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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

Werner's Toad

Rhaebo nasicus

Least Concern

Magdalena Valley Caecilian

Caecilia subnigricans

Least Concern

Yellow-spotted Caecilian

Caecilia flavopunctata

Data Deficient

Little White-shouldered Bat

Ametrida centurio

Least Concern

Venezuelan Lowland Rabbit

Sylvilagus varynaensis

Data Deficient

Pastaza river caecilian

Potamotyphlus kaupii

Least Concern

Upper Amazon Caecilian

Nectocaecilia petersii

Least Concern

Cayenne Caecilian

Typhlonectes compressicauda

Least Concern

solitary disk coral

Scolymia wellsii

Data Deficient

Orinoco Agouti

Dasyprocta guamara

Near Threatened

Bladed Box Fire Coral

Millepora striata

Endangered

Three-spot Slipper Lobster

Scyllarides delfosi

Data Deficient

Frosted Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

Sphiggurus pruinosus

Data Deficient

Black-tailed Hairy Dwarf Porcupine

Sphiggurus melanurus

Least Concern

Carriker’s Speckled Tree-rat

Pattonomys carrikeri

Data Deficient

Yellow Speckled Tree-rat

Pattonomys flavidus

Data Deficient

Orinocan Speckled Tree-rat

Pattonomys punctatus

Data Deficient

Greedy Olalla Rat

Olallamys edax

Data Deficient

Brazilian spiny tree-rat

Makalata didelphoides

Least Concern

Guyanan spiny rat

Proechimys hoplomyoides

Data Deficient

Guyenne Spiny-rat

Proechimys guyannensis

Least Concern

Gray-footed Spiny-rat

Proechimys poliopus

Vulnerable

Sucre Spiny-rat

Proechimys urichi

Least Concern

Trinidad spiny rat

Proechimys trinitatis

Data Deficient

Spiny Spider Crab

Maguimithrax spinosissimus

Data Deficient

Paraguana Common Mustached Bat

Pteronotus paraguanensis

Endangered

Castor

Ricinus communis

Not Evaluated

Barbary fig

Opuntia ficus-indica

Not Evaluated

Barbados nut

Jatropha curcas

Not Evaluated

Nutgrass

Cyperus rotundus

Least Concern

Waterthyme

Hydrilla verticillata

Not Evaluated

Jaraguagrass

Hyparrhenia rufa

Least Concern

cow-itch

Mucuna pruriens

Not Evaluated

Swollen fingergrass

Chloris barbata

Not Evaluated

River sheoak

Casuarina cunninghamiana

Least Concern

Southern Cut Grass

Leersia hexandra

Not Evaluated

Violet crabgrass

Digitaria violascens

Not Evaluated

Devil's backbone

Kalanchoe daigremontiana

Not Evaluated

Itchgrass

Rottboellia cochinchinensis

Not Evaluated

Mule Grass

Bouteloua americana

Not Evaluated

Fewflower Vochysia

Vochysia pauciflora

Endangered

Wurdack Qualea

Qualea wurdackii

Least Concern

Coastal Pleurothyrium

Pleurothyrium costanense

Least Concern

Rustytwig Nectandra

Nectandra ruforamula

Endangered

Golden Nectandra

Nectandra aurea

Vulnerable

Laurel Mapurito

Nectandra truxillensis

Vulnerable

Tepuí Graytwig

Schoepfia tepuiensis

Least Concern

Silvery Coussapoa

Coussapoa argentea

Least Concern

Sarisariñama Tepuianthus

Tepuianthus sarisarinamensis

Least Concern

Ptaritepui Resintree

Protium ptarianum

Least Concern

Root rot

Phytophthora cinnamomi

Not Evaluated

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