aurata, Gambusia Miller [R. R.] & Minckley [W. L.] 1970:249, Fig. 1 [Southwestern Naturalist v. 15 (no. 2); ref. 7782] Lateral canal flowing north off main canal from Río Mante, southern Ciudad Mante, Río Tamesi basin, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Holotype: UMMZ 188736. Paratypes: ASU 36 (7), 68 (5), 501 (1), 515 (2), 519 (5), 521 (18), 741 (1), 756 (2); UMMZ 97544 (3), 97545 (1), 97546 (3), 186498 (93 or 94, 2 c&s), 188737 (1, allotype); USNM 212231 (19). Type catalog: Parenti et al. 1999:5 [ref. 24072]. •Valid as Gambusia aurata Miller & Minckley 1970 -- (Rauchenberger 1989:3 [ref. 15687], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:45 [ref. 22290], Parenti et al. 1999:5 [ref. 24072], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:558 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:103 [ref. 27807], Lucinda & Reis 2005:41 [ref. 29205], Miller 2006:222 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2007:17 [ref. 30398], Langerhans et al. 2012:1530 [ref. 32308], Page et al. 2013:108 [ref. 32708], Meyer 2015:60 [ref. 34698], Huber 2019:60 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Valid as Gambusia aurata Miller & Minckley 1970. Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Tamesí River basin, Taumalipas, Atlantic slope of Mexico. Habitat: freshwater.