Gambusia holbrooki Girard 1859
Description
Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 [I]—Eastern mosquitofish
Taxonomy. Original description: Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859: 390 [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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Poeciliidae
- Genus
- Gambusia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- holbrooki
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 sec. Çiçek, Fricke, Eagderi, Sungur, Coad & Hamdard, 2023
References
- Girard, C. F. (1859) Ichthyological notices. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 11, 56 - 68.
- Rauchenberger, M. (1989) Systematics and biogeography of the genus Gambusia (Cyprinodontiformes: Poecilidae). American Museum Novitates, 2951, 1 - 74.
- McEachran, J. D. & Fechhelm, J. D. (1998) Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico. Vol. 1. Myxiniformes to Gasterosteiformes. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1112 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.7560 / 752061
- Polevoj, N. I., Jalilov, Kh. D., Yacubi, G. H., Nushin, M. K., Artemiev, M. M., Yermishev, U. V., Flerova, O. A., Pereyaslavtsev, G. P. and Jamil, T. M. (1973) Experiment on Gambusia transportation from the Tazik SSR into northeast Afghanistan and its application in the antimalaria campaign. World Health Organization, WHO / MAL / 73 795, 1 - 8.
- Coad, B. W. (1981) Fishes of Afghanistan, an annoted checklist. National Museum of Canada Publications in Zoology, 14, i - v + 1 - 26.
- 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. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6, 387 - 390.
- Haas, R. & Pal, R. (1984) Mosquito larvivorous fish es. Bulletin of t he Entomological Society of America, 30 (1), 17 - 25. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / besa / 30.1.17
- Lever, C. (1996) Naturalized Fishes of the World. Academic Press, London. xxiv + 408 pp.
- Penning, E. & Beintema, A. (2006) Integrated water resources management for the Sistan closed inland delta, Iran. Annex D. Sistan wetlands ecosystem - funclioning and responses. WL Delft Hydraulics, Delft, vii + 91 pp. [http: // www. wldclft. nl / cons / area / rbm / wrpt / pdflannex _ d. pdl]