Species that are considered uncertain risk need a more in-depth assessment beyond the Risk Summary to better define the species’ risk to U.S. environments.
Golden Tropheops (Tropheops tropheops) is a cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa. T. tropheops is present in the aquarium trade. Detailed information on the species’ duration or volume in trade was not found. The history of invasiveness is uncertain. There are records of introductions. One introduction failed to establish a population, another is an artificially sustained population, and the status of the third introduction is unknown. The climate match with the contiguous United States was low. The certainty of the assessment is low due to a lack of information. The overall risk assessment is uncertain.
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