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Kenya

Africa · Eastern Africa

Total Species
230
Threatened
24
CR + EN + VU
Population
53 771 300
Area
580 367 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 5
Endangered 7
Vulnerable 12
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 31
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 36
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 176
Animalia 54

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Kenya

Pino Macho

Pinus caribaea

Least Concern

piñón

Jatropha curcas

Not Evaluated

piñón negro

Jatropha gossypiifolia

Not Evaluated

pita floja

Furcraea foetida

Not Evaluated

sabugo

Sambucus nigra

Least Concern

sarmiento japonés

Hovenia dulcis

Least Concern

sisal

Agave sisalana

Not Evaluated

Camellia sinensis

Data Deficient

teca

Tectona grandis

Not Evaluated

Tejedor de Clarke

Ploceus golandi

Endangered

Trupillo

Prosopis juliflora

Not Evaluated

Uvita

Syzygium cumini

Least Concern

verbena

Verbena bonariensis

Not Evaluated

verbena azul

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Least Concern

Viviu

Ipomoea alba

Least Concern

zacate limón

Cymbopogon nardus

Not Evaluated

Zorzal de los Taita

Turdus helleri

Critically Endangered

zurrón de pastor

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Not Evaluated

purple witchweed

Striga hermonthica

Not Evaluated

plains zebra

Equus quagga

Near Threatened

Nile Crocodile

Crocodylus niloticus

Least Concern

Asian Lady Beetle

Harmonia axyridis

Not Evaluated

Red Swamp Crayfish

Procambarus clarkii

Not Evaluated

Giant Freshwater Prawn

Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Least Concern

Western flower thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Ridge-saddled carpenter bee

Heriades truncorum

Least Concern

Leafminer fly

Liriomyza trifolii

Not Evaluated

Tomato russet mite

Aculops lycopersici

Not Evaluated

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Cypress aphid

Cinara cupressi

Not Evaluated

Brachionid rotifer

Brachionus forficula

Not Evaluated

Hildegarde's Tomb Bat

Taphozous hildegardeae

Vulnerable

Russian wheat aphid

Diuraphis noxia

Not Evaluated

Lesser hamster-rat, Long-tailed pouched rat

Beamys hindei

Least Concern

Abalone

Haliotis unilateralis

Least Concern

Black and rufous elephant shrew/sengi

Rhynchocyon petersi

Vulnerable

Aders' duiker

Cephalophus adersi

Critically Endangered

Vermiculated Tree Frog

Leptopelis vermiculatus

Vulnerable

Red bush squirrel

Paraxerus palliatus

Least Concern

Golden-rumped elephant shrew

Rhynchocyon chrysopygus

Endangered

East African little collared fruit bat

Myonycteris relicta

Vulnerable

Zanzibar Puddle Frog

Phrynobatrachus ungujae

Endangered

Shimba Hills reed frog

Hyperolius rubrovermiculatus

Endangered

Shimba Hills banana frog

Afrixalus sylvaticus

Endangered

Taita Shrew

Suncus aequatorius

Critically Endangered

Taita Caecilian

Boulengerula taitana

Least Concern

Sagalla Caecilian

Boulengerula niedeni

Critically Endangered

Indian Ocean Fineliner

Teinobasis alluaudi

Vulnerable

Green ash, Red ash

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Not Evaluated

Darnel ryegrass

Lolium temulentum

Critically Endangered

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Latin American fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

Not Evaluated

Pickerel-Weed

Pontederia cordata

Not Evaluated

Parrotfeather

Myriophyllum aquaticum

Not Evaluated

Australian redcedar

Toona ciliata

Least Concern

Balloon vine

Cardiospermum grandiflorum

Not Evaluated

Mountain ebony

Bauhinia variegata

Not Evaluated

Kariba weed

Salvinia molesta

Not Evaluated

Clavel De Muerto

Tithonia rotundifolia

Not Evaluated

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