PROHIBITED SPECIES

• Mongoose (Herpestes)
  
• Monk parakeet
  
•  Purple swamphen
  
• Snakehead (Channidae)
  
• African tigerfish
  
• Bighead/ silver/black carps
  
• Lates
  
• Wels catfish
  
• Dreissenid mussels
  
• Giant African land snail
  
• Marbled crayfish
  

INHERENTLY DANGEROUS ANIMALS

Mammals:

• Bovids (Genera Addax, Alcelaphus, Boselaphus, Connochaetes, Syncerus, and Taurotragus)
  
• Kouprey
  
• Sable
  
• Gemsbok
  
• Hippopotamus
  
• Warthog (Phacochoerus)
  
• Canines (Canis, Chrysocyon, Cuon, and Lycaon) except coyote
  
• Felidae
  
• Hyenas and aardwolves  
  
• Wolverine 
  
• Bears
  
• Marsupials (Macropodidae)
  
• Rhinoceros
  
• Elephants
  
• Great apes (Gorilla, Pan, and Pongo)
  
• Lesser apes (Hylobatidae)
  
• Primates (Macaca, Mandrillus, Theropithecus, and Papio)
  

Reptiles:  

• Crocodilians
• Venomous snakes (Families Atractaspididae, Elapidae, Viperidae)
  
• Snakes (Balanophis, Macropisthodon, Rhabdophis, Dispholidus, Thelotornis, Thrasops)
  
• Gila monster, beaded lizard (Family Helodermatidae)
  

Fish:        

• Piranha (Genera Serrasalminae)
  
• Gymnotid eels (Electrophorus) – may transport, possess, transfer and sell for 12 months
  
• American stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) – may transport, possess, transfer and sell for 12 months
  
• Stonefish
  
• Weaverfish (Trachinidae)
  
• Candiru (Vandellia)
  

Invertebrates

• Fattail scorpion (Androctonus)
  
• Bark scorpion (Centruroides)
  
• Burrowing thicktailed scoprions (Parabuthus)
  
• Deathstalker
  
• Yellow-legged creeping scorpion
  

WILD ANIMALS

Mammals:

• Moles, tenrecs (Afrosoricida)
  
• Artiodactyla except buffalo, water buffalo, llama, alpaca
  
• Carnivora (all) except European ferret if fixed by 7 months and rabies vaccine
  
• Bats
  
• Order Cingulata
  
• Flying lemurs (Dermoptera)
  
• Marsupials (Diprotodontia and Peramelemorphia) except sugar glider from USDA source
  
• Hedgehogs (Erinaceopmorpha)
  
• Cony (Hyracoidea)
  
• Rabbits, hares (Lagomorpha)
  
• Elephant shrews (Macroscelida)
  
• Perissodactyla
  
• Pholidota
  
• Sloths, etc. (Pilosa)
  
• Primates (all)
  
• Rodents except Genera Cavia, Chinchilla, Gerbillus, Meriones, Mesocricetus and house mouse, black rat and Norway rat
  
• Manatees, etc. (Sirenia)
  
• Tree shrews (Scandentia)
  
• Shrews and moles (Soricomorpha)
  
• Aardvark (Tubulidentata)
  

Birds:       

• Accipitriformes except falconry
  
• New World vultures and condors (Cathartiformes)
  
• Cuckoos (Cuculiformes)
  
• Falcons (Falconiformes) except falconry
  
• Turkeys (Meleagris)
  
• Eurasian sky lark
  
• Crows and ravens (Corvidae)
  
• Yellow hammer
  
• Birds (Molothrus, Quiscalus, and Agelaius)
  
• Ploceidae
  
• Passer except English house sparrow
  
• Cape weaver
  
• Baya weaver
  
• Quelea (Quelea)
  
• Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae)
  
• Genus Turdus
  
• White eyes (Zosterops)
  
• Java sparrow
  
• Starlings and mynas (Sturnidae) except starling and hill myna
  
• Owls (Strigiformes) except for falconry
  

Reptiles – limited to scientific, educational, or public exhibition and pets registered within 12 months

• Indian rock python
  
• Burmese python
• Argentine black-and-white tegu
• Nile monitor
• African helmeted turtle
• Chinese softshell turtle
  

