THE CICHLID FAMILY Cichlidae
OSCAR Astronotus ocellaris (Agassiz)
DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE: Introduced - Non-reproducing. One
confirmed hook-and-line capture (MCZ ), two recent sight
record from Amherst and the Charles River, Boston (D.G. Smith pers.
com., 1994), and other unconfirmed reports from Massachusetts are
known.
MIDAS CICHLID Cichlasoma cf. citrinellum
DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE: Introduced - Non-
reproducing. One individual collected (and a second reported) by
MDFW fisheries biologists at Dodgeville Pond, Attleboro.
from: An Annotated Working List of the Inland Fishes of
Massachusetts. © 1996. K.E. Hartel (hartel@mcz.harvard.edu),
D.B. Halliwell (arcsys@mint.net) and A.E. Launer (aelauner@leland.stanford.edu).