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Including the mainland and the island groups, Spain has an estimated 60 to 70,000 animal species. Of these, about seven hundred are vertebrates (excluding marine fish) and the remainder are invertebrates. The highest degree of endemism occurs among freshwater fish and in the mountainous areas, the coastal areas, and among the Canary Island ...
(A) Accidental in limited area – a species found regularly in mainland Spain but accidentally in the Canary Islands or the North African enclaves. (E) Endemic – a species found only in Spain, with the location appended (Ex) Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Spain although populations exist elsewhere
The Canary Islands is the only place in Spain where volcanic ... Asia: 23,082: 1.1 China: 9,848 ... on the marine life of the islands. Fish species found in the ...
Order: Rodentia (rodents) Eurasian beavers. Red squirrel. Garden dormouse. Southwestern water vole. Yellow-necked mouse. South American coypu, established in Navarre and Catalonia as a result of escapes from fur farms. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species.
All three land mammal species once endemic to the Balearic Islands, Spain (the Majorcan giant dormouse, the Balearic shrew and the goat-like ruminant Myotragus balearicus) are currently extinct, [1] while those presently found on the archipelago have been introduced voluntarily or accidentally by humans in colonization waves beginning in the Neolithic.
Moreover, species occurring in Cyprus, Canary Islands and Azores are listed here. If geographical range of given European mammal additionally overlaps Turkey, it is noted in some of cases. This checklist does not include species found only in captivity.
Fauna of Asia. The tiger is the largest carnivorous mammal in Asia. [1][2] In our whole Earth and the soil, all of the animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands are considered the fauna of Asia. Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the west between Europe and Asia, the term "fauna of Asia" is somewhat elusive ...
The Spanish sparrow is a rather large sparrow, at 15–16 cm (6–6.5 in) in length, and 22–36 g (0.78–1.27 oz) in weight. It is slightly larger and heavier than house sparrows, and also has a slightly longer and stouter bill. [2] The male is similar to the house sparrow in plumage, but differs in that its underparts are heavily streaked ...