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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 ...
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.
Iberian wolf. The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus, [2][3][1][4] or Canis lupus lupus, [5] Spanish and Portuguese: Lobo ibérico), [6] is a subspecies of grey wolf. It inhabits the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, which includes northwestern Spain and northern Portugal. It is home to 2,200-2,700 wolves which have been isolated from mixing ...
Iberian ibex. The Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica), also known as the Spanish ibex, Spanish wild goat and Iberian wild goat, is a species of ibex endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. [3] Four subspecies have been described; two are now extinct. The Portuguese ibex became extinct in 1892, and the Pyrenean ibex became extinct in 2000.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Canary Islands, Spain. [1] Since the Osorian shrew (Crocidura osorio) was proven to be actually a population of introduced European greater white-toothed shrew (C. russula) [2] the Canarian shrew, C. canariensis is believed to be the only surviving native terrestrial mammal of the archipelago, every other species now present having been ...
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.
His works consisting of animals are created to highlight the destruction of species by waste caused by humans. [86] One of his public sculptures is a huge Iberian lynx in the Parque das Nações, Lisbon, Portugal, made for the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth in 2019 and Youth Forum Lisboa+21. [87]
List of reptiles of Spain. This is a list of all reptiles living in Spain, both in the Iberian Peninsula and other territories such as Ceuta, Melilla, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands (including marine reptiles that can be found on its shores). Both native and introduced species are included.