Gambusia in Portuguese
Gambusia in Italian
Gambusia in English
Gambusia in Persian
Gambusia in language.
Gambusia in Italian
Gambusia in Portuguese
Gambuzie in Romanian
Gambuzie in language.
Holbrook’s mosquitofish in English
Marmorimoskiittokala in Finnish
Mosquitofish in English
Peixe-mosquito in Portuguese
Peixe-sapo in Portuguese
Peshku i mushkonjave in Albanian
Pirina in Malagasy
Plague minnow in English
Sivrisinek balığı in Turkish
Starling's perch in English
Top minnow in English
Täplämoskiittokala in Finnish
eastern gambusia in language.
eastern mosquitofish in English
gambusia in language.
mosquitofish in language.
plague minnow in language.
topminnow in language.
Östlig moskitfisk in Swedish
Østlig moskitofisk in Danish
Гамбузия in Russian
Кидик гамбузия in Kyrgyz
хольбрукская гамбузия in Russian
گامبوزيا in language.
东部食蚊鱼 in language.
東部食蚊魚 in language.
Eastern Mosquitofish in English
östlig moskitfisk in Swedish
barkuleci in Albanian
barkuleci in Albanian
eastern mosquitofish in English

Bibliographic References

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  2. Campos 1973, Arratia 1981, Pequeño 1989, Zunino et al. 2009, Parra-Coloma & Correa-Araneda 2014.
  3. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO (2016) Fisheries and Aquaculture topics. Introduction of species. Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species. In: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. Rome. http://www.fao.org/fishery/introsp/search/en (accessed 2016). http://www.fao.org/fishery/introsp/search/en
  4. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (12/2019).
  5. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (12/2019).
  6. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (12/2019).
  7. Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (2016) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication
  8. Invasive Species Specialist Group ISSG (2016) Global Invasive Species Database. http://www.issg.org/database (accessed 2016). http://www.issg.org/database
  9. McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  10. McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  11. Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick, 1997: null. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. xi + 324.
  12. 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.
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