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Sri Lanka

Asia · Southern Asia

Total Species
109
Threatened
3
CR + EN + VU
Population
21.413.250
Area
65.610 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Least Concern 15
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 31
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 78
Animalia 30
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Sri Lanka

Zierlicher Fuchsschwanz

Amaranthus viridis

Not Evaluated

Cyanobacterium

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

Not Evaluated

Indian Cobra

Naja naja

Least Concern

American Bull Frog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Not Evaluated

Cat

Felis catus

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Not Evaluated

Bryozoan

Watersipora subtorquata

Not Evaluated

Brachionid rotifer

Brachionus forficula

Not Evaluated

crown-of-thorns

Acanthaster planci

Not Evaluated

orange cup coral

Tubastraea coccinea

Not Evaluated

Lantana

Lantana camara

Least Concern

Blackwood

Acacia melanoxylon

Not Evaluated

Sydney golden wattle

Acacia longifolia

Not Evaluated

Honduras mahogany

Swietenia macrophylla

Endangered

Egyptian grass

Dactyloctenium aegyptium

Not Evaluated

Delta maidenhair fern

Adiantum raddianum

Not Evaluated

Quinine tree

Cinchona pubescens

Vulnerable

Royal poinciana

Delonix regia

Least Concern

Coral vine

Antigonon leptopus

Not Evaluated

Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye

Sphagneticola trilobata

Not Evaluated

Hispid starbur

Acanthospermum hispidum

Not Evaluated

River sheoak

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Least Concern

Black wattle

Acacia mangium

Not Evaluated

Pride-of-barbados

Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Least Concern

sawah-flower-rush

Limnocharis flava

Not Evaluated

Purple plague

Miconia calvescens

Least Concern

Earleaf acacia

Acacia auriculiformis

Least Concern

red spiderling

Boerhavia diffusa

Least Concern

Creeping water Primrose

Ludwigia adscendens

Least Concern

Peruvian primrose-willow

Ludwigia peruviana

Not Evaluated

calopo

Calopogonium mucunoides

Least Concern

Black mimosa

Mimosa pigra

Least Concern

Deviltree

Alstonia macrophylla

Least Concern

Linear Leaf Water Primrose

Ludwigia hyssopifolia

Least Concern

creeping sensitive-plant

Mimosa invisa

Not Evaluated

Water spangles

Salvinia minima

Not Evaluated

Okie bean

Dipogon lignosus

Not Evaluated

banana poka

Passiflora tarminiana

Least Concern

tropical reed

Phragmites karka

Least Concern

Indian thorny bamboo

Bambusa bambos

Not Evaluated

Achicoria azul

Launaea intybacea

Not Evaluated

Redflower ragleaf

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Not Evaluated

Blue Corn-lily

Aristea ecklonii

Not Evaluated

Sour Prickle

Opuntia dillenii

Not Evaluated

East indian bristlegrass

Setaria barbata

Not Evaluated

Cogongrass

Imperata cylindrica

Not Evaluated

Sticky snakeroot

Ageratina adenophora

Not Evaluated

Shrubby dillenia

Dillenia suffruticosa

Not Evaluated

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