DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13852361
title: Table 1 in America's Most Wanted Fishes: cataloging risk assessments to prioritize invasive species for management action

description: Table 1. List of fish species with high-risk statuses in the conterminous U.S., in the Great Lakes region, and in the state of Florida. Horizontal lines separate families and species for clarity.
Family NameFish species nameConterminous U.S.Great LakesFloridaAtherinidaeAtherina boyeri (Risso, 1810)XXAtherinopsidaeMenidia beryllina (Cope, 1867)XOdontesthes bonariensis (Valenciennes, 1835)XCallichthyidaeHoplosternum littorale (Hancock, 1828)XCentrarchidaeLepomis microlophus (Günther, 1859)XXMicropterus dolomieu (Lacepède, 1802)XMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)XCentropomidaeLates niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)XChannidaeChanna argus (Cantor, 1842)XXChanna marulius (Hamilton, 1822)XCharacidaePygocentrus nattereri (Kner, 1858)XCichlidaeAmatitlania nigrofasciata (Günther, 1867)XXAstronotus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)XCichla kelberi (Kullander & Ferreira, 2006)XCichla ocellaris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)XXCichlasoma uropthalma (Günther, 1862)XXCoptodon rendalli (Boulenger, 1897)XCoptodon zilli (Gervais, 1848)XXHemichromis letourneuxi (Sauvage, 1880)XHerichthys cyanoguttatus (Baird & Girard, 1854)XOreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864)XXOreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852)XXOreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXParachromis managuensis (Günther, 1862)XXPelmatotilapia mariae (Boulenger, 1899)XSarotherodon melanotheron (Rüppell, 1852)XSerranochromis robustus (Günther, 1864)XClariidaeClarias batrachus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXClarias fuscus (Lacepède, 1803)XClarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822)XClupeidaeAlosa aestivalis (Mitchell, 1814)XAlosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811)XXCobitidaeMisgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor, 1842)XXCyprinidaeAbramis brama (Linnaeus, 1758)XAlburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758)XBarbus barbus (Linnaeus, 1758)XCarassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)XCarassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782)XCtenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844)XXXCulter alburnus (Basilewsky, 1855)XCyprinella lutrensis (Baird & Girard, 1853)XCyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758)XXXGobio gobio (Linnaeus, 1758)XHypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes, 1844)XHypophthalmichthys nobilis (Richardson, 1845)XXLeuciscus idus (Linnaeus, 1758)XMylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1846)XOpsariichthys uncirostris (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)XPimephales promelas (Rafinsque, 1820)XPhoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758)XProtochondrostoma genei (Bonaparte, 1839)XPseudorasbora parva (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)XRhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782)XRutilus aula (Bonparte,1841)XRutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXScardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXTinca tinca (Linnaeus, 1758)XXEsocidaeEsox lucius (Linnaeus, 1758)XEsox masquinongy (Mitchill, 1824)XGasterosteidaeGasterosteus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXGobiidaeNeogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814)XXPonticola platyrostris (Pallas, 1814)XProterorhinus semilunaris (Heckel, 1837)XHeteropneustidaeHeteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1794)XIctaluridaeIctalurus furcatus (Valenciennes, 1840)XPylodictis olivaris (Rafinesque, 1818)XLoricariidaeHypostomus plecostomus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXPterygoplichthys anisitsi (Eigenmann & Kennedy, 1903)XPterygoplichthys disjunctivus (Weber, 1991)XXPterygoplichthys multiradiatus (Hancock, 1828)XXPterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855)XMoronidaeMorone americana (Gmelin, 1789)XXNotopteridaeChitala ornata (Gray, 1831)XOdontobutidaePerccottus glenii (Dybowski, 1877)XOsmeridaeHypomesus nipponensis (McAllister, 1963)XOsmerus eperlanus (Linnaeus, 1758)XXOsmerus mordax (Mitchill, 1814)XOsphronemidaeTrichogaster lalius (Hamilton, 1822)XTrichopodus trichopterus (Pallas, 1770)XPercidaeGymnocephalus cernua (Linnaeus, 1758)XXPerca flavescens (Mitchill, 1814)XPerca fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)XXSander lucioperca (Linnaeus, 1758)XSander vitreus (Mitchill, 1818)XPetromyzontidaePetromyzon marinus (Linnaeus, 1758)XPoeciliidaeBelonesox belizanus (Kner, 1860)XGambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853)XXGambusia holbrooki (Girard, 1859)XPoecilia latipinna (Lesueur, 1821)XPoecilia reticulata (Peters, 1859)XXPoecilia sphenops (Valciennes, 1846)XXXiphophorus helleri (Heckel, 1848)XXiphophorus variatus (Meek, 1904)XPolypteridaePolypterus delhezi (Boulenger, 1899)XPomacentridaeNeopomacentrus cyanomos (Bleeker, 1856)XPotamotrygonidaePotamotrygon falkneri (Castex & Maciel, 1963)XPotamotrygon motoro (Müller & Henle, 1841)XPotamotrygon schuhmacheri (Castex, 1964)XSalmonidaeCoregonus albula (Linnaeus, 1758)XCoregonus lavaretus (Linnaeus, 1758)XCoregonus maraena (Bloch, 1779)XCoregonus peled (Gmelin, 1789)XHucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758)XOncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792)XOncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)XOncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum, 1792)XSalmo trutta (Linnaeus, 1758)XScorpaenidaePterois miles (Bennett, 1828)XPterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758)XSiluridaeSilurus glanis (Linnaeus, 1758)X
description: Published as part of Dean, E. M., Jordon, Audrey, Agnew, Aimee C., Hernandez, Nicole D., Morningstar, Cayla R., Neilson, Matthew, Piccolomini, Sara E., Reichert, Brian, Wray, Amy K. & Daniel, Wesley M., 2024, America's Most Wanted Fishes: cataloging risk assessments to prioritize invasive species for management action, pp. 9-10 in Management of Biological Invasions 15 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.3391/mbi.2024.15.1.01, http://zenodo.org/record/11976321