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.
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 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217150420/http://www.usbe.cas.cz/cervenakniha/texty/tax_skupiny/pavouci_ruzicka.pdf
- scorpions Scorpiones - 1
- Pseudoscorpionida - 25
- Opilionida - 31 - see https://web.archive.org/web/20080310215123/http://www.butbn.cas.cz/klimes/arachno/bibl_opi.html
- 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
See also
References
- Optarný E. (1999) Zoogeografie. - Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc, 191 pp., (in Czech)
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