Below are vertebrates introduced through the marketplace.
Not all are causing harm, but many are invasive in the U.S.
Amphibians
- Afrixalus fornasini
- Fornasini’s spiny reed frog
- Bombina orientalis
- Oriental fire-bellied toad
- Cynops orientalis
- Oriental fire-bellied newt
- Cynops pyrrhogaster
- Japanese fire-bellied salamander
- Dendrobates leucomelas
- Yellow-banded dart-poison frog
- Dendrobates sp.
- Dart-poison frog
- Kaloula pulchra
- Malaysian painted frog
- Litoria caerulea
- Australian green tree frog
- Pachymedusa dacnicolor
- Mexican leaf frog
- Pachytriton labiatus
- Paddle-tail newt
- Pipa pipa
- Suriname toad
- Scinax rubra
- Common scinax
- Xenopus laevis
- African clawed frog
Fish
- Acanthogobius flavimanus
- Yellowfin goby
- Ancistrus cf. temminckii
- Bristlenosed catfish
- Anguilla anguilla
- European eel
- Anguilla australis
- Shortfin eel
- Anguilla marmorata
- Marbled eel
- Apeltes quadracus
- Fourspine stickleback
- Aphyocharax anisitsi
- Bloodfin tetra
- Astronotus ocellatus
- Oscar
- Belonesox belizanus
- Pike killifish
- Carassius auratus
- Goldfish
- Cephalopholis argus
- Peacock hind
- Channa argus
- Northern snakehead
- Channa maculata
- Blotched snakehead
- Channa marulius
- Bullseye snakehead
- Chiloscyllium punctatum
- Brownbanded bamboo shark
- Chirostoma jordani
- Mesa silverside
- Cichla ocellaris
- Butterfly peacock bass
- Cichlasoma bimaculatum
- Black acara
- Cichlasoma octofasciata
- Jack dempsey
- Cichlasoma spilurum
- Blue-eyed cichlid
- Colisa fasciata
- Banded gourami
- Coregonus albula
- Vendace
- Coregonus maraena
- Maraena whitefish
- Coregonus wartmanni
- Blaufelchen
- Ctenopharyngodon idella
- Grass carp
- Cyprinus carpio
- Common carp
- Dawkinsia filamentosa
- Blackspot barb
- Enneacanthus gloriosus
- Bluespotted sunfish
- Hemichromis elongatus
- Banded jewelfish
- Heros severus
- Banded cichlid
- Hoplosternum littorale
- Brown hoplo
- Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
- Silver carp
- Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
- Bighead carp
- Hypostomus plecostomus
- Suckermouth catfish
- Labeo chrysophekadion
- Blackshark minnow, black labeo
- Leporinus fasciatus
- Banded leporinus
- Leuciscus idus
- Ide
- Melanochromis johannii
- Bluegray mbuna
- Melanotaenia nigrans
- Black-banded rainbow fish
- Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
- Oriental weatherfish
- Monopterus albus
- Asian swamp eel
- Mylopharyngodon piceus
- Black carp
- Notropis buchanani
- Ghost shiner
- Oreochromis aureus
- Blue tilapia
- Oreochromis mossambicus
- Mozambique tilapia
- Oreochromis niloticus
- Nile tilapia
- Oryzias latipes
- Japanese medaka
- Osphronemus goramy
- Giant gourami
- Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
- Arowana
- Phenacobius mirabilis
- Suckermouth minnow
- Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
- Redtail catfish
- Polypterus delhezi
- Barred bichir
- Pomacanthus annularis
- Blue ringed angelfish
- Pomacanthus asfur
- Arabian angel
- Pomacanthus xanthometopon
- Bluefaced angel
- Pseudotropheus socolofi
- Pindani
- Pseudotropheus sp.
- African lake cichlid
- Pterophyllum scalare
- Freshwater angelfish
- Pterygoplichthys pardalis
- Amazon sailfin catfish
- Puntius semifasciolatus
- Green barb
- Rhamdia quelen
- Bagre
- Rhinecanthus verrucosus
- Bursa triggerfish
- Rhinogobius brunneus
- Amur goby
- Rhodeus sericeus
- Bitterling
- Sarotherodon melanotheron
- Blackchin tilapia
- Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- Rudd
- Scatophagus argus
- Scat
- Tetraodon nigroviridis
- Spotted green pufferfish
- Tilapia rendalli
- Redbreast tilapia
- Tilapia sparrmanii
- Banded tilapia
- Tilapia zillii
- Redbelly tilapia
- Tinca tinca
- Tench
- Xenentodon cancila
- Asian needlefish
- Zebrasoma scopas
- Brown tang
Mammals
- Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
- Capybara
- Myocastor coypus
- Nutria
Reptiles
- Caiman crocodilus
- Common caiman
- Chelus fimbriatus
- Matamata
- Chinemys reevesii
- Chinese three-keeled pond turtle
- Cuora flavomarginata
- Yellow-margined box turtle
- Erpeton tentaculatus
- Tentacled snake
- Eunectes murinus
- Green anaconda
- Eunectes notaeus
- Yellow anaconda
- Kinosternon scorpioides
- Scorpion mud turtle
- Mauremys caspica
- Caspian turtle
- Palea steindachneri
- Wattle-necked softshell
- Paleosuchus palpebrosus
- Cuvier’s smooth-fronted caiman
- Pelodiscus sinensis
- Chinese softshell
- Pelusios subniger
- East African black mud turtle
- Platemys platycephala
- Twist-necked turtle
- Podocnemis unifilis
- Yellow-spotted river turtle
- Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima
- Painted wood turtle
- Staurotypus salvinii
- Pacific coast giant musk turtle
- Trachemys stejnegeri malonei
- Inagua slider