Fauna of the Czech Republic

Fauna in the Czech Republic covers 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, storks, etc.^[1]

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
• 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 - 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

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
• 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., 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930072436/http://www.sefrova.com/publication/sefrova_lastuvka_04.pdf

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