FLORIDA CONDITIONAL/PROHIBITED

CONDITIONAL NON-NATIVE SPECIES

Non-native Fish:

• Bighead carp
  
• Arapaima
• Heterotis
• Dorados (Genus Salminus)
• Freshwater stingrays (Family Potamotrygonidae)
• Grass Carp (see 68A-23.088)
  
• Silver Carp
• Black Carp
• Nile perch (Genus Lates)
  
  • Aquaculture facilities on 4/11/2007 without Nile perches and new facilities must keep them indoors and shall not be taken for fee
    

• Blue Tilapia (Northeast, North Central, South and Southwest counties exempt)
  
• Wama Tilapia
• Mozambique tilapia
• Nile tilapia (Northeast, North Central, South and Southwest counties exempt)
• Walking catfish
• Blue Catfish (except Suwannee River and north and west of it)
• Arowana (Family Osteoglossidae) except Silver
• Northern largemouth bass (intergrade largemouth bass legal in Suwannee River and tributaries and to north and west)

Crayfish:

• Australian red claw crayfish (closed tanks)
  
• Red swamp crayfish and White River crayfish (no permit for west of the Apalachicola River and tributaries or import for food wholesalers and retailers for resale to consumers)
  
  • Bans pond aquaculture
    

Non-native Mammals:

• Nutria
  

Non-native Turtles:

• Red-eared slider – limited to permit or commercial import/export business
  
  • EXEMPT: personal possession before 7/1/2007 AND those with distinctive aberrant color patterns
    
  • Those less than 4” carapace need permit after 7/1/08
    

Non-native Snakes/Lizards:

• None
  

PROHIBITED NON-NATIVE SPECIES

  Fish:   

• African electric catfishes (Family Malapteruridae)
  
• African tigerfishes (Genus Hydrocynus)
• Airbreathing catfishes (Family Clariidae) except Clarias batrachus
• Candiru catfishes (Family Trichomycteridae)
• Freshwater electric eels
• Lampreys (Family Petromyzontidae)
• Piranha and pirambeba (subfamily Serrasalminae)
• Snakeheads (Family Channidae)
  
• Tilapias (Genera Tilapia, Sarotherodon, Alcolapia and Oreochromis) except conditional blue, wami, Mozambique and Nile
• Trahiras or Tigerfishes (Family Erythrinidae)
• Airsac catfishes (Family Heteropneustidae)
• Green sunfish

Crayfish: 

• Australian crayfish (Genus Cherax) except conditional Australian red claw
  

 Mussels:  

• Zebra mussel
  
• Quagga mussel
  

Mammals: 

• African giant pouched rats (Genus Cricetomys)
  
• Brushtail possum
  
• Dhole
• Flying foxes (Genus Pteropus)
• Mongoose, meerkats (Genera Atilax, Cynictis, Helogale, Herpestes, Ichneumia, Mungos, and Suricata)
• Raccoon dog

Marine:  

• Mitten crab (Genus Eriocheir)
  
• Sea snakes (Family Hydrophiidae) – except in 68-5.007(1)(f)
• Weeverfishes (Family Trachinidae)
• Stone fishes (Genus Synanceia)
• Pitted stonefish
• Red rock cod
• Stonefish
• Stargazing stonefish

Reptiles:

• Yellow anaconda
  
• Beni anaconda
• DeSchauensee’s anaconda
• Brown tree snake
• Indian or Burmese python (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Reticulated python (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Northern African python (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Southern African python (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Amethystine python (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Scrub python (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Green anaconda (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Nile monitor (Moved from Conditional 2/25/21)
  
• Green iguana (Added 2/25/21)
  
• Tegus (genera Salvator and Tupinambis) (Added 2/25/21)
  

Birds: 

• Dioch
  
• Java sparrow
• Pink starling
• Red-whiskered bul-bul