Animal encyclopedia: all species

Explore the 33 animal species in TunisieVet’s Animalpedia: characteristics, diet, habitat, behaviour and conservation status.

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Chondrichthyans 8 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 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 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

33 species cephalopodes Fish Crustaceans

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Goldfish

Carassius auratus

Least concern Rivers & lakes

Tunisia

Swordfish

Xiphias gladius

Near threatened Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Atlantic bluefin tuna

Thunnus thynnus

Least concern Ocean & sea

Clownfish

Amphiprion ocellaris

Least concern Ocean & sea

Great white shark

Carcharodon carcharias

Vulnerable 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

Dusky grouper

Epinephelus marginatus

Vulnerable 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

Long-snouted seahorse

Hippocampus guttulatus

Vulnerable Ocean & sea

Day octopus

Octopus cyanea

Data deficient Ocean & sea

Tunisia

moray eel

Least concern

Perch

Perca fluviatilis

Least concern Rivers & lakes

Tunisia

Sea bream

Sparus aurata

Least concern Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Bonito

Sarda sarda

Least concern Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Scorpionfish

Least concern Ocean & sea

Tunisia

Pufferfish

Tetraodontidae (ex. Lagocephalus sceleratus)

Least concern

Tunisia

Ballista

Balistidae (famille), ex. Balistes carolinensis

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Red mullet

Mullus barbatus / Mullus surmuletus

Least concern Ocean & sea

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