florida's invasive herps list.....

[faze]

i tripped across this a lil bit earlier while browsing some sites... its a listing of invasive herps into the florida ecosystem how long each species has been noted to be in florida how long they have been breeding in which countys(if breeding has happened at all) and a bunch of other cool lil facts about how these species far in florida and what threat they pose to the natural ecosystem
http://wld.fwc.state.fl.us/critters/...asp?taxclass=R

and heres the address for all the other types of exotics that have made there way into the florida ecosystem
http://wld.fwc.state.fl.us/critters/exotics/exotics.asp

[Gecko-Guy]

I didn't know that there were populations of nile monitors and veiled chams down there. I had heard about the burmese pythons before. Great info.

[faze]

ya i see a nile running around once every few months as for the veileds they must be on the other coast because i havent seen any aound my area

[AnAcOnDaMaN]

Yes faze is right i have seen veiled chams around before.

[froggystyle34]

i have seen the iggies in miami and the burms in the glades, i live on the panhandle and we have caught burms, retics, and Boa here whiel filed herping.

[faze]

its actually kinda scary to know that all these animals adapt to floridas habitat almost effortlessly
whats also scary is the ammount of birds that have adjusted over 196 species of birds including macaws cockatoos amazon parrots toucans.... the list just goes on and on

[telefrag]

Krieger publishing is putting out or, maybe already has, a book on non native herps in florida.

[faze]

thanks telefrag! i'll have to look into that

[JuliusSqueezer]

bah cockatoos, macaws, amazons and toucans are no big deal. What amazes me are the Snowbirds that survive down there!

[faze]

lmmfao!!! brett they forgot that species in there "northernous humanus"

[BWSmith]

Luckily with all the high winds in Florida lately, most of the invasive herps are lodged in trees at 90 mph.