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With its varied topography and habitats, Greece has a rich bird fauna. It is a meeting point for birds of three continents, the southern limit for some species and the northern limit for others. Beside the resident bird populations, many migratory species visit the country as they move seasonally between their breeding grounds and their ...
This category includes the endemic and native plants of Greece.. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes Crete and the eastern Aegean Islands of the Dodecanese, Antipsara, Chios, Lesbos and Psara.
Endemic fauna of Greece (2 C, 155 P) I. Individual animals in Greece (2 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Greece" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 ...
Fauna of Greece may refer to: List of birds of Greece; List of mammals of Greece; List of reptiles of Greece; List of amphibians of Greece; See also. Outline of Greece
This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 115 mammal species occurring in Greece.Two of them are endangered, twelve are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Fauna comes from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns.All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and panis is the Modern Greek equivalent of fauna (πανίς or rather πανίδα).
Crete lies in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Aegean Sea is to the north, and the Libyan Sea is to the south. It is about 160 km south of the Greek mainland. Crete is the largest island in Greece and the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean, with an area of 8,336 km 2.
Peloponnese slow worm, Anguis cephallonica Barton's thin-toed gecko, Mediodactylus bartoni Greek algyroides, Algyroides moreoticus Greek rock lizard, Hellenolacerta graeca Cretan wall lizard, Podarcis cretensis Skyros wall lizard, Podarcis gaigeae Pori wall lizard, Podarcis levendis Milos wall lizard, Podarcis milensis Peloponnese wall lizard, Podarcis peloponnesiacus Greek snake skink ...