Reference List

This list includes references used to derive specimen records as well as those with scientific name Channa argus listed in key words.

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18857 Database 2009. Florida Museum of Natural History - Ichthyology Collection Database. Florida Museum of Natural History. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Collection/collection.htm.
31625 Conference Proceedings 2018. Abstracts of the 1st International Snakehead Symposium in Odenkirk, J.S, ed. held July 18-19, 2018 in Alexandria, VA.
20883 Database Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia. 2011. Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia - Ichthyology Collection. Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia. http://clade.ansp.org/ichthyology/collections/fish.php.
13782 News Anonymous. 2004. Snakehead found in Fairfax Creek. Washington Post. June 4, 2004.
14000 News Anonymous. 2004. Another female snakehead caught. The Washington Post. July 10:B03. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40076-2004Jul9.html17/13/2004.
29620 Database Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. 2017. Northern snakehead (Channa argus) collections in Arkansas in 2016. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Created on 03/17/2017.
14049 News Associated Press. 2004. Relief in Chicago: No more 'Frankenfish'. ABC News. October 19. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=180105.
13773 News Associated Press. 2004. Another Snakehead Found In Potomac River. Newsday.com. May 17.
13783 News Associated Press. 2004. Another snakehead caught in Potomac. Virginia News. June 7, 2004.
13326 News Baltimore Sun. 2002. Asian alien strikes. Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. 7 (8).
29521 Database Barnett, J. 2016. Arkansas ANS Database. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Benton, AR. Accessed on 10/10/2016.
32005 Database Barnett, J. 2018. Arkansas ANS Data for 2017. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Created on 09/05/2018. Accessed on 09/05/2018.
13891 News Bergman, J. 2004. Angler snags largest snakehead this year in a Potomac tributary. DailyPress.com. June 18, 2004. http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/.
13784 News Bradley, P. 2004. Experts on the hunt for 'Frankenfish'. Richmond Times-Dispatch. June 7, 2004.
14957 News Brasher, B. 2006. Snakes alive! Even dead, it's worry. http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/outdoors/article/0,1426,MCA_470_4381698,00.html.
14962 News Brasher, B. 2006. A case of mistaken identity for vicious fish; Shelby Forest snakehead not THAT snakehead. Commercialappeal.com. January 19. http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/outdoors/article/0,1426,MCA_470_4398618,00.html.
27289 News Carletti and Gillis. 2010. Welland Canal safe from “Frankenfish.”. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ontario. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/845494--welland-canal-safe-from-frankenfish. Accessed on 09/20/2010.
29007 Journal Article Cohen, M.K., and J.A. MacDonald. 2016. Northern Snakeheads in New York City. Northeastern Naturalist 23(1):11-24. http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1656/045.023.0102.
24436 Report Cohen, M.K., J.A. MacDonald, and A.M. Brinton. 2011. Northern snakeheads in two New York City lakes over four years. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/meadwillrep.pdf.
13490 Report Courtenay, W.R., Jr., and J.D. Williams. 2004. Snakeheads (Pisces: Channidae): A biological synopsis and risk assessment. Circular 1251. United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
18521 Report Cudmore, B., and N.E. Mandrak. 2005. Risk assessment for Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) in Canada. (DRAFT). Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
13327 News Dewar, H. 2002. Angler finds Crofton pond holds more snakeheads. Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. 7 (10).
13776 News Dixon, J. 2004. Press Release: Another snakehead fish caught in Potomac River. VA Dept of Game and Inland Fisheries.
13892 News Fahrenthold, D.A., and J. Partlow. 2004. Snakehead may be at home in Potomac River. Washington Post. June 30, 2004. http://washingtonpost.com.
25899 Database Florida Museum of Natural History. 2013. Florida Museum of Natural History ichthyology collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://www.gbif.org/dataset/eccf4b09-f0c8-462d-a48c-41a7ce36815a. Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL. http://www.gbif.org/dataset/eccf4b09-f0c8-462d-a48c-41a7ce36815a. Accessed on 04/09/2013.
24021 Journal Article Gascho Landis, A.M., and N.W.R. Lapointe. 2010. First record of a northern snakehead (Channa argus Cantor) nest in North America. Northeastern Naturalist 17(2):325-332. http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1656/045.017.0214.
24019 Journal Article Gascho Landis, A.M., N.W.R. Lapointe, and P.L. Angermeier. 2011. Individual growth and reproductive behavior in a newly established population of northern snakehead (Channa argus), Potomac River, USA. Hydrobiologia 661:123-131.
