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Ecuador

South America · South America

Total Species
2522
Threatened
66
CR + EN + VU
Population
17,643,060
Area
276,841 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 8
Endangered 19
Vulnerable 39
Near Threatened 34
Least Concern 401
Data Deficient 52
Not Evaluated 350
Extinct 11

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 2085
Plantae 435
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Ecuador

Ashy Storm-Petrel

Oceanodroma homochroa

Not Evaluated

White-bellied Spinetail

Synallaxis propinqua

Least Concern

Pale-mandibled Aracari

Pteroglossus erythropygius

Least Concern

crab-eating fox

Cerdocyon thous

Least Concern

Lesser Cachalot

Kogia breviceps

Data Deficient

Cerf De Virginie

Odocoileus virginianus

Least Concern

potato aphid

Macrosiphum euphorbiae

Not Evaluated

Blainville’s Beaked Whale

Mesoplodon densirostris

Data Deficient

Fire ant

Solenopsis geminata

Not Evaluated

domestic goat

Capra hircus

Not Evaluated

Mongolian gerbil

Meriones unguiculatus

Not Evaluated

rough-toothed dolphin

Steno bredanensis

Least Concern

Duida Woodcreeper

Lepidocolaptes duidae

Least Concern

pygmy killer whale

Feresa attenuata

Data Deficient

Mediterranean fruit fly

Ceratitis capitata

Not Evaluated

Post Dwarf Weaver

Erigone atra

Least Concern

Guinea pig

Cavia porcellus

Least Concern

Golden hamster

Mesocricetus auratus

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

European brown snail

Cornu aspersum

Not Evaluated

melon-headed whale

Peponocephala electra

Least Concern

cobweb spiders

Latrodectus mactans

Not Evaluated

Bush dog

Speothos venaticus

Near Threatened

short-finned pilot whale

Globicephala macrorhynchus

Data Deficient

Fraser's dolphin

Lagenodelphis hosei

Least Concern

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

common opossum

Didelphis marsupialis

Least Concern

dwarf sperm whale

Kogia sima

Data Deficient

disc web spiders

Oecobius navus

Least Concern

American mink

Mustela vison

Not Evaluated

Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca diadema

Least Concern

Little fire ant

Wasmannia auropunctata

Not Evaluated

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

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

cobweb spiders

Steatoda grossa

Least Concern

brown-throated three-toed sloth

Bradypus variegatus

Least Concern

Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch

Sporophila angolensis

Least Concern

Black-chested Mountain-Tanager

Cnemathraupis eximia

Least Concern

red howler monkey

Alouatta seniculus

Least Concern

Crowned Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca frontalis

Least Concern

Hoffmann's two-toed sloth

Choloepus hoffmanni

Least Concern

jaguar

Panthera onca

Near Threatened

Lowland Tapir

Tapirus terrestris

Vulnerable

Variegated Bristle-Tyrant

Phylloscartes poecilotis

Least Concern

Marble-faced Bristle-Tyrant

Phylloscartes ophthalmicus

Least Concern

Lesser Kiskadee

Pitangus lictor

Least Concern

Coopmans's Elaenia

Elaenia brachyptera

Least Concern

Lion

Panthera leo

Vulnerable

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

lowland paca

Cuniculus paca

Least Concern

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