
Monopterus albus (Zuiew, 1793) (ITIS)
Asian swamp eel (ASE), rice eel
Asia (Prok 2000)
Early 1900s (HI); Mid-1990s (Continental U.S.) (NAS Database; Prok 2000)
Imported as a food source and for the aquarium trade (Prok 2000)
Competes with native species (Prok 2000)
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Council or Task Force
Partnership
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Galveston Bay Estuary Program; Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC).
Texas State University System. Texas Invasive Species Institute.
Federal Government
DOI. Fish and Wildlife Service.
See also: Ecological Risk Screening Summaries for more species summaries
State and Local Government
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Division of Fish and Wildlife.
Academic
Citations
Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Monopterus albus. [Accessed Sep 10, 2014].
Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database. Fact Sheet - Asian Swamp Eel. USGS, Gainesville, FL. [Accessed Sep 16, 2014].
Prok, J. 2000. Asian swamp eel invasion increases in Southeast (PDF | 381 KB) Aquatic Nuisance Species Digest 4(1):5.