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The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenidae.
The Molina's hog-nosed skunk's native range is throughout mid to southern South America, Chile, Peru, northern Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil. [2] The mammal is therefore associated with temperate regions and open areas, mainly described as the Pampas biome [ 3 ] and preferring to live in open vegetation, shrub ...
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey, which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. Twenty species have been recorded in Uruguay. White-tailed kite, Elanus leucurus.
Birds of Uruguay (2 C, 143 P) F. Fish of Uruguay (75 P) M. Mammals of Uruguay (53 P) R. Reptiles of Uruguay (58 P)
C. Capybara. Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo. Collared tuco-tuco. Common fat-tailed mouse opossum. Common yellow-toothed cavy. Cook's hocicudo. Crab-eating fox. Crab-eating raccoon.
The white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris), known as the timbu and cassaco in northeast Brazil, saruê and sariguê in Bahia, micurê and mucura in northern Brazil [3] and comadreja overa in Argentina, [4] is an opossum species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. [5] It is a terrestrial and, sometimes, arboreal ...
B. Black spine-neck swamp turtle. Boa constrictor. Boiruna maculata. Bothrops alternatus. Broad-snouted caiman.
The crab-eating raccoon, southern raccoon, or South American raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) is a species of raccoon native to marshy and jungle areas of Central and South America (including Trinidad and Tobago). It is found from Costa Rica south through most areas of South America east of the Andes down to northern Argentina and Uruguay. [1]