Female
A female at Ojos Solo Spring, the species is exotic for this locality, Ojo Solo, Chihuahua. Photo by Manuel Salazar González. (21-Apr-2015). determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Poeciliidae

Genus
Gambusia

Group
Arthrophallus (subgenus)


Last updated on:
23-Nov-2012

Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)


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Original description as Heterandria affinis:

  • Baird, Spencer F. & C.F. Girard. 1853. "Descriptions of new species of fishes collected by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, under Lt. Col. Jas. D. Graham". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6:387-390 (ffm04562)

Synonyms (3):

Conservation: Gambusia affinis is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.