Costa Rica
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Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
Agave d'Amérique
Agave americana
agrostis commun
Agrostis capillaris
agrostis géant
Agrostis gigantea
canche caryophyllée
Aira caryophyllea
cerf de Virginie
Odocoileus virginianus
Rat surmulot
Rattus norvegicus
Ricin
Ricinus communis
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
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
Longhorned crazy ant
Paratrechina longicornis
Pantropical mini-ponerine ant
Hypoponera punctatissima
Sweetpotato whitefly
Bemisia tabaci
Common Plume
Emmelina monodactyla
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Aedes albopictus
Little fire ant
Wasmannia auropunctata
Johnstone's Robber Frog
Eleutherodactylus johnstonei
Bicolored trailing ant
Monomorium floricola
Guinea ant
Tetramorium bicarinatum
Citrus leafminer
Phyllocnistis citrella
Southern green stink bug
Nezara viridula
Greenhouse frog
Eleutherodactylus planirostris
Cuban Tree Frog
Osteopilus septentrionalis
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
Coqui frog
Eleutherodactylus coqui
Moth fly
Psychoda alternata
pear cone
Conus patricius
Indian House Cricket
Gryllodes sigillatus
Brown twig beetle
Xylosandrus morigerus
Ant
Cardiocondyla obscurior
Southern sandbur
Cenchrus echinatus
Okinawa Torch
Musa coccinea
Asian Wild Raspberry
Rubus ellipticus
Golden bamboo
Phyllostachys aurea
Cathedral bells
Kalanchoe pinnata
Golden trumpet
Allamanda cathartica
Egyptian grass
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Rose natal grass
Melinis repens
Jaraguagrass
Hyparrhenia rufa
Silkoak
Grevillea robusta
good-luck-plant
Cordyline fruticosa
Black poui
Jacaranda mimosifolia
Coral vine
Antigonon leptopus
Devil's horsewhip
Achyranthes aspera
Alexandrian laurel
Calophyllum inophyllum
Stickbush
Clerodendrum chinense
White garland-lily
Hedychium coronarium
purpleheart
Tradescantia pallida
Cedar of Goa
Cupressus lusitanica
Black wattle
Acacia mangium
African senna
Senna didymobotrya
Pride-of-barbados
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Heartleaf madeiravine
Anredera cordifolia
Antelope Grass
Echinochloa pyramidalis
Brownbeard rice
Oryza rufipogon
Violet crabgrass
Digitaria violascens
African bermudagrass
Cynodon nlemfuensis
Daisy-Chrysanthemum
Leucanthemum maximum
Golden dewdrops
Duranta erecta
Honeyweed
Leonurus japonicus
Christmas candlestick
Leonotis nepetifolia
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