Big Bend gambusia
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The Big Bend gambusia (Gambusia gaigei) is a rare species of fish in the family Poeciliidae.[1] It is endemic to the Big Bend region of the Rio Grande of the United States and Mexico. The only known remaining population is in a protected pond in the Big Bend National Park.[2]
This livebearer is about Script error: No such module "convert". long. It feeds on aquatic invertebrates.[2]
This species was described by the American ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs in 1929 from a type collected in slough close to the Rio Grande at Boquillas, Brewster County, Texas[3] by Frederick McMahon Gaige (1890–1976), a zoologist who was director of the Zoological Museum of the University of Michigan. The specific name honours Gaige.[4]
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