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USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service Invasive Species Identified in the Caribbean Area (Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands)

Animals (draft) Common name Technical name Spanish English Amphibian Bird Fish Insect Mammal Reptile Other: Cochinilla rosada Pink hybiscus Maconellicoccus hirsutus x del hibisco mealybug Caimán Alligator x Hormiga brasilera Fire ant Solenopsis invicta x Mangosta Mangose x Perros (St. Croix) Dogs x Monos Patas Monkeys x Monos Rhesus Monkeys x Sapo Frog Bufo marinus x Tordo x

Plants Common name Technical name Spanish English Sedges Tree Shrub Forb Vine Grass Fern and Rushes

Acacia amarilla Albizia, tibet Albizia lebbek x Albizia, acasia Tall albizia Albizia procera x Aroma/Rayo Casha Acacia farnesiana x Calotropis Giant milkweed Calotropis procera x Escobilla Sida Sida sp. x Guayabo Guava Psidium guajava x Jacinto de agua Water lettce Eichhornia crassipes x Lechuga de agua Water hyacinth Pistia stratiotes x Leucaena Wild tamarind Leucaena leucocephala x Melaleuca Melaleuca Melaleuca quinquenervia x Mesquite/ Mesquite Propsopis juliflora x Bayahonda Graceful mimosa Mimosa casta x Mimosa negra Black mimosa Mimosa pigra x Neem Neem Azadirachta indica x Yaragua Falsa Jaragua Hyparrhenia rufa x Yerba Buffel Buffel grass Pennisetum ciliare x

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Yerba Caimán Alligator weed Alternantera pylloxeroides x Yerba Elefante Elephant grass Pennisetum purpureum x Yerba Enea Typha Typha dominguensis x Yerba de fuente Fountain grass x (erroneously called Pennisetum setaceum Pampas grass) Yerba Guinea Guinea Urochloa maxima x Yerba Huracán Hurricane grass Bothriochloa pertusa x Yerba Johnson Johnson grass Sorghum halepense x Yerba picante o Itch grass Rottboellia cohin-chinensis x caminadora Yerba Tanner Tanner grass Brachiaria arrecta x Yerba Torcida Twisted grass Heteropogon contortus x Yerba Venezolana Venezuela grass Paspalum fasciculatum x EGM/1999/Invasive Species

USDA, NRCS, Caribbean Area 1999