Ecuador
South America · South America
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
Baagh
Panthera tigris
Chestnut Long-tongued Bat
Lionycteris spurrelli
Andean Caenolestid
Caenolestes condorensis
Alberico's Broad-nosed Bat
Platyrrhinus albericoi
Amazon Dwarf Squirrel
Microsciurus flaviventer
Amazon River Dolphin
Inia geoffrensis
Common Silver Hairgrass
Aira caryophyllea
Bushy-tailed Opossum
Glironia venusta
Ecoregions
Eastern Cordillera Real montane forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Napo moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Western Ecuador moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Ecuadorian dry forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Tumbes-Piura dry forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Guayaquil flooded grasslands
Flooded Grasslands & Savannas · Neotropic
All Species in Ecuador
Mediterranean fruit fly
Ceratitis capitata
Post Dwarf Weaver
Erigone atra
Guinea pig
Cavia porcellus
Golden hamster
Mesocricetus auratus
Longhorned crazy ant
Paratrechina longicornis
European brown snail
Cornu aspersum
melon-headed whale
Peponocephala electra
cobweb spiders
Latrodectus mactans
Bush dog
Speothos venaticus
short-finned pilot whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Fraser's dolphin
Lagenodelphis hosei
Eden's whale
Balaenoptera edeni
southern tamandua
Tamandua tetradactyla
giant anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Large-billed Seed-Finch
Sporophila crassirostris
kinkajou
Potos flavus
common opossum
Didelphis marsupialis
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia sima
disc web spiders
Oecobius navus
American mink
Mustela vison
Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca diadema
Little fire ant
Wasmannia auropunctata
Argentine ant
Linepithema humile
nine-banded armadillo
Dasypus novemcinctus
Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
pantropical spotted dolphin
Stenella attenuata
mouflon
Ovis aries
horse
Equus caballus
Brown Bryozoan
Bugula neritina
cobweb spiders
Steatoda grossa
brown-throated three-toed sloth
Bradypus variegatus
Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
Sporophila angolensis
Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
Cnemathraupis eximia
red howler monkey
Alouatta seniculus
Crowned Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca frontalis
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
Choloepus hoffmanni
jaguar
Panthera onca
Lowland Tapir
Tapirus terrestris
Variegated Bristle-Tyrant
Phylloscartes poecilotis
Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant
Phylloscartes ophthalmicus
Lesser Kiskadee
Pitangus lictor
Coopmans's Elaenia
Elaenia brachyptera
Lion
Panthera leo
lowland paca
Cuniculus paca
Yellow fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti
jumping spiders
Hasarius adansoni
White-fronted Spider Monkey
Ateles belzebuth
Big Brown Bat
Eptesicus fuscus
Bicolored trailing ant
Monomorium floricola
Central American agouti
Dasyprocta punctata
Small hive beetle
Aethina tumida
aurochs
Bos taurus
ass
Equus asinus
Citrus leafminer
Phyllocnistis citrella
ocelot
Leopardus pardalis
puma
Puma concolor
Brown Widow
Latrodectus geometricus
Northern tamandua
Tamandua mexicana
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Sporophila funerea
Spectacled bear
Tremarctos ornatus
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