Gambusia

Gambusia
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Gambusia
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Gambusia affnis
Clasificación científica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Clase: Actinopterygii
Orden: Cyprinodontiformes
Familia: Poeciliidae
Género: Gambusia
Poey, 1854
Especie tipo
Gambusia punctata
Especies
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Gambusia es un género de peces dulceacuícolas de la familia de los pecílidos, en el orden de los ciprinodontiformes. La especie tipo es la gambusia cubana (Gambusia punctata). Contiene especies tanto amenazadas como invasoras.

Especies

Se conocen 43 especies de este género, de las cuales dos están extintas:

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  • Gambusia — Gambusia …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Gambusia — n. A genus of fish including some of the mosquitofish. Syn: genus {Gambusia}. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gambusia — ☆ gambusia [gam byo͞o′zē ə, gam byo͞o′sē ə] n. [ModL, altered from Cuban Sp gambusino ] any of a genus (Gambusia) of small freshwater livebearers useful in mosquito control, including the mosquitofish …   English World dictionary

  • Gambusia — Taxobox name = Gambusia image width = 250px image caption = Cuban gambusia, Gambusia punctata regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Cyprinodontiformes familia = Poeciliidae genus = Gambusia genus authority = Poey,… …   Wikipedia

  • Gambusia — Gambusen Koboldkärpfling (Gambusia affinis) Systematik Teilklasse: Echte Knochenfische (Teleostei) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Gambusia — affinis …   Wikipédia en Français

  • gambusia — noun Etymology: New Latin, modification of American Spanish gambusino gambusia Date: circa 1889 any of a genus (Gambusia) of live bearers (family Poeciliidae) including some introduced as exterminators of mosquito larvae in warm freshwaters… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • gambusia — gam·bù·sia s.f. TS ittiol. pesce d acqua dolce del genere Gambusia, originario dell America tropicale, che si nutre di larve di zanzare e per questo è stato introdotto in molte parti del mondo e anche in Italia per combattere la malaria | con… …   Dizionario italiano

  • gambusia — /gæmˈbjuziə/ (say gam byoohzeeuh), /gæmˈbjuʒə/ (say gam byoozhuh) noun (plural gambusia or gambusias) any of various small fishes of the genus Gambusia, especially G. holbrooki, native to North America and introduced into Australia in an… …  

  • Gambusia — noun mosquitofish • Syn: ↑genus Gambusia • Hypernyms: ↑fish genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Poeciliidae, ↑family Poeciliidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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