Ecological Risk Screening Summary - Yellow-tail Barracuda (Acestrorhynchus falcirostris) - 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.

Yellow-tail Barracuda (Acestrorhynchus falcirostris) is a freshwater fish species native to South America. A. falcirostris is found in public aquariums and in the aquarium trade in the United States. Climate match with the contiguous United States is low. No introductions of this species have been reported. More information is needed to understand the impacts from introductions of this species; absence of this information makes the certainty of this assessment low. Overall risk posed by this species is uncertain.