Costa Rica
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Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
acibara
Agave americana
agróstide blanca
Agrostis gigantea
agróstide común
Agrostis capillaris
cagamuja
Ricinus communis
Venado cola blanca
Odocoileus virginianus
Common Silver Hairgrass
Aira caryophyllea
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
Brown Rat
Rattus norvegicus
Ecoregions
Cocos Island moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Isthmian-Pacific moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Talamancan montane forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Central American dry forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
All Species in Costa Rica
Cottony cushion scale
Icerya purchasi
False stable fly
Muscina stabulans
Bathroom Moth Fly
Clogmia albipunctatus
Pomace fly
Drosophila melanogaster
Ensign wasp
Evania appendigaster
Coffee berry borer
Hypothenemus hampei
Horn fly
Haematobia irritans
Fly
Drosophila simulans
Madeira cockroach
Rhyparobia maderae
Scuttle fly
Megaselia scalaris
Moth fly
Psychoda alternata
pear cone
Conus patricius
Indian House Cricket
Gryllodes sigillatus
Brown twig beetle
Xylosandrus morigerus
Ant
Cardiocondyla obscurior
Common Sheep Sorrel
Rumex acetosella
Prostrate knotweed
Polygonum aviculare
Crisp Pondweed
Potamogeton crispus
Green bristlegrass
Setaria viridis
Broomcorn
Sorghum bicolor
Annual rabbitsfoot grass
Polypogon monspeliensis
Stinkgrass
Eragrostis cilianensis
Bermudagrass
Cynodon dactylon
Creeping Fescue
Festuca rubra
Cantaloupe
Cucumis melo
Carpenter Weed
Prunella vulgaris
Coliseum-Ivy
Cymbalaria muralis
Common Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
Bright-Blue Speedwell
Veronica serpyllifolia
Grey Field-speedwell
Veronica polita
Dudley'S Rush
Juncus tenuis
Common Woodrush
Luzula campestris
Least Hop Clover
Trifolium dubium
Creeping buttercup
Ranunculus repens
Field mustard
Brassica rapa
Bending Bittercress
Cardamine flexuosa
Annual Knawel
Scleranthus annuus
Common catchfly
Silene gallica
Bird'S-Eye Pearlwort
Sagina procumbens
Mat-Grass
Nardus stricta
Little quakinggrass
Briza minor
Common Silver Hairgrass
Aira caryophyllea
Fourleaf manyseed
Polycarpon tetraphyllum
Pink woodsorrel
Oxalis debilis
Asian Wild Raspberry
Rubus ellipticus
Chinese Packing Grass
Microstegium vimineum
Egyptian grass
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Blowball
Taraxacum officinale
cup-and-saucer-vine
Cobaea scandens
Silkoak
Grevillea robusta
Wild sugarcane
Saccharum spontaneum
Devil's horsewhip
Achyranthes aspera
Punktree
Melaleuca quinquenervia
Stickbush
Clerodendrum chinense
White garland-lily
Hedychium coronarium
purpleheart
Tradescantia pallida
River sheoak
Casuarina cunninghamiana
Black wattle
Acacia mangium
African senna
Senna didymobotrya
Buffelgrass
Cenchrus ciliaris
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