Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Nicaraguan gambusia

  FAMILY -               Poeciliidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Gambusia nicaraguensis

  REFERENCES - 01

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Corozal                                                              1
  Toledo                                                               1
  Stann Creek                                                          1
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Ambergris Cay                         Collected as voucher                  1
  Burdon Canal Nature Reserve           Collected as voucher                  1
  Mango Creek Forest Reserve            Collected as voucher                  1
  Sarstoon Delta Wildlife Sanctuary     Collected as voucher                  1
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Coastal                              1
  Temash River                         1
  

  Elevation        Reference

  1-200 m               1
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 52'35" to 18 11'30"; 87 49' to 88 03'     1
  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15'           1
  16 30' to 16 45'; 88 15' to 88 30'           1
  15 50' to 16 00'; 88 50' to 89 15'           1
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical     1
  Tropical wet-transition to Subtropical       1
  

  General Distribution Comments

  1*  All collections in Belize have been either in seawater at offshore
      localities or at river mouths in waters of high salinity.

  References

  1   Greenfield, D. W., J. E. Thomerson. 1997. Fishes of the Continental
      Waters of Belize.  University of Florida Press.