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NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species |
Common Name: flier
Identification: Hubbs et al. (1991); Page and Burr (1991); Etnier and Starnes (1993); Jenkins and Burkhead (1994).
Size: 19 cm.
Native Range: Coastal Plain from Potomac drainage, Maryland (introduced), to central
Florida and west to Trinity River, Texas; north in former Mississippi
Embayment to southern Illinois and southern Indiana; above Fall Line in
southern Indiana, southern Illinois; rarely elsewhere.
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Nonindigenous Occurrences: Collected from a farm pond in Maryland in St. Marys County in the lower Potomac drainage prior to 1981 (Lee et al. 1981; Jenkins and Burkhead 1994).
Means of Introduction: Probably stocked, either intentionally or as stock contamination. Lee et al. (1981) questioned the flier's native status in Maryland. Jenkins and Burkhead (1994) stated that if it is native to the Potomac River in Maryland, it should have been found in the Virginia portion of that river as well (it was not).
Status: Reported from Maryland.
Impact of Introduction: Unknown.
Remarks: None.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pam Fuller
Revision Date: 9/8/1999 Citation for this information:
Pam Fuller. 2009. Centrarchus macropterus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=375> Revision Date: 9/8/1999
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