Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 97

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603748
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FFF1-FFD5-98E2-FE29F93F3238
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853)
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** Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard, 1853) View in CoL .

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).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Cyprinodontiformes
Family	Poeciliidae
Genus	Gambusia

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