Ecuador
South America · South America
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
Al-dolpheen
Delphinus delphis
Delfin Azrak wa Abyad
Stenella coeruleoalba
Delfin Kabir
Tursiops truncatus
Dheeb
Canis lupus
kharwa'a
Ricinus communis
زيفيوس (Zifius)
Ziphius cavirostris
غرامبوس (ghrambous)
Grampus griseus
Amazon River Dolphin
Inia geoffrensis
Ecoregions
Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Napo moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Western Ecuador moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Ecuadorian dry forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Tumbes-Piura dry forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Guayaquil flooded grasslands
Flooded Grasslands & Savannas · Neotropic
All Species in Ecuador
White-vented Plumeleteer
Chalybura buffonii
Empress Brilliant
Heliodoxa imperatrix
Tourmaline Sunangel
Heliangelus exortis
Rainbow-bearded Thornbill
Chalcostigma herrani
Booted Racket-tail
Ocreatus underwoodii
Long-billed Starthroat
Heliomaster longirostris
Blue-tailed Emerald
Chlorostilbon mellisugus
Green-tailed Trainbearer
Lesbia nuna
Green-fronted Lancebill
Doryfera ludovicae
Buff-tailed Coronet
Boissonneaua flavescens
Brown Violetear
Colibri delphinae
Mexican Violetear
Colibri thalassinus
Sparkling Violetear
Colibri coruscans
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseus
Blue Dacnis
Dacnis cayana
Black-winged Saltator
Saltator atripennis
Grayish Saltator
Saltator coerulescens
Streaked Saltator
Saltator striatipectus
Slate-colored Grosbeak
Saltator grossus
Buff-throated Saltator
Saltator maximus
Red-crested Cardinal
Paroaria coronata
American mink
Mustela vison
Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca diadema
brown-throated three-toed sloth
Bradypus variegatus
Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
Sporophila angolensis
Dowdy Plume
Stenoptilia zophodactylus
Big Brown Bat
Eptesicus fuscus
Goblin Spiders
Triaeris stenaspis
tropical bottlenose whale
Indopacetus pacificus
Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon ginkgodens
Vicugna
Vicugna vicugna
llama
Lama glama
Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Cabassous centralis
Bryozoan
Watersipora subtorquata
Spix s Night Monkey
Aotus vociferans
Small eared zorro
Atelocynus microtis
culpeo
Lycalopex culpaeus
white-lipped peccary
Tayassu pecari
capybara
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
spitting spiders
Scytodes fusca
greater grison
Galictis vittata
Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus planirostris
Jelski's Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca jelskii
tufted capuchin
Sapajus apella
Tucuxi
Sotalia fluviatilis
axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
Meerkat
Suricata suricatta
pacarana
Dinomys branickii
Peters's Ghost-faced Bat
Mormoops megalophylla
Short-tailed Sigmodontomys
Sigmodontomys alfari
Narrow-footed Neacomys
Neacomys tenuipes
Four-toed Hedgehog
Atelerix albiventris
Red Bat (known as the Western Red Bat in North America)
Lasiurus blossevillii
Lesser Long-tongued Bat
Choeroniscus minor
Little Big-eyed Bat
Chiroderma trinitatum
Dark fruit-eating bat
Artibeus obscurus
Lake Titicaca Frog
Telmatobius culeus
Proboscis Bat
Rhynchonycteris naso
Sanborn’s Bonneted Bat
Eumops hansae
Gray-bellied Caenolestid
Caenolestes caniventer
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