Talk:Mosquitofish

message: Updated a bit and reformatted with taxobox etc.; moved to conform to FishBase name. —Tkinias 10:17, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed a line that someone added "some of this info comes from websites with false information" which does not back up its claims.  In the future if you'd like to fix the inaccuracies of this article please include references so we know what's wrong and why you changed them.  208.26.45.85 14:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know it's been a long time since the comment above, but my philosophy is to take anything from about.com with a large grain of salt. Probably what the previous editor was referencing is that the Gambusia genus is considered an introduced species to most of the world and has documented consequences (as noted in the second URL listed in Links). That same site says that the claim of the ability of the fish to significantly control mosquito populations is dubious. I'm assuming the claim in this article ("where it has long been known that they feed readily on the aquatic larval and pupal stages of mosquitoes") comes from the about.com article, but I don't know since I make a point to not visit about.com.68.88.66.217 (talk) 02:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: ...but isn't this the fish that has the largest penis to body size of any animal?
--Ebz 18:25, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so, a quick google search seems to point to the barnacle for that particular honor.  Norvy 05:56, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  I dont mean to be crude.... 

message: The mosquito fish is now being used in California to combat outbreaks of West Nile Virus in stagnant  pools of water. Apparently, mosquito fish, can eat 500 larvae a day, and residents bring home a batch of fish to put in any stagnant water sites of concern. Contra Costa county has a full-time crew that visits abandoned swimming pools and stocks them with mosquito fish. []
...just something for another editor to consider for inclusion Kungfp (talk) 17:48, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mosquito fish in Western US 

message: 0.5" - 3", with the females larger than the males.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.152.167 (talk) 11:24, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: I'm certainly not a fan of rampant species introduction or exotic pests, but two thirds of the article is about the fish's introduction to Australia...and so is half the introductory paragraph! I live where these guys are the endemic mosquito larva predators, so I think a single sentence in the Overview about their world travels would be plenty. It's not the fish's fault that people apparently like to take it everywhere.
Then perhaps the section about their introduction into other environments could be expanded to be more general, and to use examples in addition to Australia/New Zealand, with some citations for the ecological damage studies. Right now the whole article reads a bit like a rant; it overshadows the basic physiological information that I was looking for, and has a sort of breathless zeal that makes me feel skeptical, even though I'm sure it's perfectly accurate.
Jdrum00 (talk) 18:21, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have split out the Australian section to Mosquitofish in Australia. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 09:41, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sort of dominated by the Aussie viewpoint, isn't it? 

message: *http://www.yale-university.org/eeb/stearns/pdf/10.Stearns1983Evolution.pdf
*http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/75/
*http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643310004435
*https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/ojs/index.php/wnan/article/viewFile/203/1314
*http://wildlife.utah.gov/pdf/AIS_plans_2010/AIS_12oWesternMosquitofish-Jenny-final.pdf
*http://fieldguide.mt.gov/detail_AFCNC02010.aspx
*http://pubstorage.sdstate.edu/wfs/382-F.pdf
::Patvac-chs (talk) 23:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Patvac-chs (talk) 00:22, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Related Cites

message: *http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Gambusia_affinis.htm
*http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?fr=1&si=126
*http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=846
*http://www.bio.txstate.edu/~tbonner/txfishes/gambusia%20affinis.htm  
*http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=E8QWAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA178-IA7&dq=the+introduction+of+gambusia+affinis&ots=WaOs0UB8Fd&sig=E9kMzgYIZ8sN4q2We3meyfKIvMk#v=onepage&q=the%20introduction%20of%20gambusia%20affinis&f=false
*http://www.jstor.org/pss/2461558
*http://www.mendeley.com/research/trophic-microvilli-belated-embryos-gambusia-affinis-baird-girard-atheriniformes-poeciliidae-1/
*http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10617862
*http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Gambusia-affinis.html 
*http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21154752 
*http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=165896&print_version=PRT&source=to_print
*http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.1402660506/abstract
*http://wdfw.wa.gov/ais/species.php?Name=gambusia_affinis
*http://www.gambusia.net/ACmosquito.html  
*http://www.jstor.org/pss/1438757
*http://www.emro.who.int/rbm/publications/fishmanual.pdf
*http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1988.tb05463.x/abstract
*http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/11/BAH411N6UP.DTL
::Patvac-chs (talk) 00:22, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cites used in article

message: I cited the two books as examples to follow, the web references. The remaining web references are devoid of citation information (just a web address), thus the template is meaningless. You need to visit these cites and glean the details for complete citations using the correct format.--JimmyButler (talk) 02:49, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Are the remaining improperly cited cites reliable enough for references? Patvac-chs (talk) 00:07, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You have a  on some information in your article. You should probably take care of that ASAP. Der Elbenkoenig (talk) 02:21, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 

message: The lead section statses that the fish's "similar species are...." The reference of this fact appears reliable at first glance, but what are "similar species"? Is "similar species" a scientifically defined term, and is it important information to the article of Gambusia affinis? If so, I do think it should be reworded: "similar species" are not a set of species that somehow belong to this one (they aren't it's similar species), but simply species of fish that the one could be considered similar to. So, I would either take that bit of information out or reword it to "Gambusia affinis is considered similar to..." but even that seems too awkward to fit into the article. Sorry if I'm too wordy here. Der Elbenkoenig (talk) 14:24, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I moved that information to the description section and it does seem to pertain to the description section more than any other section. Patvac-chs (talk) 04:04, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar species 

message: I know it doesn't account for much as far as wikipedia is concerned, but we've kept these in our koi pond for years and they are, in fact, cannibalistic (the article says scientists aren't sure). 173.22.73.154 (talk) 04:53, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact, experience shows that the majority of live-bearing poeciliids are, and this is a very widely-observed and well-documented phenomenon. If the fry don't seek cover soon after birth, they are at serious risk of predation from adult conspecifics for a week or more. 2A00:23C7:3131:FE01:240E:F814:5165:2CC6 (talk) 19:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal Experience

message: The article name seems unclear. Maybe the common name western mosquitofish per Wikipedia:FISH#Fish_names_and_article_titles to match eastern mosquitofish. 
Gambusia already exists and Mosquitofish is ambiguous. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 00:40, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I requested a move from this article to Western mosquitofish. Should "western mosquitofish" be used throughout the article instead of just "mosquitofish"?Patvac-chs (talk) 06:57, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Either if you can source it. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 10:39, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

text: Article moved to Western mosquitofish. Still open to using just mosquitofish if sources justify it and seems it may if eastern mosquitofish is an invalid taxonomic name. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 10:39, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The article seems to have been named back to simply "Mosquitofish"; if it's going under the "Mosquitofish" umbrella, oughtn't the eastern page be merged to this one?Zentomologist (talk) 19:47, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This article should be Moved to Western mosquitofish bacause it is about a single species (Gambusia affinis). There is another page for the Eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbroki). These are two distinct species recognized by the scientific community, as such they each deserve there own page. Including "Western" and "Eastern" in the title is necessary to avoid confusion. SeaPigman (talk) 19:30, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name