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Topographic map of Greece. The wildlife of Greece includes the diverse flora, fauna, and funga of Greece, a country in southern Europe.The country is mostly mountainous with a very long, convoluted coastline, consisting of peninsulas and many islands.
This category includes the endemic and native plants of Greece.. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes Crete and the eastern Aegean Islands of the Dodecanese, Antipsara, Chios, Lesbos and Psara.
Endemic fauna of Greece (2 C, 155 P) I. Individual animals in Greece (2 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Greece" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 ...
Fauna of Greece may refer to: List of birds of Greece; List of mammals of Greece; See also. Outline of Greece This page was last edited on 22 May 2024, at 14: ...
Fauna comes from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns.All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and panis is the Modern Greek equivalent of fauna (πανίς or rather πανίδα).
Crete's long isolation from the mainland made its fauna distinct. Dwarf elephants (Palaeoloxodon chaniensis and P. creutzburgi), the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus (Hippopotamus creutzburgi), Cretan dwarf mammoth (Mammuthus creticus), and Cretan dwarf megacerine (Candiacervus cretensis), a tiny deer, lived on Crete until the end of the Pleistocene ...
An electronic Flora is an online resource which provides descriptions of the associated plants, often also providing identification keys, or partial identification keys, to the plants described. Some Floras point to the literature associated with the plants of the region (flora Malesiana), others seek to show the plants of a region using images ...
This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 115 mammal species occurring in Greece.Two of them are endangered, twelve are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: