Reference List

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

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488 News Anonymous. 1972. photo of armored catfish. Sanford Herald. 3 February 1972.
39508 Database Anonymous. 2022. Miami Fish Slam Data. USGS.
41440 Database Anonymous. 2023. Ruskin Fish Slam Data. USGS.
42848 Database Anonymous. 2023. Ft. Myers Fish Slam data.
26026 Journal Article Ashe, D.E., T.N. Churchill, R.L. Noble, and C.G. Lilyestrom. 1998. Temporal variability in the littoral fish community of a Puerto Rico reservoir. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 52:39-48. http://www.seafwa.org/html/proceedings/index.php?article=12934.
14317 News Brean, H. 2004. Habitattitude campaign: Fish stories have bad endings. Las Vegas Review Journal. September 27, 2004. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Sep-27-Mon-2004/news/24847410.html.
15981 Journal Article Bunkley-Williams, L., E.H. Williams, Jr., C.G. Lilystrom, I. Corujo-Flores, A.J. Zerbi, C. Aliaume and T.N. Churchill. 1994. The South American sailfin catfish, Liposarcus multiradiatus (Hancock), a new exotic established in Puerto Rican fresh waters. Caribbean Journal of Science 30(1-2):90-94.
29907 Report Bureau of Natural and Cultural Resources. 2015. Florida Park Service Resource Management Annual Report. Florida Park Service.
24369 Database Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. 2019. EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system. The University of Georgia, Tifton, GA. https://www.eddmaps.org/tools/query/. Accessed on 01/27/2019.
18978 Journal Article Champeau, T.R., P.W. Stevens, and D.A. Blewett. 2009. Comparison of fish community metrics to assess long-term changes and hurricane impacts at Peace River, Florida. Biological Sciences 72(4):289-309.
14162 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
41442 Database Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. 2023. Southwest Florida Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area invasive fish roundup.
459 Book Chapter 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.
29040 Web Page Culbertson, J. 2016. Exotic fish discovered in urban bayous of Galveston Bay. https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/didyouknow/coastal/exotics.phtml. Accessed on 09/20/2016.
31487 Report Dennis, J., and R. Myers. 2015. Calaveras Reservoir 2015 Fisheries Management Survey Report. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Inland Fisheries Division, San Antonio, TX. https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/lake_survey/pwd_rp_t3200_1263_2015.pdf.
690 Conference Proceedings Devick, W.S. 1991. Pattern of introductions of aquatic organisms to Hawaii freshwater habitats. Pages 189-213 in W.S. Devick, ed. New directions in research, management and conservations of Hawaiian freshwater stream ecosystems. Proceedings of the 1990 Freshwater Stream Biology and Fisheries Management Symposium. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources. Honolulu, Hawaii.
23945 Report Dutka-Gianelli, J., D. Tremain, and R. Paperno. 2009. Fish assemblages in tidal and non-tidal freshwater tributaries of the Indian River Lagoon. Final report for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Project SWG06-010. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
13013 Journal Article Edwards, R.J. 2001. New additions and persistence of the introduced fishes of the Upper San Antonio River, Bexar County, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 53(1):3-12.
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.
23838 Database Field Museum of Natural History. 2011. Field Museum of Natural History - Ichthyology Collection Database. Field Museum of Natural History. http://www.fishnet2.net.
26402 Database Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2000. Florida Freshwater Fisheries Database via MARIS. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
25080 Database Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2012. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ichthyology collection database. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. http://www.fishnet2.net.
29166 Database Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. FL FWC Long-term monitoring database. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL.
19706 Report Florida LAKEWATCH, Department of Fisheres and Aquatic Sciences in cooperation with Florida FWCC. 2007. Long-term fish, plants, and water quality monitoring program: 2006 and 2007 data. http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu/Long-term_Fish_monitor/Long-Term_Fish_Monit_Program2006-07_Rpt.pdf.
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.
19000 Report Fraser, T.H. 2007. Fishes in the Peace River watershed: Ichthyological history and zoogeography of the Peace River, Florida, and its contributing basins. In: Peace River cumulative impact study, final report. http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/mines/pr_cis.htm.
18221 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
1875 Book Fuller, P.L., L.G. Nico, and J.D. Williams. 1999. Nonindigenous fishes introduced into inland waters of the United States. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 27. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
26212 Database GBIF. 2013. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Database. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. http://www.gbif.org/. Accessed on 03/05/2024.
24037 Journal Article Gestring, K.B., P.L. Shafland, and M.S. Stanford. 2010. Status of the exotic Orinoco sailfin catfish (Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus) in Florida. Florida Scientist 73(2):122-137.
34015 News Gibbons, B. 2020. Snails, Tilapia, Scooters Pulled From Drained San Antonio River. The Rivard Report. San Antonio, TX. https://therivardreport.com/snails-tilapia-scooters-pulled-from-drained-san-antonio-river/?fbclid=IwAR3DDWGnLSt1rrDstP8B1UfFUFU4L5yld1mI1QRA5MZDmXLa_lpqCpqCgP0. Created on 01/08/2020. Accessed on 01/10/2020.