Amphibians:

• Marine toad, rococo toad, cane toad
  

Fish – new species may be possessed, sold or transferred for 12 months

• Arapaimas
  
• Trahiras
  
• Banded Astyanax
  
• Grass carp
  
• Airbreathing catfish (Clariidae)
  
• Airsac catfish (Heteropneustidae)
  
• Goonch catfish (Bagarius)
  
• Swamp eels (Synbranchidae)
  
• Exotic fish not in tanks or aquaria except domestic species 
  

Invertebrates – new species may be possessed, sold or transferred 12 months

• Apple snail (Pomacea) – limited to scientific
  
• Asian mystery snail (Cipangopaludina) – Limited to scientific
• New Zealand mud snail
• Bumblebee snail
• Mussels (Etheriidae, Hyriidae, Iridinidae, Mycetopodidae, Anodonta, Sinanodonta)
  
• Crayfish (Astacidae, Cambaridae, Cambaroididae, Parastacidae) except red swamp and white river
• Penaeid shrimps (Penaeidae)
  
• Freshwater and marine invertebrates not in aquaria or tank
  

ENDANGERED, THREATENED, RARE SPECIES

Mammals: 

• Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (rare)
  
• Gray Bat (endangered)
  
• Indiana Bat (endangered)
  
• North Atlantic Right Whale (endangered)
  
• Humpback Whale (endangered)
  
• Southeastern Pocket Gopher (threatened)
  
• Round-tailed Muskrat (threatened)
  
• Florida Panther (endangered)
  
• Appalachian Cottontail (rare)
  
• West Indian Manatee (endangered)
  

Birds:     

• Bachman's Sparrow (rare)
  
• Henslow's Sparrow (rare)
  
• Red Knot (rare)
  
• Ivory-billed Woodpecker (endangered)
  
• Piping Plover (threatened)
  
• Wilson's Plover (threatened)
  
• Common Raven (rare)
  
• Cerulean Warbler (rare)
  
• Kirtland's Warbler (endangered)
  
• Swallow-tailed Kite (rare)
  
• Peregrine Falcon (rare)
  
• Southeastern Kestrel (rare)
  
• American Oystercatcher (rare)
  
• Bald Eagle (threatened)
  
• Wood Stork (endangered)
  
• Red-cockaded Woodpecker (endangered)
  
• Black Skimmer (rare)
  
• Least Tern (rare)
  
• Gull-billed Tern (threatened)
  
• Golden-winged Warbler (endangered)
  

Reptiles:  

• Loggerhead Sea Turtle (endangered)
  
• Green Sea Turtle (threatened)
  
• Spotted Turtle (unusual)
  
• Leatherback Sea Turtle (endangered)
  
• Hawksbill Sea Turtle (endangered)
  
• Bog Turtle (endangered)
  
• Gopher Tortoise (threatened)
  
• Barbour's Map Turtle (threatened)
  
• Common Map Turtle (rare)
  
• Alabama Map Turtle (rare)
  
• Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle (endangered)
  
• Alligator Snapping Turtle (threatened)
  
• Eastern Indigo Snake (threatened)
  
• Southern Hognose Snake (threatened)
  
• Diamondback Terrapin (unusual)
  
• Mimic Glass Lizard (rare)
  

Amphibians:

• Flatwoods Salamander (threatened)
  
• One-toed Amphiuma (rare)
  
• Green Salamander (rare)
  
• Hellbender (threatened)
  
• Tennessee Cave Salamander (threatened)
  
• Georgia Blind Salamander (threatened)
  
• Striped Newt (threatened)
  
• Pigeon Mountain Salamander (rare)
  
• Gopher Frog (rare)
  

Fish:        

• Shortnose Sturgeon (endangered)
  
• Alabama Shad (threatened)
  
• Spotted Bullhead (rare)
  
• Blue Shiner (endangered)
  
• Bluestripe Shiner (rare)
  
• Altamaha Shiner (threatened)
  
• Bluebarred Pygmy Sunfish (endangered)
  
• Blackbanded Sunfish (endangered)
  
• Blotched Chub (endangered)
  
• Holiday Darter (endangered)
  
• Greenfin Darter (threatened)
  
