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The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic realm (which in turn is part of the Holarctic ). Lying within the temperate region , (north of the equator) the wildlife is not as rich as in the hottest regions, but is nevertheless diverse due to the ...
This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of Caucasus Mountains ), whether resident or as regular migrants .
He placed Europe in the Palaearctic Region (today called the Palearctic realm), divided between the North Europe and Mediterranean subregions. The subregions roughly matched Augustin Pyramus de Candolle 's botanical regions, and were basically an attempt to define areas of strongly related endemism.
Lists of animals by location (10 C, 5 P) B. Animals in Brazil (2 C) Animal breeds by location of origin (7 C) C. Animals in Canada (4 C) Animals in captivity (6 C, 14 P)
Lists of extinct animals by location (3 C) M. Lists of mammals by location (3 C, 1 P) Lists of molluscs by location (6 C, 10 P) R. Lists of reptiles by location (2 C ...
The European bison is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe, and individuals in the past may have been even larger than their modern-day descendants. During late antiquity and the Middle Ages , bison became extinct in much of Europe and Asia , surviving into the 20th century only in northern-central Europe and the northern Caucasus Mountains .
Lists of animals of Europe (5 C, 6 P) A. ... Pages in category "Fauna of Europe" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The continent of Europe comprises a large part of the Palearctic ecozone, with many unique biomes and ecoregions. Biogeographically, Europe is tied closely to Siberia, commonly known as the Euro-Siberian region. The European Environmental Agency (EEA) divides Europe into a total of eleven terrestrial biogeographical regions and seven regional ...