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
Margay
Leopardus wiedii
silky shrew opossum
Caenolestes fuliginosus
spitting spiders
Scytodes fusca
Ecuador Red Brocket
Mazama rufina
Coqui frog
Eleutherodactylus coqui
Velvety free-tailed bat
Molossus molossus
greater grison
Galictis vittata
Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat
Artibeus planirostris
Jelski's Chat-Tyrant
Ochthoeca jelskii
tufted capuchin
Sapajus apella
Tucuxi
Sotalia fluviatilis
Galapagos fur seal
Arctocephalus galapagoensis
South American fur seal
Arctocephalus australis
white-nosed coati
Nasua narica
Derby s Woolly Opossum
Caluromys derbianus
Montane Colilargo
Microryzomys minutus
mountain paca
Cuniculus taczanowskii
Black Myotis
Myotis nigricans
Pale Spear-nosed Bat
Phyllostomus discolor
Highland Yellow-shouldered Bat
Sturnira ludovici
Hairy Yellow-shouldered Bat
Sturnira erythromos
Alpaca
Vicugna pacos
Colombian Crake
Mustelirallus colombianus
Japanese Macaque
Macaca fuscata
Sechuran fox
Lycalopex sechurae
Pygmy Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon peruvianus
Ring-tailed Lemur
Lemur catta
axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
Olinguito
Bassaricyon neblina
Lesser Bulldog Bat
Noctilio albiventris
Greater Sac-winged Bat
Saccopteryx bilineata
Striped Desert Hamster
Phodopus sungorus
black-headed spider monkey
Ateles fusciceps
mantled howler
Alouatta palliata
Brazilian Brown Bat
Eptesicus brasiliensis
Velvety Fruit-eating Bat
Enchisthenes hartii
Bidentate Yellow-shouldered Bat
Sturnira bidens
White-throated Round-eared Bat
Lophostoma silvicola
southern naked-tailed armadillo
Cabassous unicinctus
Meerkat
Suricata suricatta
pacarana
Dinomys branickii
Peters's Ghost-faced Bat
Mormoops megalophylla
Cave cobweb spider
Eidmannella pallida
Yellow-headed Manakin
Xenopipo flavicapilla
greater bulldog bat
Noctilio leporinus
Zeledon's Antbird
Hafferia zeledoni
Lesser Dog-like Bat
Peropteryx macrotis
Short-tailed Sigmodontomys
Sigmodontomys alfari
Narrow-footed Neacomys
Neacomys tenuipes
Four-toed Hedgehog
Atelerix albiventris
Red Bat (known as the Western Red Bat in North America)
Lasiurus blossevillii
Lesser Long-tongued Bat
Choeroniscus minor
Little Big-eyed Bat
Chiroderma trinitatum
Dark fruit-eating bat
Artibeus obscurus
Red Mouse Opossum
Marmosa rubra
Riparian Myotis
Myotis riparius
Spectral Bat
Vampyrum spectrum
MacConnell's Bat
Mesophylla macconnelli
Common Tent-making Bat
Uroderma bilobatum
Greater Spear-nosed Bat
Phyllostomus hastatus
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