Introduced Species in Florida

Another list: Introduced fish in Florida:
Banded Cichlid
Bullseye Snakehead
Common Carp
Goldfish
Grass Carp
Jack Dempsey
Jaguar Guapote
Mayan Cichlid
Midas Cichlid
Mozambique Tilapia
Peacock Bass
Rio Grande Cichlid
Spotted Tilapia
Walking Catfish
Common Lionfish
Red Lionfish
Black Acara
African Spotted Tilapia
Bighead Carp
Jewel Cichlid
Asian Swamp Eel
Electric Eel
Brown Hopolo
Pike Killifish
Sailfin Pleco
Blue Tilapia
birdsandbats said:
This list is probably missing some.
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And one that list was missing: the Gambian Pouched Rat.
 
Just found out that there is a small introduced population of Pallas' Mastiff Bats in Florida.
 
Hix said:
The other lists are interesting too, especially the Bird list - for a country that exterminated their only native parrot, Florida have made up for it with 72 species being found there at one time or another, but only two species are established (Budgerigar and Monk Parrot) while another 44 are known to be present in the wild in Florida, including Hyacinth Macaws. They also have a Turaco, three Hornbills and several passerines and waterfowl species.
In the mammal list three species of monkey are established, and capybara are present but not yet established.
It's not mentioned in the lists on that site but African Giant Snails have been introduced and are destroying houses.

:p

Hix
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Actually the budgerigars have disappeared over the last 3 or 4 decades, but Nanday Parrots are now considered to be fully established.
 
There are around 200 budgerigars left in the free-breeding population. House sparrows are believed to have out competed the species for nest boxes (the budgerigar was largely dependent on human nest sites to breed in Florida.)
 
Chlidonias said:
Regarding monkeys in Florida, I thought I'd recently started a thread (or posted in an existing thread) about the Rhesus Macaques there, but I can't find it.

So here's an article about them from July this year: Wild monkeys roaming Florida and breeding like, well, monkeys

The overall population is in the hundreds now, with around 200 at Silver Springs and others elsewhere. Unsurprisingly, animal rights nuts are impeding study of the monkeys (at the end of the article above).

This article from 2012 notes that over 700 (!) macaques had been live-captured by one trapper from the area of Silver Springs over the previous decade: Capture of monkeys in Silver Springs sparks debate
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Rhesus monkeys increasing :

Population of Florida monkeys -- that carry herpes -- is growing, study says
 
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