Species: Gambusia wrayi, Jamaica Mosquitofish

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Gambusia wrayi Regan, 1913
Jamaica mosquitofish
Head and body moderately robust, moderately compressed at rear; head depressed; front nostril not tubular; covering of eye not continuous with skin of head; mouth small, opens at front, slightly oblique, lower jaw slightly projecting, top jaw protractile; jaw teeth consist of an outer row of large backward curved teeth, and several rows of small pointed teeth; 15 (12-16) gill rakers; 1 dorsal fin with short base, at rear of body, 9 (8-10) rays; anal fin origin distinctly before dorsal fin origin in both sexes female with 11 rays; pelvic origin well behind pectoral base, near anal fin, tips of fins of males not swollen; pectorals high on flank, 14 (13-15), modified in male, with 5th ray scalloped near its tip; 3rd anal ray unbranched; anal fin modified in male to form an elongate sex organ, that greatly elongate organ slender, tapering to a blunt point, with tip curved upwards and with a small recurved hook on its top side, without a fleshy palp; tail base relatively narrow; tail fin rounded, branched tail rays 14 (12-16); scales smooth and relatively large, 30-33 (31-32) along side.
Light olive, a faint brown stripe from eye along body to tail fin base; a dark bar under eye; body with spots along scale rows; dorsal fin with 2 rows of small scattered spots, margin dark; tail fin with 2-3 rows of small black spots or with dark border.
Reaches 6.9 cm.
Primarily freshwater, but occasionally in brackish water.
Depth: 0-1 m.
Jamaica.

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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- Freshwater
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Detritivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Detritus
- Insects
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- No pelagic phase
- No pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- GC endemic
- Island (s) only
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Antilles endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 6.9
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 1