Reference List

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

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REFTypeCut-and-Paste Reference
24004 Report Allen, M.S., W. Tate, K.I. Tugend, M. Rogers, and K.J. Dockendorf. 2003. Effects of water-level fluctuations on the fisheries of Lake Tarpon. Final Report. Pinellas County Department of Environmental Management.
39508 Database Anonymous. 2022. Miami Fish Slam Data. USGS.
39777 Journal Article Austin, S. 1975. Exotics. The Florida Naturalist 48(3):2–5.
20938 Journal Article Baber, M.J., D.L. Childers, K.J. Babbitt, and D.H. Anderson. 2002. Controls on fish distribution and abundance in temporary wetlands. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:1441–1450.
25922 Database Canadian Museum of Nature. 2013. Canadian Museum of Nature ichthyology collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/121. Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/121. Created on 04/03/2007. Accessed on 04/09/2013.
13489 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
18543 Conference Proceedings Ceilley, D.W., and S.A. Bortone. 2000. A survey of freshwater fishes in the hydric flatwoods of Flint Pen Strand, Lee County, Florida. Page 70–91 in Cannizzaro, P.J, ed. Proceedings of the Twenty Seventh Annual Conference on Ecosystems Restoration and Creation. Hillsborough Community College. Plant City, FL.
24369 Database Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. 2024. EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system. The University of Georgia, Tifton, GA. https://www.eddmaps.org/tools/query/. Accessed on 01/27/2019.
41442 Database Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. 2023. Southwest Florida Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area invasive fish roundup.
14797 Report Courtenay, W.R., Jr. 1980. Survey of introduced non-native fishes in Florida: 1978-1979. Phase II Report. Submitted to National Fishery Reserch Laboratory, USFWS, Gainesville, FL.
165 Journal Article Courtenay, W.R., Jr., H.F. Sahlman, W.W. Miley II, and D.J. Herrema. 1974. Exotic fishes in fresh and brackish waters of Florida. Biological Conservation 6(4):292–302.
38479 Book Chapter Crabb, N. 1974. Exotic invaders in Florida waters. Page 13–16 in The Florida Naturalist. The Florida Naturalist.
29716 Journal Article Crutchfield, R. 2016. Current state of the invasion: 50 years of the Black Acara in Florida. American Currents 41(1):26–29. http://www.nanfa.org/ac/black-acara-florida.pdf.
465 Book Chapter Dineen, J.W. 1974. The fishes of the Everglades. Page 375–385 in Gleason, P.J, ed. Environments of South Florida: Present and Past. Miami Geological Society. Miami, FL.
24874 Report Ellis, G., M. Zokan, J. Lorenz, and B. Loftus. 2006. Biscayne National Park freshwater fish inventory and monitoring final report. National Park Service. https://irma.nps.gov/App/Reference/DownloadDigitalFile?code=435120&file=BISC_final_fish_report_2006.pdf.
18109 Report Ellis, G., M. Zokan, W.F. Loftus, J. Lorenz. 2004. Inventory of Freshwater Fishes of the Big Cypress National Preserve. http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/loftus_bicy/.
29166 Database Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. FL FWC Long-term monitoring database. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL.
18857 Database Florida Museum of Natural History. 2009. Ichthyology Collection database. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/fishes/.
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.
20969 Database Florida Museum of Natural History. 2011. Complete collection records of US holdings of Cichlasoma bimaculatum and Hoplosternum littorale at FLMNH. Provided by Rob Robins on 20 July 2011.
26212 Database GBIF. 2013. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Database. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://www.gbif.org/. Accessed on 03/05/2024.
24003 Report Hicks, D.C., and S.M. Deitche. 2005. Annotated checklist of the fishes of the Brooker Creek Preserve, Pinellas County, Florida. Pinellas County Department of Environmental Management.
40842 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
25944 Database iNaturalist. 2024. http://www.inaturalist.org/. Accessed on 08/13/2024.
483 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
24377 Database Krebs, J. 2012. Collection data on introduced cichlids in Wares and Archie Creeks. Provided by Justin Krebs on March 13, 2012.
464 Journal Article Kushlan, J.A. 1972. The exotic fish (Aequidens portalegrensis) in the Big Cypress Swamp. Florida Naturalist 45:29.
33810 Journal Article Lansdell, W., b. Dixon, N. Smith, and L. Benjamin. 1993. Communications: Isolation of several Mycobacterium species from fish. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 5(1):73–76. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/1548-8667(1993)005<0073%3ACIOSMS>2.3.CO%3B2.
466 Conference Proceedings Loftus, W.F. 1988. Distribution and ecology of exotic fishes in Everglades National Park. Page 24–34 in Thomas, Jr., L.K, ed. Management of exotic species in natural communities. Proceedings of the Conference on Science in the National Parks, July 13-18, 1986, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. The U.S. National Park Service and George Wright Society.
