Specimen ID | 40076 |
Group | Fishes |
Genus | Gambusia |
Species | affinis |
Common Name | Western Mosquitofish |
State | OH |
County | Lucas |
Locality | Maumee River near Lake Erie |
Mapping Accuracy | Accurate |
HUC8 Name | Lower Maumee |
HUC8 Number | 04100009 |
HUC10 Name | Grassy Creek-Maumee River |
HUC10 Number | 0410000909 |
HUC12 Name | Delaware Creek-Maumee River |
HUC12 Number | 041000090904 |
Map | |
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: | 2 |
Author: | Trautman, M.B. |
Date: | 1981 |
Title: | The fishes of Ohio. |
Publisher: | Ohio State University Press |
Pages: | 782 pp |
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Comments | Trautman 1981 reports that is was the western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis that became established in Ohio (stock source from Michigan, which originally came from southern Illinois) |
Record Type | Literature |
Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |