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Cabo Verde

Africa · Western Africa

Total Species
126
Threatened
0
CR + EN + VU
Population
555,987
Area
4,033 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 1
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 1
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 82
Plantae 44

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Cabo Verde

African tuliptree

Spathodea campanulata

Not Evaluated

agate cone

Conus ermineus

Least Concern

Anil de pasto

Indigofera suffruticosa

Least Concern

Aniseed-Weed

Foeniculum vulgare

Not Evaluated

Aroma

Dichrostachys cinerea

Least Concern

Banana bud moth

Opogona sacchari

Not Evaluated

Barbados nut

Jatropha curcas

Not Evaluated

Beach sheoak

Casuarina equisetifolia

Not Evaluated

Beet Armyworm

Spodoptera exigua

Not Evaluated

Beet Webworm

Spoladea recurvalis

Not Evaluated

Bicolored trailing ant

Monomorium floricola

Not Evaluated

Black Cutworm

Agrotis ipsilon

Least Concern

Black Mustard

Brassica nigra

Least Concern

blackneck

Lygephila pastinum

Least Concern

black rat

Rattus rattus

Extinct

Black wattle

Acacia mearnsii

Not Evaluated

bordered straw

Heliothis peltigera

Not Evaluated

Brown Rat

Rattus norvegicus

Least Concern

brown slug

Deroceras laeve

Least Concern

Bryozoan

Watersipora subtorquata

Not Evaluated

Cabbage Looper

Trichoplusia ni

Not Evaluated

Cabbage Moth

Plutella xylostella

Least Concern

Cabbage webworm

Hellula undalis

Not Evaluated

Castor

Ricinus communis

Not Evaluated

Cat

Felis catus

Not Evaluated

Cathedral bells

Kalanchoe pinnata

Not Evaluated

Chinaberrytree

Melia azedarach

Not Evaluated

Citrus flower moth

Prays citri

Not Evaluated

Clover Cutworm

Anarta trifolii

Least Concern

Coastal wattle

Acacia cyclops

Least Concern

Cocoa moth

Ephestia elutella

Least Concern

Coco yam

Colocasia esculenta

Not Evaluated

comb hyptis

Mesosphaerum pectinatum

Not Evaluated

Common Waxbill

Estrilda astrild

Least Concern

convolvulus hawkmoth

Agrius convolvuli

Not Evaluated

cotton bollworm

Helicoverpa armigera

Not Evaluated

Cottony cushion scale

Icerya purchasi

Not Evaluated

Crambid Moth

Duponchelia fovealis

Not Evaluated

Crescent Dart

Agrotis trux

Not Evaluated

crimson speckled

Utetheisa pulchella

Not Evaluated

crispate scissurelle

Anatoma crispata

Data Deficient

Cucumber moth

Diaphania indica

Not Evaluated

Cutleaf groundcherry

Physalis angulata

Least Concern

Cutworm

Callopistria maillardi

Not Evaluated

Death's-head Hawk Moth

Acherontia atropos

Not Evaluated

Divided Tunicate

Styela canopus

Not Evaluated

domestic goat

Capra hircus

Not Evaluated

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Egyptian Bollworm

Earias insulana

Not Evaluated

Egyptian Cotton Leafworm

Spodoptera littoralis

Not Evaluated

Egyptian grass

Dactyloctenium aegyptium

Not Evaluated

emerald nerite

Smaragdia viridis

Not Evaluated

Eurasian Collared Dove

Streptopelia decaocto

Near Threatened

Eurasian Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis

Least Concern

European rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Near Threatened

False codling moth

Thaumatotibia leucotreta

Not Evaluated

Florida dog winkle

Stramonita haemastoma

Not Evaluated

garter cone

Conus genuanus

Least Concern

Gem

Orthonama obstipata

Not Evaluated

Geometrician

Grammodes stolida

Not Evaluated

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