List of invasive species in North America

This is a list of invasive species in North America. A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location, directly threatening human industry, such as agriculture, or the local biodiversity.

The term invasive species refers to a subset of those species defined as introduced species. If a species has been introduced, but remains local, and is not problematic for human industry or the local biodiversity, then it is not considered invasive, and does not belong on this list.

Plants

Invertebrates

Insects

Arachnids

Worms

Aquatic arthropods

Mollusks

Freshwater snails

Freshwater clams
  • Corbicula fluminea (Asian clam)
  • Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mussel)
  • Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (quagga mussel)

Sea snails
  • Crepidula fornicata (common slipper shell)
  • Littorina littorea (common periwinkle)
  • Rapana venosa (veined rapa whelk)

Land slugs

Land snails

Fish
  • Acanthogobius flavimanus (yellowfin goby)
  • Alosa pseudoharengus (alewife)
  • Ameiurus nebulosus (brown bullhead)
  • Astronotus ocellatus (oscar)
  • Aulonocara (peacock cichlid)
  • Belonesox belizanus (pike topminnow)
  • Channa argus (northern snakehead)
  • Channa marulius (bullseye snakehead)
  • Chitala ornata (clown featherback)
  • Cichlasoma bimaculatum (black acara)
  • Clarias batrachus (walking catfish)
  • Coptodon zillii (redbelly tilapia)
  • Ctenopharyngodon idella (grass carp)
  • Cyprinella lutrensis (red shiner)
  • Cyprinus carpio (common carp)
  • Gambusia holbrooki (eastern mosquitofish)
  • Gymnocephalus cernuus (Eurasian ruffe)
  • Hemichromis letourneuxi (African jewelfish)
  • Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (silver carp)
  • Hypophthalmichthys nobilis (bighead carp)
  • Ictalurus furcatus (blue catfish)
  • Ictalurus punctatus (channel catfish)
  • Lepomis cyanellus (green sunfish)
  • Mayaheros urophthalmus (Mayan cichlid)
  • Micropterus salmoides (largemouth bass)
  • Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Oriental weatherloach)
  • Monopterus albus (Asian swamp eel)
  • Morone americana (white perch)
  • Mylopharyngodon piceus (black carp)
  • Neogobius melanostomus (round goby)
  • Oreochromis aureus (blue tilapia)
  • Pelmatolapia mariae (spotted tilapia)
  • Petromyzon marinus (sea lamprey)
  • Pterois miles (common lionfish)[5]
  • Pterois volitans (red lionfish)
  • Scardinius erythropthalmus (common rudd)
  • Xiphophorus hellerii (green swordtail)

Reptiles and amphibians
  • Anolis sagrei (brown anole)
  • Anolis wattsi (Watts' anole)
  • Apalone spinifera (spiny softshell turtle)
  • Caiman crocodilus (spectacled caiman)
  • Ctenosaura similis (black spiny-tailed iguana)
  • Eleutherodactylus coqui (common coquí)
  • Eleutherodactylus planirostris (greenhouse frog)
  • Hemidactylus frenatus (common house gecko)
  • Hemidactylus turcicus (Mediterranean house gecko)
  • Iguana iguana (green iguana)
  • Nerodia fasciata (southern watersnake)[2]
  • Nerodia sipedon (northern watersnake)[2]
  • Osteopilus septentrionalis (Cuban tree frog)
  • Podarcis sicula (Italian wall lizard) – Considered invasive in California, but not in its most famous introduction site of the Cincinnati area.
  • Python bivittatus (Burmese python)
  • Rana catesbeiana (bullfrog)
  • Rhinella marina (cane toad)
  • Salvator merianae (Argentine black and white tegu)
  • Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider)
  • Trioceros jacksonii (Jackson's chameleon)
  • Varanus niloticus (Nile monitor)
  • Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog)

Mammals

Birds
  • Cairina moschata (Muscovy duck)
  • Columba livia (rock pigeon)
  • Cygnus olor (mute swan)
  • Haemorhous mexicanus (house finch)
  • Molothrus bonariensis (shiny cowbird)
  • Myiopsitta monachus (monk parakeet, Quaker parrot)
  • Passer domesticus (house sparrow)
  • Pycnonotus jocosus (red-whiskered bulbul)
  • Streptopelia decaocto (Eurasian collared dove)
  • Sturnus vulgaris (European starling)

Pathogens

Others

See also

References
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