Fauna of the Czech Republic explained

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 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

• Cyclostomata - 3
• fishes - probably 65 - see
• 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,

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., (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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Czech Republic - Land. 2021-08-09. Encyclopedia Britannica. en.