30782 Journal Article Gibbs, M., P. Watson, K. Johnson-Sapp, and C. Lind. 2017. Reproduction revisited – a decade of changes in the reproductive strategies of an invasive catfish, Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus (Weber, 1991), in Volusia Blue Spring, Florida. Aquatic Invasions 12(2):225-239. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2017.12.2.10.
31766 Journal Article Gibbs, M., T. Frutal, M. Mallinger, D. Martin, and M. Ross. 2010. Disturbance of the Florida Manatee by an Invasive Catfish. Southeastern Naturalist 9(4):635-648. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41262957.pdf.
26549 Journal Article Gibbs, M.A., J.H. Shields, D.W. Lock, K.M. Talmadge, and T.M. Farrell. 2008. Reproduction in an invasive exotic catfish Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus in Volusia Blue Spring, Florida, U.S.A. Journal of Fish Biology 73(7):1562-1572. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.02031.x/abstract.
29260 Journal Article Godwin, J.C., D.A. Steen, D. Werneke, and J.W. Armbruster. 2016. Two significant records of exotic tropical freshwater fishes in southern Alabama. Southeastern Naturalist 15(4):N57-N60.
40842 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
14143 Journal Article Hoover, J.J., K.J. Killgore, and A.F. Cofrancesco. 2004. Suckermouth catfishes: Threats to aquatic ecosystems of the United States? Aquatic Nuisance Species Research Program 4(1):1-9.
24406 Database Idelberger, C. 2011. dataset for paper "Distribution and abundance of introduced fishes in Florida's Charlotte Harbor estuary".
24381 Journal Article Idelberger, C.F., C.J. Stafford, and S.E. Erickson. 2011. Distribution and abundance of introduced fishes in Florida’s Charlotte Harbor estuary. Gulf and Caribbean Research 23:13-22.
24092 Database Illinois Natural History Survey. 2011. Illinois Natural History Survey Collection Databases. Illinois Natural History Survey. https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/.
25944 Database iNaturalist. 2024. http://www.inaturalist.org/. Accessed on 08/13/2024.
25745 Journal Article Kline, J.L., W.F. Loftus, K. Kotun, J.C. Trexler, J.S. Rehage, J.J. Lorenz, and M. Robinson. 2014. Recent fish introductions into Everglades National Park: an unforeseen consequence of water-management? Wetlands 34(Suppl. 1):S175-S187. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-012-0362-0.
19144 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
31771 Report Lewis, R.R., III. 2012. Management and restoration of the fish populations of Silver Springs and the middle and lower Ocklawaha River, Florida, USA. Putnam County  Environmental Council, Interlachen, FL.
26408 Database Loftus, A. 2011. Multi State Aquatic Resources Information System (MARIS) Master Database records via Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON).
20840 Database Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. 2011. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History - Ichthyology Collection. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. http://www.fishnet2.net/.
509 Journal Article Ludlow, M.E., and S.J. Walsh. 1991. Occurence of a South American armored catfish in the Hillsborough River, FL. Florida Scientist 54(1):48-50.
20877 Database Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. 2011. Mississippi Museum of Natural Science - Ichthyology Collection. Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. http://www.fishnet2.net/.
14969 Book Mundy, B.C. 2005. Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Zoology 6. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, HI.
15982 Report Neal, J.W., R.J. Noble, C.G. Lilystrom, T.N. Churchill, A.R. Alicea, F.M. Holliman, and D.S. Waters. 1999. Freshwater sportfish community investigations and management. Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Project F-41-2 Final Report.
16099 Book Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 6th edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.
14814 Book Chapter Nico, L.G. 2005. Changes in the fish fauna of the Kissimmee River Basin, peninsular Florida: nonnative additions. Pages 523-556 in Rinne, J.N., R.M. Hughes, and B. Calamusso, eds. Historical changes in large river fish assemblages of the Americas. American Fisheries Society Symposium 45. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, MD.
19585 Journal Article Nico, L.G. 2010. Nocturnal and diurnal activity of armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) associated with wintering Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Neotropical Ichthyology 8(4):893-898. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/v8n4/aop1610.pdf.
13562 Journal Article Nico, L.G., and R.T. Martin. 2001. The South American suckermouth armored catfish, Pterygoplichthys anisitsi (Pisces: Loricariidae), in Texas, with comments on foreign fish introductions in the American Southwest. The Southwestern Naturalist 46(1):98-104. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3672381.
24838 Journal Article Nico, L.G., P.L. Butt, G.R. Johnston, H.L. Jelks, M. Kail, and S.J. Walsh. 2012. Discovery of South American suckermouth armored catfishes (Loricariidae, Pterygoplichthys spp.) in the Santa Fe River drainage, Suwannee River basin, USA. BioInvasions Records 1(3):179-200. http://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2012/3/BIR_2012_3_Nico_etal.pdf.
