List of invasive species in Italy
Main article: List of invasive species
This is a list of some invasive species in Italy.
Animals
Arthropods
Crustaceans
Louisiana crawfish (Procambarus clarkii)
- Dikerogammarus villosus (Killer shrimp) [1]
- Eriocheir sinensis (Chinese mitten crab)
- Orconectes limosus (Eastern crayfish)
- Pacifastacus leniusculus (Signal crayfish)
- Procambarus clarkii (Louisiana crawfish)
- Procambarus fallax f. virginalis (Marmorkrebs)
Insects
Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis)
- Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito)
- Cacyreus marshalli (Geranium bronze)
- Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Chestnut gall wasp)
- Drosophila suzukii (Spotted-wing drosophila)[2]
- Harmonia axyridis (Asian lady beetle)
- Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado beetle)
- Linepithema humile (Argentine ant)
Chordates
Amphibians
- Lithobates catesbeianus (American Bullfrog)
- Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog)
Birds
A male of Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) in India
- Alopochen aegyptiacus (Egyptian goose)
- Anser indicus (Bar-headed goose)
- Myiopsitta monachus (Monk parakeet) [3]
- Psittacula krameri (Rose-ringed parakeet)[4]
Fish
- Ameiurus melas (Black bullhead)
- Gambusia affinis (Eestern mosquitofish)
- Lepomis gibbosus (Pumpkinseed sunfish)
- Pseudorasbora parva (Stone moroko)
- Micropterus salmoides (Largemouth Bass)
- Salvelinus fontinalis (Brook trout)
Mammals
A coypu (Myocastor coypus)
- Eutamias sibiricus (Siberian chipmunk)
- Callosciurus finlaysonii (Finlayson's squirrel)
- Mustela vison (American mink)
- Myocastor coypus (Coypu, nutria)
- Nyctereutes procyonoides (Raccoon dog)
- Ondatra zibethicus (Muskrat)
- Rattus norvegicus (Brown rat)
- Rattus rattus (Black rat)
- Sciurus carolinensis (Grey squirrel)
- Procyon lotor (Common raccoon)[5]
Reptiles
- Trachemys scripta elegans (Red-eared slider)
Molluscs
Marine
A shell of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha
- Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster)
- Crepidula fornicata (Common slipper shell)
- Rapana Venosa (Veined rapa whelk)
Freshwater
- Corbicula fluminea (Freshwater bivalve mollusk)
- Dreissena polymorpha (Zebra mussel)
- Ferrissia fragilis (Freshwater limpet)
- Melanoides tuberculata (Red-rimmed melania)
- Potamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail)
- Sinanodonta woodiana (Chinese pond mussel)
Platyhelminthes
- Bipalium kewense (hammerhead flatworm)[6][7]
Plants
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Ailanthus altissima (Tree of heaven)
- Amorpha fruticosa (Desert false indigo)
- Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Amrosia artemisifolia)
- Carpobrotus edulis (Hottentot fig)
- Caulerpa racemosa (Grape caulerpa)
- Caulerpa taxifolia, Mediterranean clone
- Clematis vitalba (Old man's beard)
- Crassula helmsii (Australian swamp stonecrop)
- Elodea canadensis (Canadian pondweed)
- Fallopia japonica (Japanese knotweed)
- Gleditsia triacanthos (Honey locust)
- Heracleum mantegazzianum (Giant hogweed)
- Hydrocotyle ranunculoides (Floating pennywort)
- Impatiens glandulifera (Himalayan balsam)
- Myriophyllum aquaticum (Parrot feather)
- Robinia pseudoacacia (Black locust)
- Eichhornia crassipes (Water hyacinth)
Pathogens
- Ophiostoma ulmi (Dutch elm disease)
References
- ↑ Casellato, Sandra; La Piana, Giovanni; Latella, Leonardo; Ruffo, Sandro (2006). "Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894) (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) for the first time in Italy". Italian Journal of Zoology 73 (1): 97–104. doi:10.1080/11250000500502293.
- ↑ Cini, Alessandro; Claudio, Ioriatti; Gianfranco, Anfora (2012). "A review of the invasion of Drosophila suzukii in Europe and a draft research agenda for integrated pest management" (PDF). Bulletin of Insectology 65 (1): 149–160.
- ↑ Emiliano, Mori; Mirko, Di Febbraro; Massimiliano, Foresta; Paolo, Melis; Enrico, Romanazzi; Andrea, Notari; Francesca, Boggiano (2013). "Assessment of the current distribution of free-living parrots and parakeets (Aves: Psittaciformes) in Italy: a synthesis of published data and new records". Italian Journal of Zoology 80 (2): 158–167. doi:10.1080/11250003.2012.738713.
- ↑ Menchetti, Mattia; Mori, Emiliano; Angelici, Francesco Maria (2016). Effects of the recent world invasion by ring-necked parakeets Psittacula krameri. Springer International Publishin. pp. 253–266. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22246-2_12. ISBN 978-3-319-22246-2.
- ↑ Mori, Emiliano; Mazza, Giuseppe; Menchetti, Mattia; Panzeri, Mattia; Gager, Yann; Bertolino, Sandro; Di Febbraro, Mirko (2015). "The masked invader strikes again: the conquest of Italy by the Northern raccoon". Hystrix 26 (1): 47–51. doi:10.4404/hystrix-26.1-11035.
- ↑ Álvarez-Presas, M.; Mateos, E.; Tudó, À.; Jones, H.; Riutort, M. (2014). "Diversity of introduced terrestrial flatworms in the Iberian Peninsula: A cautionary tale". PeerJ 2: e430. doi:10.7717/peerj.430. PMC 4060057. PMID 24949245.
- ↑ Mazza, Giuseppe; Menchetti, Mattia; Sluys, Ronald; Solà, Eduard; Riutort, Marta; Tricarico, Elena; Justine, Jean-Lou; Cavigioli, Luca; Mori, Emiliano (2016). "First report of the land planarian Diversibipalium multilineatum (Makino & Shirasawa, 1983) (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola) in Europe". Zootaxa 4067 (5): 577. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.4. ISSN 1175-5334.
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