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Worldwide Distribution, Spread of, and Efforts to Eradicate the Nutria (Myocastor coypus)

Related Links

• http://www.nutria.com (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries site that contains information on nutria impact on Louisiana marshes and information about the State’s control program)
  
  
• http://www.brownmarsh.net/data/IV_1.htm (Review paper on nutria done for the State of Louisiana, a.k.a. “Genesis report”)
  
  
• http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/nutria/readme.htm (Computer model developed by Jacoby Carter, USGS)
  
  
• http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/nutria.htm (Describes work done at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center on nutria impacts in Maryland)
  
  
• http://www.iisgcp.org/EXOTICSP/nutria.htm (Contains information on general biology of nutria and links to other sources of information)
  
  
• http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/myocastor/m._coypus.html (Describes nutria taxonomy and phylogeny)
  
  
• http://books.nap.edu/books/030904295X/html/217.html#pagetop (Contains information on raising nutria in captivity)
  

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