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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Guam. There are fifteen mammal species in and around Guam, of which two are endangered and one is considered to be extinct. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Pages in category "Fauna of Guam" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ' List of birds of Guam;
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Guam. The avifauna of Guam includes a total of 146 species as of August 2021, according to Bird Checklists of the World . [ 1 ] Of them, eight have been introduced by humans and 32 are rare or accidental . 3 species are endemic , of which one is extinct and two are extinct in the wild though their ...
A new tally after taxonomic revisions and the establishment of a population of Guam rail on Cocos Island, [16] indicates there are now 5 of 16 native terrestrial (non-migratory) birds that remain in the wild on Guam: the Micronesian starling, [17] yellow bittern [18] (not endemic), and three endangered birds (Guam rail, Mariana common moorhen ...
Several other native species exist in precariously small numbers, and their future on Guam is perilous. Most native forest species, including the Guam rail, were virtually extinct when they were listed as threatened or endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1984. Appreciable losses of the Guam rail was not evident until the mid-1960s.
In biology, evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization , from kingdoms to species , and individual organisms and molecules , such as DNA and proteins .
The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), called sihek in Chamorro, [2] is a species of kingfisher from the United States Territory of Guam. It is restricted to a captive breeding program following its extinction in the wild due primarily to predation by the introduced brown tree snake .
Scorpaenodes guamensis was first formally described in 1824 as Scorpaena guamensis by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard with the type locality given as Guam. [3] In 1857 Pieter Bleeker described a new genus, Scorpaenodes, with Scorpaena polylepsis, a species he had described in 1851, as its type species by ...