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Courtenay, W.R., Jr., D.P. Jennings, and J.D. Williams. 1991. Appendix 2: Exotic fishes. Pages 97-107 in Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea, and W.B. Scott, eds. Common names and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. 5th edition. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, MD.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 459
Type: Book Chapter
Author: Courtenay, W.R., Jr., D.P. Jennings, and J.D. Williams.
Date (year): 1991
Book Title: Common names and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada.
Editor: Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea, and W.B. Scott
Edition: 5th
Chapter Title:Appendix 2: Exotic fishes
Publisher:American Fisheries Society
Publisher Location:Bethesda, MD
Volume:
Pages: 97-107
URL:
Keywords: exotic, introduced, fishes, taxonomy
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Ancistrus cf. temminckii

    HI - state non-specific

Anguilla anguilla

    CA - Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Contra Costa County

Archocentrus nigrofasciatus

    AZ - Mesa
    AZ - borrow pit near eastern Phoenix
    AZ - Mesa
    AZ - borrow pit near eastern Phoenix
    FL - state non-specific
    HI - state non-specific

Archocentrus spilurus

    HI - state non-specific

Astronotus ocellatus

    PA - state non-specific

Bairdiella icistia

    CA - Salton Sea

Carassius auratus

    MI - state non-specific

Cephalopholis argus

    HI - non-specific marine location

Chirostoma jordani

    TX - Amistad Reservoir
    TX - Rio Grande River, Falcon Reservoir

Clarias batrachus

    GA - Flint River
    NV - Rogers Spring (Overton Arm of Lake Mead)

Colisa lalia

    FL - east of Ruskin
    FL - Lake Worth Drainage District canal L-15, west of Atlantis and Lantana

Colossoma or Piaractus sp.

    AZ - state non-specific
    MO - state non-specific
    OH - Lake Erie near electric plant in Painesville, east of Cleveland

Corydoras sp.

    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)
    FL - state non-specific

Ctenopharyngodon idella

    AR - state non-specific
    CA - state non-specific
    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)

Ctenopharyngodon idella triploid

    DE - state non-specific

Ctenopharyngodon idella

    ID - Snake River above and below Shoshone Falls
    KY - state non-specific
    MA - state non-specific
    MD - state non-specific
    MN - Snake River
    NE - state non-specific
    SC - state non-specific
    UT - state non-specific

Cynoscion xanthulus

    CA - Salton Sea

Danio rerio

    CA - state non-specific
    FL - canal west of Lantana
    NM - McCauley Spring

Devario malabaricus

    FL - state non-specific
    NV - Rogers Spring (Overton Arm of Lake Mead)

Gymnocorymbus ternetzi

    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)

Hemigrammus ocellifer

    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)

Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus

    HI - non-specific marine location

Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

    KS - state non-specific

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis

    IN - state non-specific

Hypostomus sp.

    NV - state non-specific

Labeo chrysophekadion

    FL - state non-specific

Leporinus fasciatus

    FL - state non-specific

Macropodus opercularis

    FL - Lake Worth Drainage District canal L-15, west of Atlantis and Lantana

Melanochromis auratus

    NV - Rogers Spring (Overton Arm of Lake Mead)
    NV - Rogers Spring (Overton Arm of Lake Mead)

Metynnis sp.

    FL - state non-specific

Oncorhynchus masou

    WA - Hewitt Lake

Oreochromis aureus

    AZ - Gila River, north of Yuma
    CA - below Laguna Dam (just a few miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona
    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)
    FL - DeSoto County
    FL - Hardee County
    FL - Hernando County
    FL - Lake County
    FL - Manatee County
    FL - Marion County
    FL - Orange County
    FL - Sarasota County
    FL - Seminole County
    FL - Volusia County
    OK - North Canadian River, northwest of Harrah, with a confirmed range of 383 km from Lake Overholser to Lake Eufaula
    OK - state non-specific
    TX - Canyon Reservoir [Guadalupe River]
    TX - Nasworthy Reservoir, Concho River
    TX - Amistad Reservoir drainage
    TX - Lake Fairfield

Oreochromis mossambicus

    CA - Salton Sea
    FL - Snapper Creek canal for about 9 km above its juncture with the Tamiami Canal
    FL - Tamiami Canal at U.S. highways 41 and 27
    FL - Comfort Canal
    FL - two canals east of Goulds
    IL - state non-specific
    MT - state non-specific

Oreochromis urolepis hornorum

    CA - Bolsa Chica Flood Control Channel in Huntington Beach

Osteoglossum bicirrhosum

    CA - Lake Berryessa
    NV - Forest Spring in Ash Meadows

Otocinclus sp.

    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)

Oxydoras niger

    FL - Biscayne Bay

Paracheirodon innesi

    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)

Pelvicachromis pulcher

    HI - state non-specific

Pethia conchonius

    FL - state non-specific

Pethia gelius

    FL - state non-specific

Phractocephalus hemioliopterus

    FL - state non-specific

Platichthys flesus

    ON - Lake Superior; Thunder Bay, just off McNab Point
    ON - Lake Erie, inner Long Point Bay, off Port Rowan
    OH - Lake Erie

Platydoras costatus

    FL - state non-specific

Poecilia mexicana

    CA - Drainage canal south of Mecca, at junction of Hwy 111 and Johnson Avenue [St.].
    TX - state non-specific

Pterodoras granulosus

    FL - Brooker Creek near Tarpon Lake, Pinellas County

Pterodoras sp.

    FL - state non-specific

Pterophyllum scalare

    FL - Lake Worth Drainage District Canal L-14, near a fish farm in Palm Beach County
    KY - state non-specific

Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus

    HI - state non-specific

Puntigrus tetrazona

    FL - state non-specific

Pygocentrus nattereri

    PA - state non-specific

Pygocentrus or Serrasalmus sp.

    ID - state non-specific
    IL - state non-specific
    KY - state non-specific
    MO - state non-specific
    NY - state non-specific
    OK - state non-specific

Salmo letnica

    MT - state non-specific
    WY - state non-specific

Thorichthys meeki

    AZ - canal in Mesa

Tilapia sparrmanii

    FL - state non-specific

Tilapia zillii

    AZ - Papago Park ponds, Phoenix
    NC - Beaufort County
    NC - a heated reservoir at Wilmington
    SC - Santee-Cooper Reservoir, a heated portion

Trichogaster fasciata

    PA - state non-specific

Trichogaster labiosa

    FL - Canal at W end of 15 Ave NW, Ruskin

Trichogaster trichopterus

    FL - Lake Worth Drainage District canal L-15, west of Atlantis and Lantana

Trichopodus leerii

    FL - Lake Worth Drainage District canal L-15, west of Atlantis and Lantana

Tridentiger trigonocephalus

    CA - San Francisco Bay
    CA - Los Angeles Harbor

Xenentodon cancila

    HI - Wahiawa Reservoir (=Lake Wilson), Oahu

Xiphophorus hellerii

    CA - Westminster near an aquarium fish farm
    CA - drainage canal near Oasis
    CA - Drainage canal south of Mecca, at junction of Hwy 111 and Johnson Avenue [St.].

Xiphophorus maculatus

    CA - Westminster near an aquarium fish farm
    CO - canals, ditches and ponds below the Weisbart and Weisbart Hog farm where tropical fish are being reared
    CO - San Luis Valley (Rio Grande headwaters drainage)
    MT - state non-specific
    NV - Indian Springs
    TX - state non-specific

Xiphophorus variatus

    AZ - Salt River at Tempe
    CA - Orange County
    CA - Riverside County, California drainage


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