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Mexico

North America · Central America

Total Species
1109
Threatened
245
CR + EN + VU
Population
128,932,753
Area
1,964,375 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 84
Endangered 101
Vulnerable 60
Near Threatened 38
Least Concern 311
Data Deficient 10
Not Evaluated 485
Extinct 12

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 547
Plantae 506
Chromista 51
Bacteria 3
Fungi 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Mexico

giant timber bamboo

Bambusa oldhamii

Not Evaluated

Sacred bamboo

Nandina domestica

Not Evaluated

Sea fig

Carpobrotus chilensis

Not Evaluated

Pinewoods fingergrass

Eustachys petraea

Not Evaluated

Broadleaved bristlegrass

Setaria palmifolia

Not Evaluated

Kangaroo grass

Themeda quadrivalvis

Not Evaluated

East indian crabgrass

Digitaria setigera

Not Evaluated

Kleberg's bluestem

Dichanthium annulatum

Not Evaluated

Bahia lovegrass

Eragrostis bahiensis

Not Evaluated

Larkdaisy

Centratherum punctatum

Not Evaluated

Little ironweed

Cyanthillium cinereum

Not Evaluated

Tropical Mexican clover

Richardia brasiliensis

Not Evaluated

yellow thatching grass

Hyperthelia dissoluta

Not Evaluated

poverty sumpweed

Iva axillaris

Not Evaluated

blackseed crabgrass

Digitaria ternata

Not Evaluated

African lovegrass

Eragrostis echinochloidea

Not Evaluated

Small carpgrass

Arthraxon hispidus

Not Evaluated

leather-flower

Clematis viorna

Not Evaluated

spread yellow cress

Rorippa sinuata

Not Evaluated

cut-leaved tansy mustard

Descurainia incisa

Not Evaluated

Low starbur

Acanthospermum humile

Not Evaluated

Geraldton carnation weed

Euphorbia terracina

Not Evaluated

Centipede grass

Eremochloa ophiuroides

Not Evaluated

Arabian schismus

Schismus arabicus

Not Evaluated

Treasureflower

Gazania linearis

Not Evaluated

White Pine Blister Rust

Cronartium ribicola

Not Evaluated

Dutch Elm Disease

Ophiostoma ulmi

Not Evaluated

japweed

Sargassum muticum

Not Evaluated

Asian kelp

Undaria pinnatifida

Not Evaluated

Diatom

Coscinodiscus wailesii

Not Evaluated

Phantom Dinoflagellate

Pfiesteria piscicida

Not Evaluated

Root rot

Phytophthora cinnamomi

Not Evaluated

Devil weed

Sargassum horneri

Not Evaluated

Cladostephus spongiosus

Least Concern

Lingulodinium polyedra

Not Evaluated

Heterosigma akashiwo

Not Evaluated

Fibrocapsa japonica

Not Evaluated

Chattonella marina

Not Evaluated

Pseudochattonella verruculosa

Not Evaluated

Prorocentrum triestinum

Not Evaluated

Prorocentrum cordatum

Not Evaluated

Pseudo-nitzschia pungens

Not Evaluated

Pseudo-nitzschia seriata

Not Evaluated

Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima

Not Evaluated

Alexandrium leei

Not Evaluated

Alexandrium minutum

Not Evaluated

Alexandrium tamarense

Not Evaluated

Dinophysis tripos

Not Evaluated

Dinophysis caudata

Not Evaluated

Dinophysis acuminata

Not Evaluated

Karenia mikimotoi

Not Evaluated

Gymnodinium catenatum

Not Evaluated

Phalacroma rotundatum

Not Evaluated

Spatulodinium pseudonoctiluca

Not Evaluated

Heterocapsa rotundata

Not Evaluated

Chaetoceros didymus

Not Evaluated

Prorocentrum lima

Not Evaluated

Alexandrium ostenfeldii

Not Evaluated

Dinophysis fortii

Not Evaluated

Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima

Not Evaluated

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