Ecological Risk Screening Summary - Malapterurus leonensis (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.

Malapterurus leonensis is an electric catfish native to the coastal drainages of Sierra Leone. The history of invasiveness for M. leonensis is uncertain. There were no records of introduction found. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (2018) has listed the electric catfish M. leonensis as a prohibited species. The climate match was low and all states had low individual climate scores. The lack of georeferenced observations to use as source locations for the climate match lowers the confidence in the results. The certainty of assessment is low. The overall risk assessment is uncertain.