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Dolphins are national animal of Greece although cetacean biodiversity in the Mediterranean is not as diverse as in nations facing outer oceans, and the Aegean Sea Greece's coasts are one of the furthermost basin of the inland sea and even less species regularly inhabit comparing to western basin. [38] [39] Suborder: Mysticeti. Subfamily ...
Greece's rivers are brimming with aquatic wildlife too, with a diverse range of endemic freshwater fishes, around 160 species were listed in 2015. [14] There are also several species of lampreys, notably three species of lamprey endemic to Greece; the Epirus brook lamprey, Greek brook lamprey and Almopaios brook lamprey.
Animal welfare and rights in Greece (2 C) C. Fauna of Crete (1 C, 10 P) E. ... Pages in category "Fauna of Greece" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of ...
This list of the reptiles of Greece is primarily based on the Atlas of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Greece (2020), published under the auspices of the Societas Hellenica Herpetologica, supplemented by the IUCN Red List. [1] [2] Of the 66 (IUCN) or 76 (Atlas) species recognized, 11 are endemic, while 3 are assessed as endangered. [1]: 11–13 [2]
About 8,000 animals have been culled and more than 200,000 tested, mainly in the central Thessaly region where authorities Greece bans moving goats and sheep as 'goat plague' spreads Skip to main ...
According to Plutarch, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, in preparing for her own suicide, tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp (from the Greek word aspis, usually meaning an Egyptian cobra in Ptolemaic Egypt, and not the European asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought ...
The list below contains threatened mammals that dwell in or migrate to any region in Europe, the East Atlantic Ocean, and any nearby islands of the Atlantic Ocean.This includes mammals that are found in the East Atlantic Ocean (Azores), Iceland, the Adriatic Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Black and Caspian Sea, Corsica, Cyprus, Palearctic, Russia, Eurasia, North African Coast, the Mediterranean Sea ...
Stellion, Agama stellio (Greek islands) Family: Gekkonidae (geckos) Kotschy's gecko, Cyrtodactylus kotschyi LC (southern Europe) Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus LC (southern Europe) Family: Lacertidae (wall or true lizards) Subfamily: Lacertinae Tribe: Eremiadini. Snake-eyed lizard, Ophisops elegans (Mediterranean and Central Asia)