Channa argus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 4 Sep 2002
name: label: Collector
content: Maryland Department of Natural Resources
notes: label: Notes
content: Juveniles spawned by two adult snakeheads introduced into a pond in Crofton, Maryland. A man had purchased the adults with the intention of turning them into soup (supposedly as a remedy) for his ailing sister. His sister recovered before he had a chance to cook the snakeheads, so he released them without realizing they posed a threat to native fishes. One of the adults was later caught by a fisherman and caused a media sensation during the summer of 2002. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources rotenoned the pond and collected the other adult and juveniles of several different age classes. A ban on the importation of these fishes into the US was enacted as a result of this case.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Aug 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 56
place: label: Place
content: Crofton, Maryland, private pond, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Fishes
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Channa argus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Fishes Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 626996
label: USNM Number
content: 371929
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Neopterygii, Acanthopterygii, Perciformes, Channoidei, Channidae