Venezuela
South America · South America
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
Chestnut Long-tongued Bat
Lionycteris spurrelli
Agile Gracile Opossum
Gracilinanus agilis
Alberico's Broad-nosed Bat
Platyrrhinus albericoi
Amazonian Nectomys
Nectomys rattus
Amazon River Dolphin
Inia geoffrensis
American Black-Fish
Globicephala melas
Andean slender mouse opossum
Marmosops impavidus
Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum
Caluromys philander
Ecoregions
Catatumbo moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Cordillera La Costa montane forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Cordillera Oriental montane forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Negro-Branco moist forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Orinoco Delta swamp forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
Rio Negro campinarana
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Neotropic
All Species in Venezuela
Palm weevil
Sitophilus zeamais
Atlantic ghost cat shark
Apristurus laurussonii
Night Shark
Carcharhinus signatus
Caribbean reef shark
Carcharhinus perezii
Daggernose shark
Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus
Bush dog
Speothos venaticus
Rockfish
Myliobatis goodei
Tepui Elaenia
Elaenia olivina
short-finned pilot whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Fraser's dolphin
Lagenodelphis hosei
Longnose Stingray
Hypanus guttatus
Smalleye smooth hound
Mustelus higmani
Florida Smooth-hound
Mustelus norrisi
Eden's whale
Balaenoptera edeni
southern tamandua
Tamandua tetradactyla
giant anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Large-billed Seed-Finch
Sporophila crassirostris
Little spotted cat
Leopardus tigrinus
kinkajou
Potos flavus
collared peccary
Pecari tajacu
Bamboo powderpost beetle
Dinoderus minutus
common opossum
Didelphis marsupialis
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia sima
Common Plume
Emmelina monodactyla
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Aedes albopictus
Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca diadema
Argentine ant
Linepithema humile
nine-banded armadillo
Dasypus novemcinctus
Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
pantropical spotted dolphin
Stenella attenuata
mouflon
Ovis aries
horse
Equus caballus
Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
Sporophila angolensis
Rosette river stingray
Potamotrygon schroederi
Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
Cnemathraupis eximia
Gervais’s Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon europaeus
red howler monkey
Alouatta seniculus
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
Choloepus hoffmanni
jaguar
Panthera onca
Shark
Carcharhinus porosus
Caribbean roughshark
Oxynotus caribbaeus
Scoophead
Sphyrna media
Blue-nosed ray
Myliobatis freminvillei
Sharpsnout stingray
Fontitrygon geijskesi
Lowland Tapir
Tapirus terrestris
Variegated Bristle-Tyrant
Phylloscartes poecilotis
Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant
Phylloscartes ophthalmicus
Lesser Kiskadee
Pitangus lictor
crab-eating raccoon
Procyon cancrivorus
Coffee bean weevil
Araecerus fasciculatus
Striped Acorn Barnacle
Amphibalanus amphitrite
Asian date mussel
Arcuatula senhousia
Johnstone's Robber Frog
Eleutherodactylus johnstonei
lowland paca
Cuniculus paca
Yellow fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti
White-fronted Spider Monkey
Ateles belzebuth
Big Brown Bat
Eptesicus fuscus
Bicolored trailing ant
Monomorium floricola
Ant
Tetramorium simillimum
Central American agouti
Dasyprocta punctata
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