Fauna of the Czech Republic

Fauna in the Czech Republic covers a wide variety of animal species.

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 - 243 in the wild, and at least 11 species in greenhouses. See List of molluscs recorded in the Czech Republic
* Annelida - probably 220 including Slovakia
** Annelida / Aeolosomata & Oligochaeta (water species) - 81
** Annelida / leeches Hirudinea - 19. See List of leeches recorded in the Czech Republic
** Annelida / Lumbricidae - 46
* Nematomorpha - few
* Acanthocephala - yes
* Tardigrada - 100
* spiders Araneae - 849 - see [http://www.usbe.cas.cz/cervenakniha/texty/tax_skupiny/pavouci_ruzicka.pdf]
* scorpions Scorpiones - 1
* Pseudoscorpionida - 25
* Opilionida - 31 - see [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; 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
* Lepidoptera (water species) - 6
* Diptera - 6500 including Slovakia
* Hymenoptera - ?

;vertebrates - altogether probably 550 species
* Cyclostomata - 3
* fishes - probably 65 - see
* amphibians - asi 20
* reptiles - about 12
* birds - 415 - see List of birds of the Czech Republic
* mammals - about 100 - ,

References

* Optarný E. (1999) Zoogeografie. - Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc, 191 pp., ISBN 80-244-0011-1 (in Czech)

External links

* checklists at BioLib http://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. http://www.sefrova.com/publication/sefrova_lastuvka_04.pdf