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Plants > Imports 

ORGANISMS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE A PLANT PROTECTION PERMIT TO IMPORT

Revised on November 3, 2005

Scientific Name Common Name, Synonym, Product name, or Research Descriptor* Origin End Use Type of Organism
All species aquatic snails all N/A Mollusca
All species centipedes all N/A Chilopoda
All species earthworms continental U.S. N/A Oligochaeta
All species leeches all N/A Hirudinea
All species scorpions all N/A Scorpionida
All species spiders all N/A Araneida
Acetobacter xylinum - all N/A Bacteria
Acetogenium kivui - all N/A Bacteria
Acheta domesticus house cricket continental U.S. N/A Insecta
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus - all N/A Bacteria
Acinetobacter lwoffii - all N/A Bacteria
Aeromonas hydrophila - all N/A Bacteria
Agrobacterium radiobacter - all N/A Bacteria
Agrobacterium rhizogenes - all N/A Bacteria
Agrobacterium tumefaciens - all N/A Bacteria
Alcaligenes faecalis - all N/A Bacteria
Amycolatopsis orientalis - all N/A Bacteria
Aquaspirillum magnetotactium - all N/A Bacteria
Aquaspirillum gracile - all N/A Bacteria
Aquaspirillum autotrophicum - all N/A Bacteria
Arthrobacter protophormiae - all N/A Bacteria
Arthrobacter luteus - all N/A Bacteria
Azospirillum brazilense - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus coagulans - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus licheniformis - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus megaterium - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus polymyxa - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus stereothermophilus - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus subtilis - all N/A Bacteria
Bacillus thuringiensis - all N/A Bacteria
Basidiobolus ranarum - all N/A Fungi
Blatella germanica German cockroach, Russian cockroach, Prussian cockroach all N/A Insecta
Bradyrhizobium spp. - all N/A Bacteria
Caenorhabditis elegans - all N/A Nematode
Chromobacterium violaceum - all N/A Bacteria
Citrobacter amalonaticus - all N/A Bacteria
Clostridium sporogenes - all N/A Bacteria
Corynebacterium glutamicum - all N/A Bacteria
Curtobacterium plantarum - all N/A Bacteria
Drosophila melanogaster fruit or vinegar fly all N/A Insecta
Drosophila pseudobscura - continental U.S. N/A Insecta
Enterobacter aerogenes - all N/A Bacteria
Enterobacter cloacae - all N/A Bacteria
Enterococcus spp. - continental U.S. N/A Bacteria
Escherichia coli - all N/A Bacteria
Halobacterium halobium - all N/A Bacteria
Klebsiella oxytoca - all N/A Bacteria
Klebsiella terrigena - all N/A Bacteria
Klebsiella trevisanii - all N/A Bacteria
Kluyvera cryocrescens - all N/A Bacteria
Lactobacillus spp. - all N/A Bacteria
Lactobacillus plantarum - all N/A Bacteria
Leuconostoc mesenteroides - all N/A Bacteria
Methanobacterium espanolae - all N/A Bacteria
Methanobacterium formicicum - all N/A Bacteria
Methanobacterium culumaggergar - all N/A Bacteria
Methanobacterium palustre - all N/A Bacteria
Methanobaterium bryantii - all N/A Bacteria
Methanococcoides methylutens - all N/A Bacteria
Methanohalobium spp. - all N/A Bacteria
Methanolobus tindarius - all N/A Bacteria
Methanospirillum hungatei - all N/A Bacteria
Methylobacterium mesophilicum - all N/A Bacteria
Methylosinus trichosporium - all N/A Bacteria
Micrococcus roseus - all N/A Bacteria
Micrococcus luteus - all N/A Bacteria
Mycobacterium smegmatis - all N/A Bacteria
Mycobacterium phlei - all N/A Bacteria
Myxococcus xanthus - all N/A Bacteria
Nitrobacter winogradski - all N/A Bacteria
Nitrosomonas europaea - all N/A Bacteria
Nocardia petrophilia - all N/A Bacteria
Pediococcus spp. - all N/A Bacteria
Pediococcus acidilactici - all N/A Bacteria
Pediococcus pentosaceus - all N/A Bacteria
Phaffia spp. Yeasts all N/A Fungi
Photobacterium phosphorium - all N/A Bacteria
Phycomyces blakesleeanus - all N/A Fungi
Pilobolus crystallinus - all N/A Fungi
Pogonomyrmex occidentalis harvester ants, worker caste only continental U.S. N/A Insecta
Prochlorothrix hollandica - all N/A Bacteria
Propionibacterium jensenii - all N/A Bacteria
Proteus miralilis - all N/A Bacteria
Proteus vulgaris - all N/A Bacteria
Providencia rettgeri - all N/A Bacteria
Pseudomonas aureofaciens - all N/A Bacteria
Pseudomonas chlororaphis - all N/A Bacteria
Pseudomonas fluorescens - all N/A Bacteria
Pseudomonas putida - all N/A Bacteria
Pseudorobillarda spp. - continental U.S. N/A Fungi
Rhizobium spp. - all N/A Bacteria
Robillarda spp. - continental U.S. N/A Fungi
Saccharomyces spp. Yeasts all N/A Fungi
Sarcina lutea - all N/A Bacteria
Serratia fonticola - all N/A Bacteria
Serratia liquefaciens - all N/A Bacteria
Serratia plymuthica - all N/A Bacteria
Serratia rubidaea - all N/A Bacteria
Spirillum volutans - all N/A Bacteria
Staphylococcus aureus - all N/A Bacteria
Streptococcus spp. - all N/A Bacteria
Streptococcus faecalis - all N/A Bacteria
Streptococcus thermophilus - all N/A Bacteria
Streptomyces albus - all N/A Bacteria
Streptomyces azureus - all N/A Bacteria
Streptomyces griseoviridis - all N/A Bacteria
Streptomyces hygroscopiscus subsp. hygroscopiscus - all N/A Bacteria
Streptomyces lividans - all N/A Bacteria
Sulfolobus acidocaldarius - all N/A Bacteria
Synechococcus leopoliensis - all N/A Bacteria
Sulfolobus solfataricus - all N/A Bacteria
Syntrophospora bryantii - all N/A Bacteria
Tenebrio molitor yellow mealworm continental U.S. N/A Insecta
Thiobacillus ferrooxidans - all N/A Bacteria
Thiobacillus thiooxidans - all N/A Bacteria
Xanthomonas maltophilia - all N/A Bacteria

* For catalogued biological sample, species will be listed per their genetic modification/construct.


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