World Species : Gambusia affinis (Live-bearing tooth-carp; Mosquito fish; Mosquitofish; Mosquito-fish; Topminnow; Western mosquitofish)

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Gambusia affinis (Live-bearing tooth-carp; Mosquito fish; Mosquitofish; Mosquito-fish; Topminnow; Western mosquitofish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) is a species of freshwater fish, also known commonly, if ambiguously, as simply mosquitofish or by its generic name, Gambusia, or by the common name gambezi. There is also an eastern mosquitofish (G. holbrooki).

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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Adult Length ^[1]	1.575 inches (4 cm)
Brood Dispersal ^[1]	On/In self
Brood Guarder ^[2]	Yes
Litter Size ^[1]	315
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	3 years
Migration ^[2]	Potamodromous

Diet ^[3]	Planktivore, Carnivore (Invertebrates)

Female Maturity ^[1]	90 days
Male Maturity ^[4]	90 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Bonneville	United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Cantabric Coast - Languedoc	France, Spain	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Central & Western Europe	Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Central Prairie	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
Colorado	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Columbia Glaciated	Canada, United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
Columbia Unglaciated	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Death Valley	United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
East Texas Gulf	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Gila	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Guzman - Samalayuca	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Hawaiian Islands	United States	Oceania	Oceanic Islands
Italian Peninsula & Islands	France, Italy, Malta, Monaco	Palearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Lahontan	United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Laurentian Great Lakes	Canada, United States	Nearctic	Large Lakes
Middle Missouri	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Oregon & Northern California Coastal	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Puerto Rico - Virgin Islands	United Kingdom, United States	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers
Sacramento - San Joaquin	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Coastal Rivers
Southern California Coastal - Baja California	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins
Teays - Old Ohio	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
Upper Mississippi	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Upper Rio Grande - Bravo	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
US Southern Plains	United States	Nearctic	Temperate Upland Rivers
Vegas - Virgin	United States	Nearctic	Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins

Protected Areas

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Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Anguilla australis (Shortfin eel)	2
Gobiomorphus cotidianus (Common bully)	1
Retropinna retropinna (Smelt)	1

Predators

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Consumers

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Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ ¹Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ ²Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012).
♦ ³Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ ⁴de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ ⁵Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ ⁶Relationship between turbidity and fish diets in Lakes Waahi and Whangape, New Zealand, John W. Hayes & Martin J. Rutledge, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 25:3, 297-304
♦ ⁷Seasonal diet of the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea on an oceanic island (Tenerife, Canary Islands): indirect interaction with wild seed plants, Airam RODRÍGUEZ, Beneharo RODRÍGUEZ, Beatriz RUMEU & Manuel NOGALES, ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA Vol. 42 (2007) No. 1
♦ ⁸del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁹CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ ¹⁰Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0