Ecuador
South America · South America
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
aloé-dos-cem-anos
Agave americana
ananaí
Amazonetta brasiliensis
andorinhão-serrano
Aeronautes montivagus
Anta
Tapirus terrestris
araçari-de-bico-preto
Andigena nigrirostris
araracanga
Ara macao
arara-canindé
Ara ararauna
arara-vermelha
Ara chloropterus
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
Choco Warbler
Myiothlypis chlorophrys
Zeledon's Antbird
Myrmeciza zeledoni
Ash-colored Tapaculo
Myornis senilis
Gray-headed Antbird
Myrmeciza griseiceps
Lunulated Antbird
Gymnopithys lunulatus
Spillmann's Tapaculo
Scytalopus spillmanni
White-crowned Tapaculo / Northern White-crowned Tapaculo
Scytalopus atratus
White-browed Spinetail
Hellmayrea gularis
Rusty-winged Barbtail
Premnornis guttuliger
Lesser Cachalot
Kogia breviceps
Cerf De Virginie
Odocoileus virginianus
potato aphid
Macrosiphum euphorbiae
Blainville’s Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon densirostris
Fire ant
Solenopsis geminata
domestic goat
Capra hircus
Mongolian gerbil
Meriones unguiculatus
rough-toothed dolphin
Steno bredanensis
pygmy killer whale
Feresa attenuata
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
short-finned pilot whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Fraser's dolphin
Lagenodelphis hosei
Eden's whale
Balaenoptera edeni
Pacific Antwren
Myrmotherula pacifica
Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
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
Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
pantropical spotted dolphin
Stenella attenuata
mouflon
Ovis aries
horse
Equus caballus
Brown Bryozoan
Bugula neritina
cobweb spiders
Steatoda grossa
Olive Finch
Arremon castaneiceps
Orange-billed Sparrow
Arremon aurantiirostris
Black-chested Mountain-Tanager
Cnemathraupis eximia
Dusky Chlorospingus
Chlorospingus semifuscus
Crowned Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca frontalis
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
Choloepus hoffmanni
Variegated Bristle-Tyrant
Phylloscartes poecilotis
Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant
Phylloscartes ophthalmicus
Lesser Kiskadee
Pitangus lictor
Coopmans's Elaenia
Elaenia brachyptera
Band-tailed Seedeater
Catamenia analis
Dowdy Plume
Stenoptilia zophodactylus
lowland paca
Cuniculus paca
Yellow fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti
jumping spiders
Hasarius adansoni
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