Fauna in the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
covers a wide variety of
animal
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species
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.
Some species (especially
endangered
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ones) are bred in
reserves. Among the rare animals are, for example, eagles, ospreys, bustards, storks, etc.
Number of species in the Czech Republic
Approximate number of animal species in the Czech Republic is about 40 000 species.
* Protozoa - yes (worldwide ~ 31 000)
* Porifera - yes
* Cnidaria / Hydrozoa - 4
* Platyhelminthes
** Platyhelminthes / Catenulida, Macrostomida & 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
This is a list of the non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic. That country is land-locked and therefore it has no marine molluscs, only land and freshwater species, including snails, slugs, freshwater clams and freshwater mussels. There are ...
* Annelida - probably 220 including Slovakia
** Annelida / Aeolosomata & 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 - se
* scorpions Scorpiones - 1
* Pseudoscorpionida - 25
* Opilionida - 31 - se
* 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
; insect 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
This is a list of the non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic. That country is land-locked and therefore it has no marine molluscs, only land and freshwater species, including snails, slugs, freshwater clams and freshwater mussels. There are ...
*
List of Lepidoptera of the Czech Republic
*
List of herpetofauna of the Czech Republic
References
* Optarný E. (1999) Zoogeografie. - Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc, 191 pp., (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. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930072436/http://www.sefrova.com/publication/sefrova_lastuvka_04.pdf
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