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1423. Gambusia patruelis (Baird and Girard). Toip minnow; Mosqtiitofish. 



Ditches, marshes, and lagoons, South Atlantic and Gulf States, lowland 



streams of the southwest; lower Mississippi from St. Louis to 



Louisiana and the Rio Grande. Introduced from Galveston into 



Hawaii, California, P^ormosa, Luzon, etc., a very effective mosquito 



killer. 

 Heterandria patruelis Baird and Girard, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



VI, 1853, 390, Rio Sabinal, Rio Nueces, and Elm Creek, Tex. 

 Heterandria ajfinis Baird and Girard, loc. cit., 390, Rio Medina and 



Rio Salado, Tex. 

 ?Gambusia speciosa Girard, loc. cit., 1859, 121, Rio San Diego, Nuevo 



Leon, Mexico. 

 IGamhusia gracilis Girard, loc. cit., 1859, 121, Matamoros, Mexico; 



name preoccupied. 

 Gambusia humilis Giinther, Cat., VI, 1866, 334; substitute for gracilis. 

 Haplochilus melanops Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1870, 457, Neuse 



River, N. C. 

 Zygonectes (Micristius) brachypterus Cope, Bull., U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, 



1880, 34, Trinity River, Fort Worth, Tex. 

 Zygonectes inurus Jordan, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 143, Cache 



Creek, southern Illinois. 

 Gambusia modesta Ahl, Blatter fiir Aquarium- und Terrariakunde, 



XXXVI, 1923, 220, 

 Gambusia myersi Ahl, loc. cit., 1925, 36, with figure (substitute for 



modesta preoccupied) . 



1424. Gambusia holbrookl (Girard). Holbrook's top minnow. 



New Jersey to Florida and .\labama. 



Heterandria holbrooki Agassiz, in Girard, Proc. .\cad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



XI, 1859, 61, Charleston, S. C. 

 Haplochilus melanops Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XI, 1870, 457, 



Neu.se River, N. C. 

 Zygonectes atrilatus Jordan and Bravton, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 



i878, 84, Neu.se River, Goldsboro, N. C. 



1425. Gambusia nobilis (Baird and Girard). 



Hclernuilria nnhilis Baird and Girard, Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 

 1S53, 390, I>cona and Comanche Spring, Rio Grande, Tex. 



1426. Gambusia senilis Girard. 



Rio Grande Ba^in. 



Gambusia senilis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, 1859, 122, 

 Chihuahua, Mexico. 



Subgenus HEMIXIPHOPHORUS Bleeker. 



1427. Gambusia gracilis (Heckel). 



Lowland streams of eastern Mexico. 



Xiphophorus gracilis Heckel, Sitzungsber. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wier, I, 



1848, 300, taf. 9, figs. 3 and 4, Orizaba, Mexico. 

 Gambusia heckeli Bleeker, Fam. Cypr., 1860, 485. 



Subgenus GAMBUSIA Poey. 



1428. Gambusia punctata P<jey. Guajacon. 



Cuba. 



Gambusia punctata Poey, Memorias, I, 1854, 384, Rio Almendares, 



Cuba. 

 Gambusia picturata Poey, Repertorio, 1868, 410, San Diego de los 



Bafios, Cuba. 

 Gambusia punctata punctulata Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



XlX, 1895, 87, Remcdios, Cuba. 



1429. Gambusia puncticulata Poey. 



Streams of Cuba. 



(iambasia puncticulata Poey, Memorias, I, 1854, 386, Cuba. 



1430. Gambusia melapleura (Gosse). Ticky-ticky. 



Streams of Jamaica; locally common. 



Fcecilia melapleura Gosse, Naturalist's Sojourn iu Jamaica, 1851, 84, 

 Jamaica. 



