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The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenidae.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Azores Islands, Portugal. [1] Except for marine mammals and two species of bats, the Azores were completely devoid of mammals prior to their discovery in the early 15th century. All other mammals in the islands are therefore introduced species.
Zodarion bosmansi. Zodarion costapratae. Zodarion duriense. Zodarion guadianense. Zodarion lusitanicum. Categories: Biota of Portugal. Fauna by country. Fauna of Europe by country.
Fauna of Portugal may refer to: List of birds of Portugal. List of mammals of Portugal.
List of mammals of Madeira. Categories: Lists of mammals by country. Fauna of Portugal. Lists of biota of Portugal.
List of mammals of Madeira. This is a list of indigenous mammals of the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira in the North Atlantic ocean. Besides the mammals on the islands, the coastal waters are host to at least nine species of dolphins and ten species of migrating cetaceans. These are protected in the 430,000 km 2 Madeiran Marine Mammal Sanctuary.
Portugal is located on the Mediterranean Basin, the third most diverse hotspot of flora in the world. [ 1] Due to its geographical and climatic context - between the Atlantic and Mediterranean - Portugal has a high level of biodiversity on land and at sea. It is home to six terrestrial ecoregions: Azores temperate mixed forests, Cantabrian ...
It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of Caucasus Mountains), whether resident or as regular migrants. Moreover, species occurring in Cyprus , Canary Islands ( Spain ) and Azores ( Portugal ) are listed here.