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WoRMS taxon detailsGambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)
159325 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159325)
accepted
Species
Fundulus inurus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) · unaccepted
Gambusia affinis affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853) · unaccepted
Gambusia affinis katruelis (Baird & Girard, 1853) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Gambusia gracilis Girard, 1859 · unaccepted
Gambusia humilis Günther, 1866 · unaccepted
Gambusia patruelis (Baird & Girard, 1853) · unaccepted
Haplochilus melanops Cope, 1870 · unaccepted
Heterandria affinis Baird & Girard, 1853 · unaccepted
Heterandria patruelis Baird & Girard, 1853 · unaccepted
Zygonectes brachypterus Cope, 1880 · unaccepted
Zygonectes gracilis (Girard, 1859) · unaccepted
Zygonectes inurus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 · unaccepted
Zygonectes patruelis (Baird & Girard, 1853) · unaccepted
(of Heterandria affinis Baird & Girard, 1853) Baird, S. F. ; Girard, C. F. (1853). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, under Lt. Col. Jas. D. Graham. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 6: 387-390. [details]
Distribution North and Central America: Mississippi River basin from central Indiana and Illinois in USA south to Gulf of Mexico and...
Distribution North and Central America: Mississippi River basin from central Indiana and Illinois in USA south to Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Slope drainages west to Mexico. One of the species with the widest range of introductions which acquired for itself a near pan-global distribution. N.J. to s. Florida and around n. Gulf Coast of Texas. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159325 on 2025-05-14
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Gambusia gracilis Girard, 1859) Girard, C. F. (1859). Ichthyological notices. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 11: 113-122 ;v. 11:150. [details] original description (of Gambusia humilis Günther, 1866) Günther, A. (1866). Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. 6: i-xv + 1-368. [details] original description (of Heterandria affinis Baird & Girard, 1853) Baird, S. F. ; Girard, C. F. (1853). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, under Lt. Col. Jas. D. Graham. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 6: 387-390. [details] original description (of Heterandria patruelis Baird & Girard, 1853) Baird, S. F. ; Girard, C. F. (1853). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, under Lt. Col. Jas. D. Graham. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 6: 387-390. [details] original description (of Haplochilus melanops Cope, 1870) Cope, E. D. (1870). A partial synopsis of the fishes of the fresh waters of North Carolina. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 11 (84): 448-495. [Reissued as second edition in 1877 with notes added.]. page(s): 457 [details] original description (of Zygonectes brachypterus Cope, 1880) Cope, E. D. (1880). On the zoological position of Texas. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> No. 17: 1-51. page(s): 34 [details] original description (of Zygonectes inurus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) Jordan, D. S.; Gilbert, C. H. (1882). Description of a new cyprinodont (Zygonectes inurus), from southern Illinois. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 5 (no. 273): 143-144. [details] basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details] Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  Otheradditional source
King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal New Zealand part of the South Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Individual release: accidental release by individuals [details]Introduced species vector dispersal New Zealand part of the Tasman Sea (Marine Region) Natural dispersal [details] Unreviewed
Distribution North and Central America: Mississippi River basin from central Indiana and Illinois in USA south to Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Slope drainages west to Mexico. One of the species with the widest range of introductions which acquired for itself a near pan-global distribution. N.J. to s. Florida and around n. Gulf Coast of Texas. [details]Habitat nektonic [details]
To Barcode of Life (109 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Zygonectes brachypterus Cope, 1880) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Haplochilus melanops Cope, 1870) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Gambusia humilis Günther, 1866) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Gambusia affinis affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Heterandria patruelis Baird & Girard, 1853) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Zygonectes gracilis (Girard, 1859)) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Zygonectes inurus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Heterandria affinis Baird & Girard, 1853) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (259 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications) (from synonym Gambusia gracilis Girard, 1859) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications) (from synonym Gambusia patruelis (Baird & Girard, 1853)) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gambusia affinis) To Fishbase (from synonym Gambusia patruelis (Baird & Girard, 1853)) To Fishbase (from synonym Gambusia humilis Günther, 1866) To Fishbase (from synonym Gambusia gracilis Girard, 1859) To Fishbase (from synonym Fundulus inurus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)) To Fishbase (from synonym Heterandria affinis Baird & Girard, 1853) To Fishbase (from synonym Heterandria patruelis Baird & Girard, 1853) To Fishbase (from synonym Haplochilus melanops Cope, 1870) To Fishbase (from synonym Zygonectes brachypterus Cope, 1880) To Fishbase (from synonym Zygonectes inurus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) To Fishbase (from synonym Zygonectes patruelis (Baird & Girard, 1853)) To Fishbase (from synonym Zygonectes gracilis (Girard, 1859)) To FishBase images (Gambusia affinis affinis, New Zealand, by McDowall, R.M.) (from synonym Gambusia affinis affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)) To GenBank (57473 nucleotides; 68933 proteins) (from synonym Heterandria affinis Baird & Girard, 1853) To GenBank (57473 nucleotides; 68933 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (Gambusia affinis RAD103607-001) To NMNH Extant Collection (Gambusia affinis USNM 64766 radiograph) To ITIS |
