Fauna of the Czech Republic
The fauna of the Czech Republic includes a wide variety of animal species.
Some species (especially endangered ones) are bred in reserves. Among the rare animals are, for example, eagles, ospreys, bustards, and storks.[1]
Number of species in the Czech Republic
There are approximately 40,000 animal species in the Czech Republic.
- Protozoa - yes (worldwide ~ 31 000)
- Porifera - yes
- Cnidaria / Hydrozoa - 4
- Platyhelminthes
- Platyhelminthes / Catenulida, Macrostomida and Neorhabdocoela - 18
- Platyhelminthes / Tricladida - 16
- Nemertea - 1
- Rotifera - probably 500
- Gastrotricha - 24
- Nematoda - from 501 to 5000 ?
- molluscs Mollusca - 247 in the wild, and at least 11 species in greenhouses. See List of non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic
- Annelida - probably 220 including Slovakia
- Annelida / Aeolosomata and Oligochaeta (water species) - 81
- Annelida / leeches Hirudinea - 19. See List of leeches of the Czech Republic
- Annelida / Lumbricidae - 46
- Nematomorpha - few
- Acanthocephala - yes
- Tardigrada - 100
- spiders Araneae - 849 - see [1]
- scorpions Scorpiones - 1
- Pseudoscorpionida - 25
- Opilionida - 31 - see [2]
- Acarina
- Acarina / Mesostigmata - yes
- Acarina / Ixodides - 22
- Acarina / Prostigmata - 10
- Acarina / Eriophyoidea - yes
- Acarina (water) - 432
- Acarina / Oribatida - 548
- crustaceans Crustacea
- Crustacea / Anostraca - 5
- Crustacea / Notostraca - 2
- Crustacea / Spinicaudata - 4
- Crustacea / Cladocera - 105
- Crustacea / Ostracoda - 74
- Crustacea / Copepoda - 82
- Crustacea / Isopoda / Oniscidea - 52
- Crustacea / Isopoda (water) - 2
- Crustacea / Amphipoda - 8
- Crustacea / Decapoda - 6
- Chilopoda - 67
- Diplopoda - 65
- Protura - 32
- Collembola - probably 400
- Campodeina and Japygina - 10
- insects - Insecta
- Zygentoma - 4
- Ephemeroptera - 97
- Odonata - 70
- Plecoptera - 80
- Blattodea - 5
- Mantodea - 1
- Ensifera and Caelifera - 93
- Dermaptera - 6
- Psocoptera - 70
- Thysanoptera - 230
- Heteroptera (land species) - 790
- Heteroptera (water species) - 60
- Auchenorrhyncha - 533
- Sternorrhyncha / Psyllinea - 116
- Sternorrhyncha / Aleyrodinea - 20
- Sternorrhyncha / Aphidinea - 689
- Sternorrhyncha / Coccinea - 140
- Trichoptera - 239
- Mecoptera - 9
- Neuroptera (land species) - 82
- Neuroptera (water species) - 3
- Raphidioptera - 10
- Megaloptera - 3
- Lepidoptera - 3200 - see List of Lepidoptera of the Czech Republic
- Lepidoptera (water species) - 6
- Diptera - 6500 including Slovakia
- Hymenoptera - ?
- vertebrates - altogether probably 550 species
- Cyclostomata - 3
- fishes - probably 65 - see cs:seznam ryb v Česku
- amphibians - about 20
- reptiles - about 12 see List of herpetofauna of the Czech Republic
- birds - 415 - see List of birds of the Czech Republic
- mammals - about 100 - see List of mammals of the Czech Republic, cs:seznam netopýrů v Česku
See also
- List of mammals of the Czech Republic
- List of birds of the Czech Republic
- List of leeches of the Czech Republic
- List of non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic
- List of Lepidoptera of the Czech Republic
- List of herpetofauna of the Czech Republic
References
- ^ "Czech Republic - Land". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- Optarný E. (1999) Zoogeografie. - Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc, 191 pp., ISBN 80-244-0011-1 (in Czech)
External links
- checklists at BioLib https://www.biolib.cz/cz/checklistsspec
- Šefrová H. & Laštůvka Z. (2005) "Catalogue of alien animal species in the Czech Republic". Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., Brno, 53 (4): 151–170.