Informed management and conservation efforts are vital to sustainable recreational fishing
and biodiversity conservation. Because the taxonomic rank of species is important in …

Data on marine and brackish-water fishes recorded in the area of the Parque Nacional
Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano in the southwest Gulf of Mexico were extracted from online …

Risk screening is a rapid, cost-effective means of gaining information on risk for large
numbers of nonnative species. Professor Gordon H. Copp used the Australian Weed Risk …

Biological invasions in fresh waters cause biodiversity loss and impairment of ecosystem
functioning. Many freshwater invasive species are fish, including the largemouth bass …

The genus Menticirrhus is widely distributed in the Neotropical region, where its species are
common and abundant in shallow coastal waters and estuaries. The diversity …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a novel molecular tool that is used to detect
and catalog biodiversity from remnant DNA in the environment, including at-risk and elusive …

Abstract Objective Introductions of Florida Bass Micropterus floridanus (FB) to Texas
resulted in prevalent hybridization with Largemouth Bass M. salmoides (LB) and the creation …

Ovipleistophora diplostomuri (Microsporidia) is an obligate parasite of fish and trematodes in
the US. In April 2019, an individual crayfish, Procambarus bivittatus (Escambia River …

The influence of environment and phylogeny on morphological characteristics of organisms
is well documented. However, little is known about how these factors influence scale shape …

MATERIALS AND METHODS North America is understood here as the marine and
terrestrial area within the political boundaries of its three largest countries, Canada, Mexico …