| Specimen ID | 31975 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Pterophyllum |
| Species | scalare |
| Common Name | freshwater angelfish |
| State | FL |
| County | Palm Beach |
| Locality | Lake Worth Drainage District Canal L-14, near a fish farm in Palm Beach County |
| Mapping Accuracy | Approximate |
| HUC8 Name | Florida Southeast Coast |
| HUC8 Number | 03090206 |
| HUC10 Number | 0309020610 |
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| Collection Year | 1979 |
| Year Accuracy | Publication Year |
| Potential Pathway | escaped captivity aquaculture | released aquarium |
| Status | failed |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 14798 |
| Author: | Courtenay, W.R., Jr., and D.A. Hensley. |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Title: | Survey of introduced non-native fishes. Phase I Report: Introduced exotic fishes in North America: status 1979. |
| Publisher: | Submitted to National Fishery Research Laboratory, USFWS, Gainesville, FL. |
| Pages: | 399 pp |
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| Reference 2 |
| Ref. Number: | 10 |
| Author: | Courtenay, W.R., Jr., D.A. Hensley, J.N. Taylor, and J.A. McCann. |
| Date: | 1984 |
| Title: | Distribution of exotic fishes in the continental United States. |
| Publisher: | John Hopkins University Press |
| Pages: | 41-77 |
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| Reference 3 |
| Ref. Number: | 459 |
| Author: | Courtenay, W.R., Jr., D.P. Jennings, and J.D. Williams. |
| Date: | 1991 |
| Title: | Appendix 2: Exotic fishes |
| Publisher: | American Fisheries Society |
| Pages: | 97-107 |
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| Comments | Listed as Pterophyllum sp. in Courtenay and Hensley (1979), and as P. scalare by Courtenay et al. (1984, 1991). These represent the same record (W. Courtenay, pers. comm.) |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Earliest Record | state |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
