To confuse matters furthur, Steven George and I have looked at mosquitofish
from the Big Sunflower in Mississippi and find that THEY have serrated
gonopodia!
My questions are:
How good is the serrated gonopodium character ? Does it occur in affinis ?
Note - I have seen and read the Angus and Howell paper on gambusia which
indicates some degree of interspecific hybridization throughout native
range. Unfortunately their paper does not address the gonopodium character,
and I do not have any primary literature on this.
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