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Gillichthys mirabilis (Longjaw mudsucker)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The longjaw mudsucker Gillichthys mirabilis is a goby (Gobiidae) of the Pacific Ocean coast of California and Baja California, noted for its extremely large mouth and ability to survive out of water for short periods. Their range extends from Tomales Bay in the north to Bahia Magdalena in the south. A population in the Salton Sea was introduced in 1950, and now thrives there. They are considered good bait fish for freshwater fishing, such as on the Colorado River, because they can be kept alive packed in moist algae, and will not reproduce in fresh water if they happen to escape.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Colorado Mexico, United States Nearctic Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve VI 2320468 Sonora, Mexico  
Point Reyes National Seashore II 27068 California, United States

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Clevelandia ios (Arrow goby)[1]
Fundulus parvipinnis (California killifish)[1]
Himasthla rhigedana[2]
Pachygrapsus crassipes (striped shore crab)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Egretta thula (Snowy Egret)[1]
Mustelus henlei (brown smoothhound)[2]
Pseudobatos productus (Shovel-nose shark)[2]
Rallus longirostris levipes (Light-footed Clapper Rail)[1]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0