Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859

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 : 47

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.8097319

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1A3C-FF84-FFA5-38E2-1C1D8A346144

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859
status

 

Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 View in CoL View at ENA

[I]—Eastern mosquitofish

Taxonomy. Original description: Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859: 390 View in CoL [Palatka, eastern Florida, (Palatka, eastern Florida and Charleston, South Carolina), USA; lectotype: ANSP 6976; lectotype selected by Huber (2019: 64)].— Afghanistan synonyms: None.—Revisions: Rauchenberger (1989: 3).—Illustration: McEachran & Fechhelm (1998: 924, fig.).

Status in Afghanistan. First record from Afghanistan by Polevoj et al. (1973); confirmed by Coad [1981: 8 as Gambusia affinis (non Baird & Girard 1853); 2014: 319], Coad (1981), Haas and Pal (1984), Lever (1996), Penning and Beintema (2006).—Afghanistan materials: None.

Distribution and habitat. Distribution in Afghanistan:Widespread all basins of Afghanistan.—General distribution: North America: Atlantic and Gulf Coast drainages, eastern USA; widely introduced elsewhere for mosquito control.—Habitat: This species often occurs in shallow, often stagnant ponds and the shallow edges of lakes and streams where predatory fishes are largely absent and temperatures are high. Freshwater, brackish.

Economic importance. No commercial importance.

Reasons of introduction. Ornamental fish industry.

Conservation. Not relevant (introduced species).

Remarks. Gambusia holbrooki has been widely introduced and is important in controlling malaria, especially in rice fields, and its significance for Afghanistan is evidenced by a guidebook on the use of Gambusia written in Dari (Anonymous 1979). A summary of its use in Afghanistan can be found in a publication by the World Health Organization (2003).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Cyprinodontiformes

Family

Poeciliidae

Genus

Gambusia

Loc

Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859

Çiçek, Erdoğan, Fricke, Ronald, Eagderi, Soheil, Sungur, Sevil, Coad, Brian W & Hamdard, Mohammad Hamid 2023
2023
Loc

Gambusia holbrooki

Girard 1859: 390
1859
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