Animal encyclopedia: all species

Explore the 20 animal species in TunisieVet’s Animalpedia: characteristics, diet, habitat, behaviour and conservation status.

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Fish (Actinopterygians) 15 Tardigrades (Eutardigrada / Heterotardigrada) 1 Polychaetes 2 Turbellarians (Flatworms) 1 Clitellates 1 Clitellates 1 Bivalves 7 Gastropods 6 Crustaceans (Barnacles) 1 Malacostracan Crustaceans 10 Horseshoe crabs 1 Sarcopterygians (Flesh-finned fish) 1 Actinistians (Sarcopterygians) 1 Bony fish (Actinopterygians) 1 Actinopterygians 17 Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) 1 Chondrichthyans 8 Cephalopods 4 Chondrichthyans 5 Molluscs 1 Mammals 168 Birds 114 Reptiles 51 Amphibians 7 Fish 27 Insects 55 Arachnids 11 Crustaceans 2

HABITAT

Forest Farmland & grasslands Wetlands Steppe Urban environment Mountain Coastline Ocean & sea Rivers & lakes Tropical forest Savanna Desert

IUCN STATUS

Not evaluated Least concern Endangered Data deficient Near threatened Vulnerable Critically endangered Extinct in the wild

REGION

Present in Tunisia

20 species cephalopodes Chondrichthyans Arachnids

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Tunisia

Deathstalker scorpion

Androctonus australis

Not evaluated Desert

Giant manta ray

Mobula birostris

Endangered Ocean & sea

Goliath birdeater

Theraphosa blondi

Not evaluated Tropical forest

Tunisia

Torpedo ray

Torpedo torpedo / Torpedo marmorata (famille Torpedinidae)

Least concern Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Stingray

Dasyatis pastinaca (et autres espèces de la famille Dasyatidae)

Near threatened Ocean & sea

Day octopus

Octopus cyanea

Data deficient Ocean & sea

Nurse shark

Ginglymostoma cirratum

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Lemon shark

Negaprion brevirostris

Near threatened

Tunisia

Spider

Araneae

Least concern Desert

Tunisia

Crab Spider

Thomisidae (ex. Misumena vatia)

Least concern Forest

Tarantula

Data deficient Desert

Tunisia

Squid

Teuthida (ordre) — ex. Loligo vulgaris

Least concern Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Wolf Spider

Lycosa tarantula (Lycosidae)

Least concern Desert

Tunisia

Black Widow

Latrodectus mactans (et espèces apparentées du genre Latrodectus)

Least concern Desert

Tunisia

Tick

Ixodida (ordre), ex. Ixodes ricinus

Least concern Forest

Tunisia

Harvestman

Opiliones (ordre)

Least concern Forest

Tunisia

Mite

Acari

Pseudoscorpion

Cuttlefish

Sepia officinalis

Least concern Ocean & sea

Nautilus

Nautilus pompilius

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

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