Gambusia hurtadoi

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| image = Gambusia hurtadoi.jpg

| image_caption = Female Gambusia hurtadoi in aquarium.

| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Lyons, T.J. |author2=Espinosa-Perez, H. |author3=Valdes Gonzales, A. |author4=Vega-Cendejas, M. |date=2019 |title=Gambusia hurtadoi |volume=2019 |page=e.T8893A3147754 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T8893A3147754.en |access-date=14 November 2021}}

| taxon = Gambusia hurtadoi

| authority = C. L. Hubbs & V. G. Springer, 1957{{Cof record |spid=13780 |title=Gambusia hurtadoi |access-date=1 September 2019}}

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Gambusia hurtadoi, also known as crescent gambusia, is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae.{{Fishbase|Gambusia|hutadoi|month=August|year=2019}} It is endemic to Chihuahua in Mexico, where it is known as guayacon de Hacienda Dolores. It grows to {{convert|3.5|cm|abbr=on}} total length. The species was described in 1957 by Carl Leavitt Hubbs and Victor G. Springer with the type locality given as El Ojo de la Hacienda Dolores, 7 miles south of Jiminez, Chihuahua, the spring to which this species is endemic. Hubbs and Springer honoured the Mexican Leopoldo Hurtado Olin of the Departamento de Economía in Chihuahua for his assistance during their collecting expedition to Chihuahua in June 1951. Hurtado Olin also informed Hubbs and Springer of the location of El Ojo de la Hacienda Dolores.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cyprinodontiformes4/ | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 26 October 2019 | title= Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE | accessdate = 2 November 2019 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}

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