Gambusia affinis ( Baird & Girard, 1853 )

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid, 2023, Fishes of Afghanistan; a revised and updated annotated checklist, Zootaxa 5305 (1), pp. 1-69 : 54

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5305.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:55EB7903-BB1A-45F9-9660-16DAF957C67A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8075614
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FF9F-FFBE-38E2-19788A8C63F0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Gambusia affinis ( Baird & Girard, 1853 )
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Remarks: A major effort to breed Gambusia was implemented during 1971–1979 in Afghanistan. Fish were reared in artificial ponds based on natural springs near the cities of Qonduz, Mazar, Faryab, Kabul, Lashkar Gah, and Jalalabad and transported to rice farms and stagnant waters. For example, fish listed as Gambusia affinis (but probably Gambusia holbrooki ) Coad (2014).