14428 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
463 Journal Article Loftus, W.F., and J.A. Kushlan. 1987. Freshwater fishes of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 31(4):147–344. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/files/1114/7180/5011/Vol-31-No-4.PDF.
19660 Report Loftus, W.F., J.C. Trexler, K. Dunker, S. Liston, and J. Rehage. 2006. Introduced fishes in short-hydroperiod wetlands: evaluation of sampling, status, and potential effects. Final report from USGS to Everglades National Park for Agreement # CESI IA F5284-04-0039. U.S. Geological Survey, Homestead, FL.
14163 Web Page Lohrer, F.E. 2005. Fishes of Buck Island Ranch, Lake Placid, Florida: A preliminary checklist. http://www.maerc.org/html/datapublications/biota_splist/fishes.html. Created on 02/10/2005. Accessed on 05/01/2013.
26295 Journal Article Mérigoux, S., and D. Ponton. 1998. Body shape, diet and ontogenetic diet shifts in young fish of the Sinnamary River, French Guiana, South America. Journal of Fish Biology 52:556–569. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1998.tb02017.x/abstract.
25976 Database North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. 2013. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences ichthyology collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8099. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC. http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8099. Created on 02/10/2009. Accessed on 04/11/2013.
16100 Journal Article Pearlstine, E., W.M. Bear, F.J. Mazzotti, and K.G. Rice. 2007. Checklist of fish in rice and sugarcane fields of the Everglades Agricultural Area. Florida Scientist 70:113–119.
34160 Journal Article Robins, R.H., M.E. Brown, and R.A. Crutchfield. 2020. Identification of acara (Cichlidae: Cichlasoma) established in Florida, USA. BioInvasions Records 9(1):133–135. https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2020/1/BIR_2020_Robins_etal.pdf.
26296 Journal Article Rogers, M.W., and M.S. Allen. 2008. Hurricane impacts to Lake Okeechobee: altered hydrology creates difficult management trade offs. Fisheries 33(1):11–17. https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8446-33.1.11.
27192 Database Schofield, P.J. 2014. Fish slam collection data from 2014 south Florida (sampling in canals in south Miami-Dade county). U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 11/21/2014. Accessed on 01/22/2015.
29311 Database Schofield, P.J. 2016. Fish Slam - Fall 2016. U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 01/12/2017.
29757 Database Schofield, P.J. 2017. Fish Slam Spring 2017 data (unpublished). U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 04/12/2017.
31023 Database Schofield, P.J. 2017. Fish Slam Fall 2017 collection data in south Florida. U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 02/06/2018.
32291 Database Schofield, P.J. 2018. Fish slam data in south Florida Fall 2018, November 6-7. U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 11/29/2018.
33937 Database Schofield, P.J. 2019. Fish slam data in south Florida, November 2019. Created on 11/22/2019.
35671 Database Schofield, P.J. 2021. Virtual Statewide Fish Slam, March 15-19, 2021. U.S. Geological Survey (Unpublished data), Gainesville, FL. Created on 04/19/2021. Accessed on 04/19/2021.
20885 Journal Article Schofield, P.J., and D.H. Huge. 2011. Low-temperature tolerance of two non-native fishes (Hoplosternum littorale [Hancock 1828], Cichlasoma bimaculatum [Linnaeus 1758]) established in Florida. Florida Scientist 74(2):73–83.
29063 Report South Florida Water Management District, Loxahatchee River District and Florida Department of Environmental Protection. 2012. Addendum to the Restoration Plan for the Northwest Fork of the Loxahatchee River.
26020 Database Swedish Museum of Natural History. 2013. Swedish Museum of Natural History ichthyology collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1023. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden. http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1023. Created on 04/03/2007. Accessed on 04/11/2013.
45537 Database SWFL CISMA. 2025. Invasive Fish Roundup.
13672 Journal Article Tilmant, J.T. 1999. Management of nonindigenous aquatic fish in the U.S. National Park System. Paper presented at the 129th Annual Meeting of The American Fisheries Society, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 1, 1999 129:50.
1939 Journal Article Trexler, J.C., W.F. Loftus, F. Jordan, J.J. Lorenz, J.H. Chick, and R.M. Kobza. 2000. Empirical assessment of fish introductions in a subtropical wetland: an evaluation of contrasting views. Biological Invasions 2:265–277.
14257 Web Page U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2005. National Wildlife Refuge System Invasive Species. http://www.nwrinvasives.com/index.asp (Last accessed 2006).
26307 Report Volin, J.C., D. Owen, K.J. Dunker, S.W. Kirkpatrick, W.L. Loftus, and W.A. Dunson. 2004. The impact of invasive non-indigenous fish on wetland restoration at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation. Final report to the USGS State Partnership Program. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.


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