Weekend Blog Blogging

The past week in invasive species posts, from elsewhere in the blogosphere:

• Snail's Tales has a tale about discovering Japanese mystery snails in the Potomac River. (Thanks budak!)
• The Grinder, CHOW's foodie blog, posts about salmon farms in Chile.
• Over at National Geographic's NGC Blog, Elena Cruz gives folks a sneak peak of her upcoming feature called "Fishzilla! Snakehead Invasion." Hopefully it will be airing again this month because I missed it!

Chile Con Carne

The Santiago Times is reporting that Chile's Department of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) recently came out with a list of undesirable non-native animals for their country. Among the list of feral baddies are:

• Canadian beaver (Castor canadensis)
• hare (Lepus?)
• mink (probably the American mink, Mustela vison)
• muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus?)
• roof mouse (Hmmm..."roof rat" is a common name for Rattus rattus)
• wild boar (Sus scrofa, the feral pig)
• red deer (Cervus elaphus)
• feral rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus?)
• feral goat (likely Capra hircus)
• feral cat (Felis catus)
• feral dog (Canis lupus)
• Argentine parrot (possibly referring to the Monk parrot, Myiopsitta monachus)

If I can find the official list I will post it here.

Thanks to monopolist for coming up with the punny title.