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Saltmarsh Topminnow
Fundulus jenkinsi
The saltmarsh topminnow (Fundulus jenkinsi) is a species of killifish of the family Fundulidae. It occurs in the coastal wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States.
From the article Saltmarsh topminnow on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Saltmarsh topminnows have little color in life; there is cross-hatching on the back and sides that may be gray-green or fainter, and 12 to 30 dark round spots are often arranged in rows along the midside of the body from above the pectoral fin to the base of the caudal fin.
What it does
Saltmarsh topminnows live in estuaries, coastal salt marshes and backwater sloughs including shallow tidal meanders of Spartina marshes. They are endemic to brackish water areas from Galveston Bay, Texas to Escambia Bay in the western panhandle of Florida.
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
In human culture
Fundulus jenkinsi was described in 1892 as Zygonectes jenkinsi by Barton Warren Evermann with the type locality given as Dickinson Bayou, near Galveston, Texas. The specific name honours the American physiologist Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1850-1935) of Stanford University.
Wikipedia: “Species description and etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Fundulus jenkinsi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 101058.