Adding to a long list of invasive species that already includes clawed frogs, house-eating meningitis snails, and giant poisonous toads, Tampa Bay is now home to an air-breathing Asian fish. For the first time on record, researchers have located a population of non-native aggressive, air-breathing fish known as the goldline snakehead (Channa aurolineata) in a Manatee County pond, according to a recent study published in the journal Aquatic Invasions, and shared today by the Florida Museum of Natural History. The FMNH says officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), removed about 400 of the goldline snakeheads from the pond, as well as seven other non-native species, including walking catfish and Asian swamp eel.
Adding to a long list of invasive species that already includes clawed frogs, house-eating meningitis snails, and giant poisonous toads, Tampa Bay is now home to an air-breathing Asian fish. For the first time on record, researchers have located a population of non-native aggressive, air-breathing fish known as the goldline snakehead (Channa aurolineata) in a Manatee County pond, according to a recent study published in the journal Aquatic Invasions, and shared today by the Florida Museum of Natural History. The FMNH says officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), removed about 400 of the goldline snakeheads from the pond, as well as seven other non-native species, including walking catfish and Asian swamp eel.