Resources
Identification guides and species information
View identification guides for many invasive species from: Identification guides – Invasives.ie
Identification Guide to Ireland’s Regulated Invasive Alien Plant Species (Flipbook)
Access referenced species profile accounts with interactive distribution maps by visiting Home – Biodiversity Maps, search for your species of interest and then click on the ‘Species Profile’ paw button on the left side of the screen. This will bring you to the species account.
Additional identification and information resources on Invasive Alien Species of Union concern available from the European Commission:
- A brochure with 88 of the 114 Invasive Alien Species of Union concern is available to download just under the heading ‘Union List’ in the European Commission’s Invasive Alien Species Regulation website (87MB).
- Identification of invasive alien species of Union concern in the field (2020) covering: Coypu, Parrot’s feather, Broadleaf watermilfoil, Muskrat, Spinycheek crayfish, Virile crayfish, American signal crayfish, Red swamp and, Marbled crayfish
- Identification of IAS of Union concern in the framework of a surveillance system (2017) covering: Myocastor coypus; Ondatra zibethicus; – Similar species; Myriophyllum aquaticum; Myriophyllum heterophyllum; Orconectes limosus; Orconectes virilis; Pacifastacus leniusculus; Procambarus clarkii; Procambarus fallax f. virginalis
- Support for customs and/or surveillance on the identification of IAS of Union concern (2019) covering: Acridotheres tristis; Arthurdendyus triangulatus; Gymnocoronis spilanthoides; Salvinia molesta; Acacia saligna
- Guide 2: Identification of invasive alien species of Union concern during customs controls (2020) covering: alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides); Pallas’s squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus); Chilean rhubarb (Gunnera tinctoria); parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum); broadleaf watermilfoil (Myriophyllum heterophyllum); spinycheek crayfish (Orconectes limosus); fountain grass (Pennisteum setaceum); marbled crayfish (Procambarus fallax f. virginalis); grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis); Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus)
- Purse, B. V., et al., (2020) The role of invasive alien species in the emergence and spread of zoonoses. Technical note prepared by IUCN for the European Commission.