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Ecuador

South America · South America

Total Species
2522
Threatened
66
CR + EN + VU
Population
17643060
Area
276841 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 8
Endangered 19
Vulnerable 39
Near Threatened 34
Least Concern 401
Data Deficient 52
Not Evaluated 350
Extinct 11

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 2085
Plantae 435
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Ecuador

Eden's whale

Balaenoptera edeni

Data Deficient

southern tamandua

Tamandua tetradactyla

Least Concern

giant anteater

Myrmecophaga tridactyla

Vulnerable

Large-billed Seed-Finch

Sporophila crassirostris

Least Concern

kinkajou

Potos flavus

Least Concern

common opossum

Didelphis marsupialis

Least Concern

dwarf sperm whale

Kogia sima

Data Deficient

disc web spiders

Oecobius navus

Least Concern

American mink

Mustela vison

Not Evaluated

Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca diadema

Least Concern

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

horse

Equus caballus

Not Evaluated

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

cobweb spiders

Steatoda grossa

Least Concern

brown-throated three-toed sloth

Bradypus variegatus

Least Concern

Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch

Sporophila angolensis

Least Concern

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager

Cnemathraupis eximia

Least Concern

red howler monkey

Alouatta seniculus

Least Concern

Crowned Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca frontalis

Least Concern

Hoffmann's two-toed sloth

Choloepus hoffmanni

Least Concern

jaguar

Panthera onca

Near Threatened

Lowland Tapir

Tapirus terrestris

Vulnerable

Variegated Bristle-Tyrant

Phylloscartes poecilotis

Least Concern

Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant

Phylloscartes ophthalmicus

Least Concern

Lesser Kiskadee

Pitangus lictor

Least Concern

Coopmans's Elaenia

Elaenia brachyptera

Least Concern

Lion

Panthera leo

Vulnerable

lowland paca

Cuniculus paca

Least Concern

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Not Evaluated

jumping spiders

Hasarius adansoni

Least Concern

White-fronted Spider Monkey

Ateles belzebuth

Endangered

Bicolored trailing ant

Monomorium floricola

Not Evaluated

Central American agouti

Dasyprocta punctata

Least Concern

Small hive beetle

Aethina tumida

Not Evaluated

aurochs

Bos taurus

Not Evaluated

ass

Equus asinus

Not Evaluated

Citrus leafminer

Phyllocnistis citrella

Not Evaluated

ocelot

Leopardus pardalis

Least Concern

puma

Puma concolor

Least Concern

Brown Widow

Latrodectus geometricus

Not Evaluated

Northern tamandua

Tamandua mexicana

Least Concern

Thick-billed Seed-Finch

Sporophila funerea

Least Concern

Spectacled bear

Tremarctos ornatus

Vulnerable

Amazon River Dolphin

Inia geoffrensis

Data Deficient

giant armadillo

Priodontes maximus

Vulnerable

Russet-crowned Crake

Anurolimnas viridis

Least Concern

giraffe

Giraffa camelopardalis

Vulnerable

Gray-bellied Night Monkey

Aotus lemurinus

Vulnerable

Black-billed Seed-Finch

Sporophila atrirostris

Least Concern

Long-tailed Chinchilla

Chinchilla lanigera

Not Evaluated

Water Opossum

Chironectes minimus

Least Concern

Smoky-brown Woodpecker

Picoides fumigatus

Least Concern

spirea aphid

Aphis spiraecola

Not Evaluated

Cottony cushion scale

Icerya purchasi

Not Evaluated

tayra

Eira barbara

Least Concern

Redclaw

Cherax quadricarinatus

Least Concern

common vampire bat

Desmodus rotundus

Least Concern

Seba's Short-tailed Bat

Carollia perspicillata

Least Concern

Silky Short-tailed Bat

Carollia brevicaudum

Least Concern

Great Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus lituratus

Least Concern

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