Leidy ( 2007 ) identified the native fishes in San Tomas Aquino Creek as Western mosquitofish ( " Gambusia affinis " ).
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Four species of native fishes have been collected from Adobe Creek recently : California roach, western mosquitofish ( " Gambusia affinis " ).
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Leidy ( 2007 ) identified three species of native fishes in Calabazas Creek : California roach, Western mosquitofish ( " Gambusia affinis " ).
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The so-called mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, which will be confined to the plants, multiply rapidly and are considered a vacuum for larvae, consuming hundreds an hour.
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The acclimation of the " Gambusia affinis ", a larva-eating fish used to combat malaria is attributed to his son, parasitologist Sad?de Buen Lozano.
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A crucial step was introduction in 1925 of the fish " Gambusia affinis " ( mosquitofish ), which feeds on the aquatic larval and pupal stages of mosquitoes.
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Leidy's 2007 report also recorded the fish still inhabiting Permanente Creek-including native California roach ( " Lavinia symmetricus " ), Western mosquitofish ( " Gambusia affinis " ).
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The systematics and biology of the poeciliid fish, " Gambusia rhizophorae " with an account of its hybridization with " Gambusia affinis " and " Gambusia punctata ".
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The main threat to them is perturbation of the habitat, in particular the introduction of predators such as the fishes " Lepomis gibbosus " and " Gambusia affinis ".
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Effective biocontrol agents include predatory fish that feed on mosquito larvae such as mosquitofish ( " Gambusia affinis " ) and some cyprinids ( carps and minnows ) and killifish.