18748 Journal Article Nico, L.G., W.F. Loftus, and J.P. Reid. 2009. Interactions between non-native armored suckermouth catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) and native Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in artesian springs. Aquatic Invasions 4(3):511-519. http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2009/AI_2009_4_3_Nico_etal.pdf.
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.
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.
37732 News Patton, M.C. 2022. Hundreds of invasive aquarium fish removed from San Marcos River. KSAT 12. San Antonio, TX. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/01/18/hundreds-of-invasive-aquarium-fish-removed-from-san-marcos-river/. Created on 01/18/2022. Accessed on 01/19/2022.
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.
16115 Report Phelps, G.G., S.J. Walsh, G.M Gerwig, and W.B. Tate. 2004. Characterization of the hydrology, water chemistry and aquatic communities of selected springs in the St. Johns River Water Management District, Florida, 2004. US Geological Survey. http://cars.er.usgs.gov/OFR_2006-1107/ofr_2006-1107.html.
30865 News Phillips, R. 2017. Boise River survey finds a surprising species: a non-native freshwater shrimp. Department of Fish and Game. https://idfg.idaho.gov/press/boise-river-survey-finds-surprising-species-non-native-freshwater-shrimp. Created on 11/29/2017. Accessed on 12/27/2017.
18981 Journal Article Poulakis, G.R., R.E. Matheson, Jr., M.E. Mitchell, D.A. Blewett, and C.F. Idelberger. 2004. Fishes of the Charlotte Harbor Estuarine System, Florida. Gulf of Mexico Science 22(2):117-150.
16077 Journal Article Robbins, K.M., K.R. Campbell, and D.J. Durbin. 2007. The prescence of exotic fish species in Horse Creek, Desoto and Hardee Counties, Florida. Florida Scientist 70(Supplement 1):22. http://snhs-jmontague.barry.edu/FAS/FAS%202007/download%20abstracts%203-8-2007.pdf.
26571 Report Robbins, K.M.N, and D.J. Durbin. 2007. Horse Creek Stewardship Program 2005 annual report. Biological Research Associates, Riverview, FL. http://www.chnep.wateratlas.usf.edu/upload/documents/HCSPAnnRpt2005.pdf.
25113 Database Schofield, P. 2012. Gourami Blitz - 8 November 2012.
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.
28155 Database Schofield, P.J. 2015. Fish slam collection data from 2015 in south Florida. US Geolgoical Survey, Gainesville, FL.
32414 Database Schofield, P.J. 2016. Fish slam data Spring 2016 in south Florida. U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 01/30/2019.
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.
29915 Database Schofield, P.J. 2017. Fishes of Indian River Lagoon, March-April 2017 (unpublished data). U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 05/17/2017.
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.
33259 Database Schofield, P.J. 2019. Fish Slam Data - Vero, Florida, Spring March 26-27, 2019. U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 06/11/2019.
33937 Database Schofield, P.J. 2019. Fish slam data in south Florida, November 2019. Created on 11/22/2019.
33260 Database Schofield, P.J. 2019. Fish Slam Data - Orlando, Florida, Summer June 5-6, 2019. U.S. Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 06/11/2019.
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.
26947 Web Page Segale, H. 2014. Non-native fish found at Lake Tahoe. http://terc.ucdavis.edu/news/publications/news-publications/plecostomus2014.pdf. Created on 07/09/2014. Accessed on 08/04/2014.
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.
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.
21043 Database Texas A&M University. 2011. Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection - Ichthyology Collection Database. Texas A&M University. http://www.fishnet2.net/.
25997 Database Texas A&M University. 2013. Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection vertebrate collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14379. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14379. Created on 08/06/2012. Accessed on 04/11/2013.
25998 Database Texas Natural Science Center. 2013. Texas Natural History Collections ichthyology collection. Accessed through GBIF data portal, http://www.gbif.org/dataset/6080b6cc-1c24-41ff-ad7f-0ebe7b56f311. Unversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. http://www.gbif.org/dataset/6080b6cc-1c24-41ff-ad7f-0ebe7b56f311. Created on 02/02/2011. Accessed on 04/11/2013.
30788 Web Page Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. 2018. Lake Survey Reports. https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/lake_survey/. Accessed on 11/30/2018.
42497 Journal Article Tristano, E.P. and M.A. Gibbs. 2023. Nutrient sequestration by a highly invasive armored catfish in a Florida spring ecosystem. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106:519-526. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-022-01386-7.
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).
43368 Database U.S. Geological Survey. 2024. Aggregated collection data from multi-agency non-native fish survey, Orlando metro area, July 2024. U.S Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. Created on 07/19/2024. Accessed on 08/19/2024.
20820 Journal Article Work, K., M. Gibbs, B. Peters, and L. French. 2010. Fish assemblage variability in a Florida spring. Southeastern Naturalist 9(4):649-672.


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