26212 Database GBIF. 2013. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Database. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://www.gbif.org/. Accessed on 05/01/2013.
20574 Journal Article Glass, M.L., A. Ishimatsu, and K. Johansen. 1985. Responses of aerial ventilation to hypoxia and hypercapnia in Channa argus, an air-breathing fish. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 156(3):425-430.
25960 Database Harvard University. 2013. Museum of Comparative Zoology specimen collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14100. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14100. Created on 04/11/2012. Accessed on 04/10/2013.
14048 News Hawthorne, M. 2004. Predator fish's origin a mystery. Chicago Tribune. October 31. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0410310257oct31,1,231028.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed.
29512 Web Page Heggenstaller, A. 2017. Shots in the Dark. https://www.americanhunter.org/articles/2017/2/16/shots-in-the-dark/. Created on 02/16/2017. Accessed on 02/23/2017.
16091 News Henderson, B. 2007. If you catch this Asian fish, keep it and call the law. The Charlotte Observer. 2007 (May 31). http://www.charlotte.com/112/story/141796.html (accessed May 31, 2007).
17385 Journal Article Herborg, L.M., N.E. Mandrak, B.C. Cudmore, and H.J. MacIsaac. 2007. Comparative distribution and invasion risk of snakehead (Channidae) and Asian carp (Cyprinidae) species in North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1723-1735. http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/biology/macisaac/pages/mattcjfas.pdf.
18938 Report Holt, L., and J. Farwick. 2009. Northern snakehead Channa argus eradication in Piney and Little Piney creeks, Arkansas. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
29522 Database Horodysky, K. 2017. Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Henrico, VA. Created on 03/02/2017.
24020 Journal Article Jiao, Y., N.W.R. Lapointe, P.L. Angermeier, and B.R. Murphy. 2009. Hierarchical demographic approaches for assessing invasion dynamics of non-indigenous species: an example using northern snakehead (Channa argus). Ecological Modelling 220(13-14):1681-1689. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380009002592.
26892 Journal Article King, T.L., and R.L. Johnson. 2011. Novel tetra-nucleotide microsatellite DNA markers for assessing the evolutionary genetics and demographics of Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) invading North America. Conservation Genetics Resources 3(1):1-4.
30341 Journal Article Kramer, A.M., G. Annis, M.E. Wittmann, W.L. Chadderton, E.S. Rutherford, D.M. Lodge, L. Mason, D. Beletsky, C. Riseng, and J.M. Drake. 2017. Suitability of Laurentian Great Lakes for invasive species based on global species distribution models and local habitat. Ecosphere 8(7):e01883. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1883.
26878 Database Lapointe, N. 2014. Northern Snakehead Master Dataset from tracking study.
19400 Thesis or Dissertation Lapointe, N.W.R. 2010. Fish invasions in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Ph D Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic University.
26883 Journal Article Lapointe, N.W.R., J.S. Odenkirk, and P.L. Angermeier. 2013. Seasonal movement, dispersal, and home range of Northern Snakehead Channa argus (Actinopterygii, Perciformes) in the Potomac River. Hydrobiologia 709(1):73-87.
19591 Journal Article Lapointe, N.W.R., J.T. Thorson, and P.L. Angermeier. 2010. Seasonal meso- and microhabitat selection by the northern snakehead (Channa argus) in the Potomac River system. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 19:566-577.
26408 Database Loftus, A. 2011. Multi State Aquatic Resources Information System (MARIS) Master Database records via Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON).
31667 Database Love, J. 2018. Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) in the Chesapeake Bay region tributaries. Maryland DNR, Annapolis, MD. Created on 08/02/2018.
31187 Journal Article Love, J.W., and J.J. Newhard. 2018. Expansion of Northern Snakehead in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147(2):342-349. https://doi.org/10.1002/tafs.10033.
29304 Journal Article Love, J.W., J.J. Newhard, and B. Greenfield. 2015. A GIS approach for suitable habitat and population size of northern snakehead, an invasive fish. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 6(1):145-157.
26873 Database Lyon, Luke. 2014. Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) data (2007-2013) from the Potomac and Anacostia rivers in the District of Columbia (unpublished). District Department of the Environment, Washington, DC. Created on 06/05/2014.
13325 News MacGillis, A. 2002. Amateur anglers aim to hook a snakehead. The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD. 7 (7).
24160 Database Martel, G. 2005. Channa argus Records from the Potomac River Drainage. Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
24103 Web Page Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 2008. Freshwater Fishing Reports. http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/fishingreport/freshwater.asp. Accessed 7/30/2008.
