Species profile—Gambusia holbrooki (mosquitofish)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Poeciliidae (livebearers) → Gambusia holbrooki (mosquitofish)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Poeciliidae (livebearers)
- Scientific name
- Gambusia holbrooki (Girard, 1859)
- Common name
- mosquitofish
- WildNet taxon ID
- 27055
- Synonym(s)
- Gambusia affinis
- Alternate name(s)
- bore-drain fish
top minnow
plague minnow
eastern gambusia
gambusia - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Feral Animal
- Species environment
- Aquatic
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=27055
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.