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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