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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Costa Rica. Of the mammal species in Costa Rica, [1] one is critically endangered, four are endangered, six are vulnerable, and three are near threatened. One species is considered extinct. [2] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the ...
Yigüirro, Costa Rica's national bird. 941 bird species have been recorded in Costa Rica (including Cocos Island), more than all of the United States and Canada combined. More than 600 of the Costa Rican species are permanent residents, and upwards of 200 are migrants, spending portions of the year outside of the country, usually in North America.
[4] [5] Each of the four species can be seen in national parks within Costa Rica, where viewing them in natural surroundings is a popular tourist attraction. [6] [7] A place where all four species can be seen is Corcovado National Park, on the Osa Peninsula. [8] The smallest of the Costa Rican monkey species is the Central American squirrel monkey.
The Cozumel Island coati was formerly recognised as a species, but the vast majority of recent authorities treat it as a subspecies, N. narica nelsoni, of the white-nosed coati. [2] [11] [13] [14] [15] Genetic evidence (cytochrome b sequences) has suggested that the genus Nasuella should be merged into Nasua, as the latter is otherwise ...
The Costa Rican portion harbors 136 mammal species, the Panamanian 84. Characteristic mammals include jaguar, cougar, tapir, deer, anteater, and several species of monkey. The Talamancan oryzomys (Nephelomys devius) is endemic to the ecoregion. Birds are also well represented. The Costa Rican portion holds 450 species, the Panamanian 225.
List of mammals of Costa Rica; List of non-marine molluscs of Costa Rica; Footnotes This page was last edited on 25 September 2024, at 00:10 (UTC). Text ...
This list consists of those mammal species found from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the northwestern border of Colombia, a region including the Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo, and the nations of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. As of May 2012, the list contains ...
The green sea turtle is a globally endangered species and one of the most important nesting grounds for it is in Tortuguero, Costa Rica [11] - the word Totuguero is derived from old Spanish maps meaning "place of turtles". After a steady global decline in its population due to overhunting for its meat and eggs, the Tortuguero National Park was ...