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Venezuela

South America · South America

Total Species
2391
Threatened
3
CR + EN + VU
Population
28 435 943
Area
916 445 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 1
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 1
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 2170
Plantae 217
Bacteria 2
Chromista 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Venezuela

Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus planirostris

Least Concern

silky shrew opossum

Caenolestes fuliginosus

Near Threatened

Dahlia

Dahlia pinnata

Not Evaluated

Red-tailed Squirrel

Sciurus granatensis

Least Concern

capybara

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

Least Concern

Andean White-eared Opossum

Didelphis pernigra

Least Concern

Brachionid rotifer

Brachionus forficula

Not Evaluated

mining scale

Howardia biclavis

Not Evaluated

Clover Dodder

Cuscuta epithymum

Endangered

Chestnut Short-tailed Bat

Carollia castanea

Least Concern

Salvin's Big-eyed Bat

Chiroderma salvini

Least Concern

American legskate

Anacanthobatis americana

Not Evaluated

Bending Bittercress

Cardamine flexuosa

Not Evaluated

Common Apple Snail

Pomacea bridgesii

Least Concern

Bryozoan

Watersipora subtorquata

Not Evaluated

Great Fruit-eating Bat

Artibeus lituratus

Least Concern

Silky Short-tailed Bat

Carollia brevicaudum

Least Concern

Seba's Short-tailed Bat

Carollia perspicillata

Least Concern

common vampire bat

Desmodus rotundus

Least Concern

Cottony cushion scale

Icerya purchasi

Not Evaluated

American Egret

Ardea alba

Least Concern

Honey bee mite

Varroa destructor

Not Evaluated

Bean weevil

Acanthoscelides obtectus

Not Evaluated

Angoumois grain moth

Sitotroga cerealella

Not Evaluated

Confused flour beetle

Tribolium confusum

Least Concern

Lesser cowpea weevil

Callosobruchus chinensis

Not Evaluated

Southern cowpea weevil

Callosobruchus maculatus

Not Evaluated

Fire ant

Solenopsis geminata

Not Evaluated

domestic goat

Capra hircus

Not Evaluated

Greater Wax Moth

Galleria mellonella

Least Concern

Granary weevil

Sitophilus granarius

Not Evaluated

Cigarette beetle

Lasioderma serricorne

Not Evaluated

Nepal Knotweed

Persicaria nepalensis

Not Evaluated

Pinkhead smartweed

Persicaria capitata

Not Evaluated

Golden Freshwater Clam

Corbicula fluminea

Not Evaluated

Waterthyme

Hydrilla verticillata

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean fruit fly

Ceratitis capitata

Not Evaluated

green peach aphid

Myzus persicae

Not Evaluated

Dusky Leaftosser

Sclerurus obscurior

Least Concern

Red flour beetle

Tribolium castaneum

Least Concern

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Rice moth

Corcyra cephalonica

Not Evaluated

Thrips

Thrips palmi

Not Evaluated

Cockscomb

Celosia argentea

Not Evaluated

Silkoak

Grevillea robusta

Not Evaluated

Pacific cupped oyster

Crassostrea rhizophorae

Near Threatened

cow-itch

Mucuna pruriens

Not Evaluated

Conrad's False Mussel

Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Not Evaluated

Giant Freshwater Prawn

Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Least Concern

Khapra beetle

Trogoderma granarium

Not Evaluated

Ant

Tetramorium simillimum

Not Evaluated

Bicolored trailing ant

Monomorium floricola

Not Evaluated

Swollen fingergrass

Chloris barbata

Not Evaluated

South American royal palm

Roystonea oleracea

Near Threatened

Indian Meal Moth

Plodia interpunctella

Not Evaluated

Strawberry guava

Psidium cattleianum

Not Evaluated

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Not Evaluated

Jio

Commelina benghalensis

Least Concern

Green wattle

Acacia decurrens

Least Concern

Java-bean

Senna obtusifolia

Least Concern

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