• Lipstick Darter (endangered)
  
• Coldwater Darter (endangered)
  
• Black Darter (rare)
  
• Etowah Darter (endangered)
  
• Goldstripe Darter (rare)
  
• Rock Darter (rare)
  
• Cherokee Darter (threatened)
  
• Tallapoosa Darter (rare)
  
• Trispot Darter (endangered)
  
• Wounded Darter (endangered)
  
• Stippled Studfish (endangered)
  
• Northern Studfish (rare)
  
• Flame Chub (endangered)
  
• Lined Chub (rare)
  
• Ohio Lamprey (rare)
  
• Bluefin Killifish (rare)
  
• Coosa Chub (endangered)
  
• Suwannee Bass (rare)
  
• River Redhorse (rare)
  
• Robust Redhorse (endangered)
  
• Sicklefin Redhorse (endangered)
  
• Popeye Shiner (endangered)
  
• Burrhead Shiner (threatened)
  
• Highscale Shiner (rare)
  
• Silver Shiner (endangered)
  
• Sandbar Shiner (rare)
  
• Mountain Madtom (endangered)
  
• Frecklebelly Madtom (endangered)
  
• Amber Darter (endangered)
  
• Tangerine Darter (endangered)
  
• Goldline Darter (endangered)
  
• Conasauga Logperch (endangered)
  
• Freckled Darter (endangered)
  
• Dusky Darter (rare)
  
• River Darter (endangered)
  
• Halloween Darter (threatened)
  
• Muscadine Darter (rare)
  
• Upland Bridled Darter (endangered)
  
• Olive Darter (endangered)
  
• Snail Darter (endangered)
  
• Fatlips Minnow (endangered)
  
• Stargazing Minnow (threatened)
  
• Tennessee Dace (endangered)
  
• Broadstripe Shiner (rare)
  
• Bluenose Shiner (threatened)
  
• Southern Cavefish (endangered)
  

Mussels: 

• Altamaha Arcmussel (threatened)
  
• Southern Elktoe (endangered)
  
• Fat Threeridge (endangered)
  
• Apalachicola Floater (rare)
  
• Rayed Creekshell (threatened)
  
• Alabama Spike (endangered)
  
• Delicate Spike (endangered)
  
• Inflated Spike (threatened)
  
• Altamaha Spinymussel (endangered)
  
• Purple Bankclimber (threatened)
  
• Upland Combshell (endangered)
  
• Southern Acornshell (endangered)
  
• Atlantic Pigtoe (endangered)
  
• Fine - lined Pocketbook (threatened)
  
• Shinyrayed Pocketbook (endangered)
  
• Alabama Moccasinshell (threatened)
  
• Coosa Moccasinshell (endangered)
  
• Gulf Moccasinshell (endangered)
  
• Ochlockonee Moccasinshell (endangered)
  
• Southern Clubshell (endangered)
  
• Southern Pigtoe (endangered)
  
• Georgia Pigtoe (endangered)
  
• Oval Pigtoe (endangered)
  
• Triangular Kidneyshell (endangered)
  
• Alabama Creekmussel (endangered)
  
• Southern Creekmussel (endangered)
  
• Savannah Lilliput (threatened)
  

Crayfish: 

• Coosawattee Crayfish (endangered)
  
• Dougherty Plain Cave Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Conasauga Blue Burrower (endangered)
  
• Dougherty Burrowing Crayfish (endangered)
  
• Tallapoosa Crayfish (rare)
  
• Chickamauga Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Etowah Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Little Tennessee Crayfish (endangered)
  
• Piedmont Blue Burrower (endangered)
  
• Chattahoochee Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Hiwassee Headwaters Crayfish (endangered)
  
• Chattooga River Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Beautiful Crayfish (endangered)
  
• Lean Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Oconee Burrowing Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Blackbarred Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Broad River Burrowing Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Muckalee Crayfish (threatened)
  
• Grainy Crayfish (rare)
  
• Sly Crayfish (rare)
  

Insects: 

• Say's Spiketail (threatened)
  
• Cherokee Clubtail (threatened)
  
• Edmund's Snaketail (endangered)
  

Snails:      

• Interrupted Rocksnail (endangered)
  

GEORGIA ANIMAL LISTS