Country Faunas & Checklists

In accordance with Article 8j, 10c and the Programme of Work of the Global Taxonomy Initiative on Tradtional Knowledge and the Value and Importance of Local Communities of the Convention of Biological Diversity, a number of pages in regional languages are added here. Click on the flags to find species lists and information, vernacular names in the national language(s). More countries and languages will follow.

The image pages for the single species are directly linked to the Fauna Europaea Project to get more information on the European distribution. Useful general country informaton e.g in the CIA World Factbook and your local Wikipedia. Google Earth gives a good impression how the locations actually looked like in the years 2004-2006.

Colour Coding of Bioregions

	The countries are sorted according to their internet codes.		click on flag to continue	species no.	bioregion
AR	Argentina	Argentina		37	checklist
AT	Österreich	Austria		7
AU	Australia	Australia		87+1	checklist annotated
BE	Belgie, Belgique	Belgium		5
CD	Republique Democratique du Congo	Democratic Republic of the Congo		128	checklist
CH	Schweiz	Switzerland		9
DE	Deutschland	Germany		7
FJ	Republic of the Fiji Islands Fiji	Republic of the Fiji Islands Fiji		16	checklist
GR	Elliniki Dhimokratia Ellas	Greece		16	checklist
IE	Eire	Ireland		3
IR	Iran	Iran		13 updated	checklist 13. June '06
JP	Nippon	Japan		35
KE	Kenya	Kenya		54	checklist
KR KP	Taehan - min'guk Choson - minjujuui - inmin - konghwaguk	Korea, including South Korea and North Korea		22 updated	checklist 23.Oct '06
NA	Namibia	Namibia		7	checklist
NI	Nicaragua	Nicaragua		42	checklist
PE	Peru	Peru		55	checklist
RU	России	Russia		34
SC	Seychelles	Seychelles		23	checklist
SD	Sudan	Sudan		14	checklist
SE	Sverige	Sweden		6
TR	Turkiye	Turkey		20	checklist
UA	Украине	Ukraine		14
UK	United Kingdom	United Kingdom		7
US	United States of America	USA		28 updated	checklist 07. July '07
VE	Venezuela	Venezuela		85	checklist
ZA	South Africa	South Africa		48	checklist
	All Names		click on flag to continue	species no.	bioregion