Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AA61E68D-3A1B-45BD-821F-E6AD862F6808 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8253165 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC87BD-FFAE-0A30-80F4-FD0AFD34FB67 |
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Plazi |
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Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 |
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43. Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 View in CoL View at ENA ―Eastern Mosquitofish― Exotic
Taxonomy. Original description: Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859:62 View in CoL [ Palatka , eastern Florida, (Palatka, eastern Florida and Charleston, South Carolina), U.S.A.; Lectotype: ANSP 6976 ]. Synonyms: Haplochilus melanops Cope, 1870 ; Gambusia modesta Ahl, 1923 View in CoL ; Gambusia myersi Ahl, 1925 View in CoL .
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. First record from Saudi Arabia by Al-Kahem-Al-Balawi et al. (2008); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020).
General distribution. North America: Atlantic and Gulf Coast drainages, eastern U.S.A.; widely introduced elsewhere for mosquito control. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia: Al-Ahsa Oasis as well as the adjacent Al-Asfar Lake in the eastern province. Also, in Wadi Hanifah in Riyadh province, Al-Kharj and Layla Lake.
Economic importance. No commercial importance. It can be used to control mosquito population.
Reasons of introduction. Biological control of mosquito.
Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859
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Gambusia myersi
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Gambusia modesta
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Haplochilus melanops
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Gambusia holbrooki
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