Animal encyclopedia: all species

Explore the 41 animal species in TunisieVet’s Animalpedia: characteristics, diet, habitat, behaviour and conservation status.

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Chondrichthyans 8 Bivalves 4 Gastropods 4 Crustaceans (Barnacles) 1 Malacostracan Crustaceans 10 Horseshoe crabs 1 Sarcopterygians (Flesh-finned fish) 1 Actinistians (Sarcopterygians) 1 Bony fish (Actinopterygians) 1 Fish (Actinopterygians) 15 Actinopterygians 17 Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) 1 Cephalopods 4 Chondrichthyans 5 Molluscs 1 Mammals 168 Birds 114 Reptiles 51 Amphibians 7 Fish 27 Insects 54 Arachnids 11 Crustaceans 2

HABITAT

Forest Farmland & grasslands Wetlands Steppe Urban environment Mountain Coastline Rivers & lakes Ocean & sea 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

41 species cephalopodes Chondrichthyans Fish Crustaceans

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Goldfish

Carassius auratus

Least concern Rivers & lakes

Tiger shark

Galeocerdo cuvier

Near threatened

Tunisia

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

Near threatened Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Atlantic bluefin tuna

Thunnus thynnus

Least concern Ocean & sea

Basking shark

Cetorhinus maximus

Endangered Ocean & sea

Great white shark

Carcharodon carcharias

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Mako shark

Isurus oxyrinchus

Endangered Ocean & sea

Clownfish

Amphiprion ocellaris

Least concern Ocean & sea

Siamese fighting fish

Betta splendens

Vulnerable Rivers & lakes

Guppy

Poecilia reticulata

Least concern Rivers & lakes

Whale shark

Rhincodon typus

Endangered Ocean & sea

Tunisia

thresher shark

Alopias vulpinus

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Dusky grouper

Epinephelus marginatus

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Sawfish

Critically endangered Ocean & sea

European lobster

Homarus gammarus

Least concern Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Eel

Anguilla anguilla

Critically endangered

Cod

Gadus morhua

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Marlin

Makaira nigricans

Vulnerable

Day octopus

Octopus cyanea

Data deficient Ocean & sea

Long-snouted seahorse

Hippocampus guttulatus

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Hammerhead shark

moray eel

Sea bream

Sparus aurata

Least concern Ocean & sea

Perch

Perca fluviatilis

Least concern Rivers & lakes

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