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Venezuela

South America · South America

Total Species
2391
Threatened
237
CR + EN + VU
Population
28,435,943
Area
916,445 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 45
Endangered 80
Vulnerable 112
Near Threatened 114
Least Concern 1690
Data Deficient 107
Not Evaluated 188
Extinct 4

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 2170
Plantae 217
Chromista 2
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Venezuela

Angel Shark

Squatina dumeril

Least Concern

pygmy killer whale

Feresa attenuata

Data Deficient

Cigarette beetle

Lasioderma serricorne

Not Evaluated

Golden Freshwater Clam

Corbicula fluminea

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean fruit fly

Ceratitis capitata

Not Evaluated

green peach aphid

Myzus persicae

Not Evaluated

Red flour beetle

Tribolium castaneum

Least Concern

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Pavement ant

Tetramorium caespitum

Least Concern

Sweetpotato whitefly

Bemisia tabaci

Not Evaluated

European brown snail

Cornu aspersum

Not Evaluated

melon-headed whale

Peponocephala electra

Least Concern

Conrad's False Mussel

Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Not Evaluated

Khapra beetle

Trogoderma granarium

Not Evaluated

Indian Meal Moth

Plodia interpunctella

Not Evaluated

Almond moth

Cadra cautella

Not Evaluated

Palm weevil

Sitophilus zeamais

Not Evaluated

Atlantic ghost cat shark

Apristurus laurussonii

Least Concern

Night Shark

Carcharhinus signatus

Endangered

Caribbean reef shark

Carcharhinus perezii

Endangered

Bush dog

Speothos venaticus

Near Threatened

Rockfish

Myliobatis goodei

Vulnerable

Tepui Elaenia

Elaenia olivina

Least Concern

short-finned pilot whale

Globicephala macrorhynchus

Data Deficient

Fraser's dolphin

Lagenodelphis hosei

Least Concern

Florida Smooth-hound

Mustelus norrisi

Near Threatened

Eden's whale

Balaenoptera edeni

Data Deficient

southern tamandua

Tamandua tetradactyla

Least Concern

giant anteater

Myrmecophaga tridactyla

Vulnerable

Large-billed Seed-Finch

Sporophila crassirostris

Least Concern

Little spotted cat

Leopardus tigrinus

Vulnerable

kinkajou

Potos flavus

Least Concern

collared peccary

Pecari tajacu

Least Concern

Bamboo powderpost beetle

Dinoderus minutus

Not Evaluated

common opossum

Didelphis marsupialis

Least Concern

dwarf sperm whale

Kogia sima

Data Deficient

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Asian Tiger Mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Not Evaluated

Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca diadema

Least Concern

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

nine-banded armadillo

Dasypus novemcinctus

Least Concern

Spinner Dolphin

Stenella longirostris

Data Deficient

pantropical spotted dolphin

Stenella attenuata

Least Concern

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

horse

Equus caballus

Not Evaluated

Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch

Sporophila angolensis

Least Concern

Rosette river stingray

Potamotrygon schroederi

Data Deficient

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager

Cnemathraupis eximia

Least Concern

Gervais’s Beaked Whale

Mesoplodon europaeus

Data Deficient

red howler monkey

Alouatta seniculus

Least Concern

Hoffmann's two-toed sloth

Choloepus hoffmanni

Least Concern

jaguar

Panthera onca

Near Threatened

Shark

Carcharhinus porosus

Critically Endangered

Caribbean roughshark

Oxynotus caribbaeus

Least Concern

Scoophead

Sphyrna media

Critically Endangered

Blue-nosed ray

Myliobatis freminvillei

Vulnerable

sperm whale

Physeter macrocephalus

Vulnerable

Lowland Tapir

Tapirus terrestris

Vulnerable

Variegated Bristle-Tyrant

Phylloscartes poecilotis

Least Concern

Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant

Phylloscartes ophthalmicus

Least Concern

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