Gambusia senilis

Gambusia senilis, the blotched gambusia, is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae found in Mexico, where it is called guayacon pinto, and formerly in the Devil's River in the Rio Grande basin in Texas.[2] The Texas population was extirpated following the construction of the Amistad Dam.[3]

Gambusia senilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Poeciliidae
Genus: Gambusia
Species:
G. senilis
Binomial name
Gambusia senilis
Girard, 1859

References

  1. NatureServe; Matamoros, W.; Valdes Gonzales, A. & Vega-Cendejas, M. (2019). "Gambusia senilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T8896A129984165. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T8896A129984165.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Gambusia senilis" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. "Gambusia senilis blotched gambusia". Fishes of Texas. Retrieved 3 November 2019.


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