Gambusia holbrooki

Gambusia holbrooki

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyprinodontoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Cyprinodontiformes Subordo: Cyprinodontoidei

Familia: Poeciliidae
Subfamilia: Poeciliinae
Tribus: Gambusiini
Genus: Gambusia
Species: Gambusia holbrooki

Name

Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859

• Syntypes: ANSP 6976-77 (2) Palatka, MCZ 35999 [ex USNM 8301] (5) Charleston, USNM 8301 (45).
• Type locality: Palatka, eastern Florida; Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Synonyms

Zygonectes atrilatus Jordan & Brayton, 1878

References

• Girard, C.F.; 1859: Ichthyological notices. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 11: 56–68. BHL Reference page. 
• Jordan, D.S. & Brayton, A.W. 1878. Contributions to North American ichthyology. No. 3. A. On the distribution of the fishes of the Allegany region of South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with descriptions of new or little known species. Bulletin of the United States national museum 12: 3–95. Reference page. 
• Vera, M., Díez-del-Molino, D. & García-Marín, J.-L. 2016. Genomic survey provides insights into the evolutionary changes that occurred during European expansion of the invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). Molecular Ecology 25(5): 1089–1105. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13545Reference page. 

Links

• Gambusia holbrooki in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on January 5, 2015.
• Gambusia holbrooki in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Gambusia holbrooki – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

English: Eastern mosquitofish
estremeñu: Barrigón