Specimen ID | 26187 |
Group | Fishes |
Genus | Carassius |
Species | auratus |
Common Name | Goldfish |
Locality | Ohio River Valley |
Collection Year | 1875 |
Year Accuracy | Actual |
Potential Pathway | stocked for forage |
Status | established |
Reference 1 |
Ref. Number: | 163 |
Author: | Clay, W.M. |
Date: | 1975 |
Title: | The Fishes of Kentucky. |
Publisher: | Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources |
Pages: | 416 pp |
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Comments | Introduced some time in the last half of the nineteenth century, if not earlier. Stocked as bait/ornamental. |
Record Type | Literature |
Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |