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Chile

South America · South America

Total Species
1166
Threatened
81
CR + EN + VU
Population
19 116 209
Area
756 102 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 22
Endangered 22
Vulnerable 37
Near Threatened 46
Least Concern 417
Data Deficient 24
Not Evaluated 491
Extinct 15

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 741
Animalia 372
Fungi 48
Chromista 4
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Chile

Pacific oyster

Magallana gigas

Not Evaluated

Beardless rabbitsfoot grass

Polypogon viridis

Not Evaluated

Woodwasp

Sirex noctilio

Vulnerable

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

Poverty brome

Bromus sterilis

Least Concern

Bristly dogstail grass

Cynosurus echinatus

Not Evaluated

Big quakinggrass

Briza maxima

Not Evaluated

Little quakinggrass

Briza minor

Not Evaluated

Common heathgrass

Danthonia decumbens

Near Threatened

Dense Silky-bent

Apera interrupta

Near Threatened

Common Silver Hairgrass

Aira caryophyllea

Endangered

Bastard Scotch Thistle

Carduus nutans

Near Threatened

horse

Equus caballus

Not Evaluated

Latin American fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

Not Evaluated

sea thread hydroid

Obelia dichotoma

Not Evaluated

Yellow Star-thistle

Centaurea solstitialis

Not Evaluated

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Yellow Hawkweed

Tolpis barbata

Not Evaluated

Clammy Sowthistle

Sonchus tenerrimus

Not Evaluated

milk snail

Otala lactea

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse white fly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Not Evaluated

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse slug

Milax gagates

Data Deficient

Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum capillus-veneris

Least Concern

Wild clary

Salvia verbenaca

Not Evaluated

American mink

Mustela vison

Not Evaluated

balsam woolly adelgid

Adelges piceae

Not Evaluated

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum

Not Evaluated

Night-scented Stock

Matthiola longipetala

Not Evaluated

London rocket

Sisymbrium irio

Not Evaluated

Beanpodded Mustard

Chorispora tenella

Not Evaluated

alfalfa leaf-cutter bee

Megachile rotundata

Not Evaluated

Annual pearlwort

Sagina apetala

Least Concern

proliferous pink

Petrorhagia prolifera

Near Threatened

Sticky chickweed

Cerastium glomeratum

Least Concern

Fourleaf manyseed

Polycarpon tetraphyllum

Not Evaluated

Centaury

Centaurium erythraea

Least Concern

Wild parsnip

Pastinaca sativa

Least Concern

blood worm

Lumbricus rubellus

Not Evaluated

Briar Rose

Rosa rubiginosa

Least Concern

Iceland-Purslane

Koenigia islandica

Near Threatened

Goldenhaired bark beetle

Hylurgus ligniperda

Data Deficient

Hare's-tail

Lagurus ovatus

Not Evaluated

Awned Canary-grass

Phalaris paradoxa

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean Hair-grass

Rostraria cristata

Not Evaluated

Glaucantha Bluegrass

Poa glauca

Least Concern

Mediterranean brome

Bromus lanceolatus

Not Evaluated

Threespike goosegrass

Eleusine tristachya

Not Evaluated

Freshwater Jellyfish

Craspedacusta sowerbii

Not Evaluated

European fruit lecanium scale

Parthenolecanium corni

Not Evaluated

hyssop loosestrife

Lythrum hyssopifolia

Not Evaluated

Corn Mignonette

Reseda phyteuma

Not Evaluated

Glaucous Goosefoot

Oxybasis glauca

Least Concern

Avian goosefoot

Chenopodium hircinum

Not Evaluated

Chilean evening primrose

Oenothera stricta

Not Evaluated

Hydroid

Bougainvillia muscus

Not Evaluated

Elm Leaf Beetle

Xanthogaleruca luteola

Not Evaluated

Wall Bedstraw

Galium parisiense

Not Evaluated

rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

Galium tricornutum

Critically Endangered

Germander speedwell

Veronica chamaedrys

Least Concern

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