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The fauna of Italy comprises all the animal species inhabiting the territory of the Italian Republic and its surrounding waters. Italy has the highest level of faunal biodiversity in Europe, with over 57,000 species recorded, representing more than a third of all European fauna. [4] This is due to various factors.
Order: Rodentia (rodents) Alpine marmot. Common vole. Yellow-necked mouse. Eurasian harvest mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing. Suborder: Hystricognathi.
M. List of mammals of Italy. Marginated tortoise. Marine life of the Strait of Messina. Marsican brown bear. Microcotyle lichiae.
Vipera (Rhinaspis) ammodytes – horned viper LC. Vipera (Rhinaspis) aspis – asp viper LC. Vipera (Pelias) berus – European adder LC. Vipera (Acridophaga) ursinii – Orsini's viper VU. Vipera walser - Walser's viper. Zamenis lineatus – Italian Aesculapian snake DD (endemic to Italy) Zamenis longissimus – Aesculapian snake LC.
The Italian sparrow is the national bird of Italy.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Italy.The avifauna of Italy included a total of 577 species recorded in the wild by March 2024, according to Avibase.
The Italian wolf (Canis lupus italicus[3][4] or Canis lupus lupus[5]), also known as the Apennine wolf, [6][7] is a subspecies of the grey wolf native to the Italian Peninsula. It inhabits the Apennine Mountains and the Western Alps, though it is undergoing expansion towards the north and east. As of 2022 the wolf population within Italy is ...
A broad view of the National Park of Abruzzo. The Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos, [3] formerly Ursus arctos marsicanus), also known as the Apennine brown bear, and orso bruno marsicano in Italian, is a critically endangered [4] population of the Eurasian brown bear, with a range restricted to the Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, and the surrounding region in Italy.
The Italian wolf, the national animal of Italy. The fauna of Italy includes 4,777 endemic animal species, [145] which include the Sardinian long-eared bat, Sardinian red deer, spectacled salamander, brown cave salamander, Italian newt, Italian frog, Apennine yellow-bellied toad, Italian wall lizard and Sicilian pond turtle.