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Range Expansion and Environmental Impress of the Introduced Walking Catfish in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Walter R. Courtenay Jr  and
Woodard W. Miley II
Walter R. Courtenay Jr
Affiliation:
Professor of Zoology, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33432, U.S.A.
Woodard W. Miley II
Affiliation:
Biologist, Florida Department of Natural Resources, 202 Blount Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32304, U.S.A.
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The Walking Catfish (Clarias batrachus), accidentally introduced into southeastern Florida in the mid-1960s, is currently distributed over more than 8,750 square km in ten counties of that State. The range of this exotic can reasonably be expected to extend over still further counties within the next few years. The present threat to fish farming interests, and the potential threat to native fishes, are thought to be serious.

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 1975 , pp. 145 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1975

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