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Nonnative Climbing Gouramis

Common Name Scientific Name First Observed Introduction Status

Climbing Perch

Anabas testudineus

Late 1960s

Aquarium release and/or aquaculture escape

Formerly reproducing

Siamese Fightingfish

Betta splendens

1969

Aquarium release and/or aquaculture escape

Formerly reproducing

Twospot Ctenopoma

Ctenopoma nigropannosum

Early 1970s

Aquarium release and/or aquaculture escape

Formerly reproducing

Croaking Gourami

Trichopsis vittata

1978

Aquarium release and/or aquaculture escape

Potentially established