26389 Database Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 2010. Maryland Department of Natural Resources Inland Fisheries Database via MARIS. Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
31467 Web Page Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 2018. Mechanicsville man catches record snakehead in Charles County. http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2018/05/30/mechanicsville-man-catches-record-snakehead-in-charles-county/. Created on 06/01/2018. Accessed on 06/01/2018.
13328 News Mayell, H. 2002. Mayland wages war on invasive walking fish. National Geographic. 7 (2).
18594 Report Mendoza, R., S. Contreras, P. Koleff, C. Ramirez, C. Escalera, P. Alvarez, B. Cudmore, N. Mandrak, J.P. Fisher, R. Orr, W. Courtenay, G. Greene, and D. Lee. 2009. Proposed trinational risk assessment guidelines for invasive alien species: test cases for the snakeheads (Channidae) and armored catfishes (Loricariidae) in North American waters. Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
16096 News Mimoni, V.G. 2007. 'Frankenfish' caught in park lake. Queen Courier Online-News. 2007 (May 23). http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2007/05/31/news/news03.txt (accessed 6/1/07).
30022 Web Page Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. 2017. First confirmed snakehead fish caught in Mississippi lake. https://www.mdwfp.com/media/press-releases/fishing-boating/first-confirmed-snakehead-fish-caught-in-mississippi-lake/. Created on 06/08/2017. Accessed on 06/08/2017.
26387 Database New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC). 2007. New York State Freshwater Fisheries Database via MARIS. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY.
24182 Database New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 2012. New York State Fish Data from Public Waters. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
25761 Database Newhard, J. 2012. Northern snakehead tagging study data in the Potomac River, 2009-2012 (unpublished data). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annapolis, MD. Created on 03/04/2013.
26870 Database Newhard, J. 2014. Northern snakehead (Channa argus) collection data from the Potomac drainage for 2008. (Unpublished). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annapolis, MD. Created on 05/28/2014.
20908 Database North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. 2011. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Ichthyology Collection Database. North Carolina Museum of Natural History. http://collections.naturalsciences.org/searchFishes.aspx. Accessed on 02/14/2014.
19619 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
13807 News O'Brien, D. 2004. DNA test set for fish caught in Potomac. BaltimoreSun.com. June 8, 2004.
24163 Database Odenkirk, J. 2006. Snakeheads from the Potomac River Drainage. Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
15735 Journal Article Odenkirk, J., and S. Owens. 2005. Northern snakeheads in the tidal Potomac River system. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134(6):1605-1609. http://afsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1577/T05-085.1.
17185 Journal Article Odenkirk, J., and S. Owens. 2007. Expansion of a northern snakehead population in the Potomac River system. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1633-1639.
26386 Journal Article Odenkirk, J., C. Lim, S. Owens, and M. Isel. 2013. Insight into age and growth of northern snakehead in the Potomac River. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33:773-776.
29012 Journal Article Odenkirk, J.S., and M.W. Isel. 2016. Trends in abundance of Northern Snakeheads in Virginia tributaries of the Potomac River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145(4):687-692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2016.1149516.
14243 Book Okada, Y. 1960. Studies on the Freshwater Fishes of Japan. Volume 4, No. 3. Prefectural University of Mie, Tsu, Japan.
14517 Journal Article Orrell, T.M., and L. Weigt. 2005. The Northern Snakehead Channa argus (Anabantomorpha: Channidae), a non-indigenous fish species in the Potomac River, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(2):407-415.
18105 Journal Article Owens, S.J., J.S. Odenkirk, and R. Greenlee. 2008. Northern snakehead movement and distribution in the tidal Potomac River system. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 62:161-167.
14881 News Partlow, Joshua. 2005. In Rain's Wake, a Deluge of Snakeheads. Washington Post. Oct 11:1-3. washingtonpost.com.
13929 Web Page Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. 2004. Another exotic species confirmed in PA waters. http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Fish_Boat/newsreleases/2004/snakehead.htm.
24171 Journal Article Poulos, H.M, B. Chernoff, P.L. Fuller, and D. Butman. 2012. Ensemble forecasting of potential habitat for three invasive species. Aquatic Invasions 7(1):59-72.
26048 Journal Article Pound, K.L., W.H. Nowlin, D.G. Huffman, and T.H. Bonner. 2011. Trophic ecology of a nonnative population of suckermouth catfish (Hypostomus plecostomus) in a central Texas spring-fed system. Environmental Biology of Fishes 90:277-285. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-010-9741-7.
