Fauna of Honduras

The republic of Honduras, is a Central American country, geographically situated inside the tropics, this habitat allow thousand of species to adapted easily to its lands, therefore has a wide variety of flora and fauna species, human species between them.

Sight of a Shark near of the Island of Útila in Honduras

Many of these species find in road of extinction, which has posed to the Honduran government, offices and naturist organizations that promote and look after the protection so much the biodiversity of species, like the existent natural reservations.

Fauna in Honduras is very rich and varied being the most common the ones of arboreal life and those that live in the fluvial currents lacustrine waters.

Big animals are not very numerous but there are hundreds of reptilean species, amphibians and birds; lizards and a lot of varieties of fish in the currents. Cute, bats and myriads of birds abound in the trees.

Climate

Since there is not cold station, thousands of varieties of insects grown on Honduras: wasps, ants, mosquitos, zancudos, jejenes and others.

Mamiferos

Between the mammals find :

Birds

Colibrí Emerald of Honduras or amazilia Honduran

Avifauna is varied and very abundant between which find :

Reptiles

There are 264 species of reptiles known from Honduras, including 59 species that are endemic to the country. These include chrocodilians (two species, the spectacled caiman Caiman crocodilus and the American crocodile Crocodylus acutus), lizards (103 species), snakes (142 species), and turtles (17 species).[1]

The reptiles include the following:

Amphibians

There are 137 species of amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians) known from Honduras, including 52 species that are endemic to the country. Anurans are the most species-rich group (97 species), followed by salamanders (38 species) and caecilians (2 species).[1] While new species are still expected to be discovered, chytridiomycosis and deforestation are threats to the amphibian fauna.[1] At least one species, the frog Craugastor chrysozetetes, is believed to be extinct.[2]

Coral

The coasts of Honduras, find bathed north and east by the Sea Caribbean and in the south by the Gulf of Fonseca, in the next turquoise waters to the Sea Caribbean can appreciate by means of diving the Coral reefs with his diversity of calcareous seaweeds, red seaweeds, (Rhodophyta), like marine meadows, between other aquatic plants that tackle a natural ecosystem.

Between the fauna that can find in the Honduran coasts, are the Shark whale, dolphins, variety of tropical fish, shrimps (Caridea) and a lot of species more

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 McCranie, James R. (2015). "A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed". Zootaxa. 3931 (3): 352–386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.2.
  2. ↑ Cruz, G., Wilson, L.D. & McCranie, R. (2004). "Craugastor chrysozetetes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T56513A11488131. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
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