Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard 1853)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- family
- Poeciliidae
- genus
- Gambusia
- species
- Gambusia affinis
description
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).