| Specimen ID | 39243 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Gambusia |
| Species | affinis |
| Common Name | Western Mosquitofish |
| State | NV |
| County | Doug/Lyon/Wahsoe |
| Locality | Lake Tahoe |
| Mapping Accuracy | Approximate |
| HUC8 Name | Lake Tahoe |
| HUC8 Number | 16050101 |
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| Collection Year | 1980 |
| Year Accuracy | Publication Year |
| Potential Pathway | stocked for biocontrol |
| Status | established |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 275 |
| Author: | Lee, D.S., C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, R.E. Jenkins, D.E. McAllister, and J.R. Stauffer, Jr. |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Title: | Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. |
| Publisher: | North Carolina State Museum of Natural History |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Pages: | 854 pp |
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| Reference 2 |
| Ref. Number: | 281 |
| Author: | Miller, R.R., and J.R. Alcorn |
| Date: | 1946 |
| Title: | The introduced fishes of Nevada, with a history of their introduction. |
| Journal: | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society |
| Volume: | 73 |
| Pages: | 173-193 |
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| Reference 3 |
| Ref. Number: | 128 |
| Author: | Rees, D.M. |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Title: | Notes on mosquito fish in Utah, Gambusia affinis (Baird and Girard). |
| Journal: | Copeia |
| Volume: | 1945 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 236 |
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| Comments | Stocking this aggressive fish in the SW has extirpated many localized native species. Miller and Alcorn 1946 provide evidence that original introductions in Nevada were Gambusia affinis, the western mosquitofish (stock source: Southern California, which originally came from Mississippi (Rees 1934)) |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
