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Chile

South America · South America

Total Species
1166
Threatened
90
CR + EN + VU
Population
19116209
Area
756102 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 25
Endangered 27
Vulnerable 38
Near Threatened 50
Least Concern 429
Data Deficient 33
Not Evaluated 513
Extinct 15

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 741
Animalia 372
Fungi 48
Chromista 4
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Chile

Western flower thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Moth

Grapholita molesta

Not Evaluated

Thrips

Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis

Not Evaluated

ribbed grass snail

Vallonia costata

Least Concern

beautiful grass snail

Vallonia pulchella

Vulnerable

Gray Field Slug

Deroceras reticulatum

Least Concern

Bigeye dogfish

Squalus blainville

Data Deficient

house mouse

Mus musculus

Least Concern

Blainvilles dogfish

Squalus mitsukurii

Endangered

Slender lantern shark

Etmopterus pusillus

Least Concern

African clawed frog

Xenopus laevis

Not Evaluated

Smallmouth knifetooth dogfish

Zameus squamulosus

Least Concern

Bentfin devil ray

Mobula thurstoni

Endangered

Long finned mako shark

Isurus paucus

Endangered

wild boar

Sus scrofa

Least Concern

elk

Cervus elaphus

Vulnerable

Freshwater Jellyfish

Craspedacusta sowerbii

Not Evaluated

European fruit lecanium scale

Parthenolecanium corni

Not Evaluated

Galapagos shark

Carcharhinus galapagensis

Least Concern

Hydroid

Bougainvillia muscus

Not Evaluated

Elm Leaf Beetle

Xanthogaleruca luteola

Not Evaluated

Caruana's slug

Deroceras invadens

Not Evaluated

Goldenhaired bark beetle

Hylurgus ligniperda

Data Deficient

blood worm

Lumbricus rubellus

Not Evaluated

alfalfa leaf-cutter bee

Megachile rotundata

Not Evaluated

balsam woolly adelgid

Adelges piceae

Not Evaluated

American mink

Mustela vison

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse slug

Milax gagates

Data Deficient

Argentine ant

Linepithema humile

Not Evaluated

Greenhouse white fly

Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Not Evaluated

tiger shark

Galeocerdo cuvier

Near Threatened

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

sea thread hydroid

Obelia dichotoma

Not Evaluated

horse

Equus caballus

Not Evaluated

Brown Bryozoan

Bugula neritina

Not Evaluated

Woodwasp

Sirex noctilio

Vulnerable

Pacific oyster

Magallana gigas

Not Evaluated

long-neck field slug

Deroceras panormitanum

Least Concern

Brown lantern shark

Etmopterus unicolor

Data Deficient

Lamprey

Geotria australis

Data Deficient

Dumeril's clam worm

Platynereis dumerilii

Not Evaluated

Narrowmouth cat shark

Schroederichthys bivius

Least Concern

Largenose cat shark

Apristurus nasutus

Least Concern

Lollipop cat shark

Cephalurus cephalus

Least Concern

Longnose pygmy shark

Heteroscymnoides marleyi

Least Concern

Humpback smooth hound

Mustelus whitneyi

Critically Endangered

Hawaiian lantern shark

Etmopterus villosus

Least Concern

Black shark

Etmopterus granulosus

Least Concern

Combtooth dogfish

Centroscyllium nigrum

Least Concern

tamarix leafhopper

Opsius stactogalus

Not Evaluated

Vitreous Scallop

Delectopecten vitreus

Vulnerable

Orange-tipped sea squirt

Corella eumyota

Not Evaluated

Pale orache case-bearer

Coleophora versurella

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus

Least Concern

Drone-Bee

Apis mellifera

Not Evaluated

Octagonal-tail worm

Dendrobaena octaedra

Not Evaluated

Cypress aphid

Cinara cupressi

Not Evaluated

glassy plume hydroid

Plumularia setacea

Not Evaluated

Pygmy shark

Euprotomicrus bispinatus

Least Concern

Taillight shark

Euprotomicroides zantedeschia

Least Concern

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