Ecological Risk Screening Summary - Hypostomus angipinnatus (a catfish, no common name) - Uncertain Risk

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.

Hypostomus angipinnatus is a catfish native to Brazil. The history of invasiveness is uncertain. No records of introductions were found so there in no information on impacts of introduction. The climate match for the contiguous United States was medium. The match was low for most of the contiguous United States, except for peninsular Florida and coastal Texas. Florida had a high individual climate score. The lack of georeferenced observations of the species to use as source points in the climate match lowers the confidence in the results. The certainty of assessment is low. The overall risk assessment category is uncertain.