31989 Journal Article Rahel, F.J. 2004. Unauthorized fish introductions: Fisheries management of the people, for the people, or by the people? American Fisheries Society Symposium 44:431-441. http://www.uwyo.edu/frahel/pdfs/rahel-2004-1.pdf.
31355 Journal Article Resh, C.A., M.P. Galaska, and A.R. Mahon. 2018. Genomic analyses of Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) populations in North America. PeerJ 6:e4581. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4581.
24962 Journal Article Saylor, R.K., N.W.R. Lapointe, and P.L. Angermeier. 2012. Diet of non-native northern snakehead (Channa argus) compared to three co-occurring predators in the lower Potomac River, USA. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 21:443-452. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0633.2012.00563.x/abstract.
29795 Journal Article Schmidt, J. 2001. Asian snakeheads genus Channa. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 6:62-73.
26900 Journal Article Serrao, N.R., D. Steinke, and R.H. Hanner. 2014. Calibrating snakehead diversity with DNA barcodes: expanding taxonomic coverage to enable identification of potential and established invasive species. PLoS ONE 9(6):e99546. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099546.
14908 Report Shafland, P., W. Courtenay, J. Fury, and J. Hill. 2005. Scientists challenge snakehead myths - Informational release, August 20, 2005.
20958 News Sharpe, C. 2011. Invasive fish species found in Del. delmarvanow.com. 7 (29). http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110729/NEWS01/107290306.
27944 Journal Article Simmons, M., A.R. Mahon, A. Tucker, W.L. Chadderton, and C.L. Jerde. 2015. Active and passive environmental DNA surveillance of aquatic invasive species. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(10.1139/cjfas-2015-0262).
20915 Database Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. 2011. National Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Zoology Ichthyology Collection. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/fishes/. Accessed on 03/26/2013.
13876 Report Snakehead Advisory Panel. 2002. Second report to the Maryland Secretary of natural resources.
13329 Report Snakehead Scientific Advisory Panel. 2002. First Report to the Maryland Secretary of Natural Resources. Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, MD. http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000113/004000/004189/unrestricted/20071038e.pdf.
24001 Journal Article Starnes, W.C., J. Odenkirk, and M.J. Ashton. 2011. Update and analysis of fish occurrences in the lower Potomac River drainage in the vicinity of Plummers Island, Maryland-Contribution XXXI to the natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 124(4):280-309.
31471 Database Stetzar, E. 2018. Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) locations in Delaware, 2015-2016. Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover, DE. Created on 06/04/2018.
13323 News Thomson, C. 2002. Fishing out the northern snakehead. Baltimore Sun. 7 (2):3 pp.
13324 News Thomson, C. 2002. Pond most likely has more than one snakehead. Baltimore Sun. 6 (3).
13320 News Thomson, C. 2002. It lurks in Crofton's waters. Baltimore Sun. 6 (22).
13321 News Thomson, C. 2002. Search continues for predatory fish in Crofton pond. Baltimore Sun. 6 (26).
13322 News Thomson, C. 2002. Wanted: The one that got away. Baltimore Sun. 6 (30).
24855 Journal Article Uchida, K., and M. Fujimoto. 1933. Life history and method of culture of the Corean snake-head fish, Ophiocephalus argus.. Bull. Fish. Exp. Stn. Chosen 3:1-91.
31377 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
13766 News Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. 2004. Snakehead found in Virginia waters. http://releasesusnewswirecom/GetReleaseasp?id=174-051020045/11/2004. 2004 (May 10).
15320 News Washington Post. 2004. Attack of the killer fish. The Washington Post Company. 2004 (23 May). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48573-2004May22.html5/24/2004.
28829 Journal Article Wegleitner, B.J., A. Tucker, W.L. Chadderton, and A.R. Mahon. 2016. Identifying the genetic structure of introduced populations of northern snakehead (Channa argus) in Eastern USA. Aquatic Invasions 11(2):199-208.
31417 Web Page West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. 2018. Dead northern snakehead fish found on Opequon Creek in Berkeley County. http://www.wvdnr.gov/2018news/18news041.shtm. Created on 05/17/2018. Accessed on 05/17/2018.
27293 Journal Article Zhang, X., S. Gong, J. Liu, X. He, and J. Gao. 1999. Studies on age and growth of Channa argus in the Wanghu Lake. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica 23:600-603. http://europepmc.org/abstract/cba/573196.


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