🇨🇻Animals recorded in Cabo Verde

Which animals have been recorded in Cabo Verde? 10,799 occurrence records cover 1,175 species. The most-recorded are listed below, with what the record pattern says about each one. 216 is the most-recorded animal class; the leading species records include yellow fever mosquito, Northern House Mosquito, humpback whale.

• 10,799 records
• 1,175 species
• 33 classes

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The most-recorded species in this dataset include yellow fever mosquito, Northern House Mosquito, humpback whale. Use the country list as evidence of recorded wildlife, then open a species to compare its records across other countries and months. It is not a complete habitat or population census.

Most-recorded animals in Cabo Verde

	Animal	Group	Records
	yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti	Insecta Culicidae	1,920
	Northern House Mosquito Culex pipiens	Insecta Culicidae	1,920
	humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae	Mammalia Balaenopteridae	389
	Cape Verde Sparrow Passer iagoensis	Aves Passeridae	210
	Brown garden eel Heteroconger longissimus	— Congridae	143
	Purplemouth Moray Gymnothorax vicinus	— Muraenidae	98
	Sal Island Skink Chioninia spinalis	Squamata Scincidae	83
	White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina	Aves Hydrobatidae	83
	Honeycomb Moray Muraena melanotis	— Muraenidae	57
	Gray-headed Kingfisher Halcyon leucocephala	Aves Alcedinidae	53
	Common Waxbill Estrilda astrild	Aves Estrildidae	50
	Red-billed Phaethon aethereus	Aves Phaethontidae	50
	Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus	Aves Falconidae	46
	Slender snipe eel Nemichthys scolopaceus	— Nemichthyidae	42
	Boyd's Shearwater Puffinus boydi	Aves Procellariidae	42
	Muelleroecia macromma	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	42
	Orthoconchoecia atlantica	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	41
	Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis	Aves Passeridae	41
	Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii	Aves Procellariidae	40
	Rotundoecia teretivalvata	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	39
	Mikroconchoecia curta	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	37
	Nasoecia nasotuberculata	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	36
	Discoconchoecia elegans	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	33
	Paraconchoecia oblonga	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	33
	Brown-necked Raven Corvus ruficollis	Aves Corvidae	33
	Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla	Aves Sylviidae	31
	Porroecia spinirostris	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	28
	Conchoecilla daphnoides	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	27
	Parasergestes diapontius	Malacostraca Sergestidae	27
	Conchoecia magna	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	26
	Halocypris pelagica	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	26
	Brown Booby Sula leucogaster	Aves Sulidae	26
	Orthoconchoecia bispinosa	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	26
	Allosergestes pectinatus	Malacostraca Sergestidae	26
	Neosergestes edwardsii	Malacostraca Sergestidae	26
	Allosergestes sargassi	Malacostraca Sergestidae	25
	Amegilla godofredi	Insecta Apidae	25
	Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura	Aves Alaudidae	25
	Proceroecia procera	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	24
	Conchoecia subarcuata	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	24
	feeble spiny-tailed shrimp Systellaspis debilis	Malacostraca Oplophoridae	23
	Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma castro	Aves Hydrobatidae	23
	Macrochoecilla macrocheira	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	22
	Paraconchoecia echinata	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	22
	Triplewart Seadevil Cryptopsaras couesii	— Ceratiidae	22
	Richard's shrimp Plesionika richardi	Malacostraca Pandalidae	22
	Gennadas scutatus	Malacostraca Benthesicymidae	22
	Conchoecetta giesbrechti	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	21
	Blackbar soldierfish Myripristis jacobus	— Holocentridae	21
	Spectacled Warbler Sylvia conspicillata	Aves Sylviidae	21
	Amegilla capeverdensis	Insecta Apidae	20
	standard spiny-tailed shrimp Oplophorus spinosus	Malacostraca Oplophoridae	20
	Johnson's black anglerfish Melanocetus johnsonii	— Melanocetidae	20
	Proceroecia brachyaskos	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	19
	Paraconchoecia aequiseta	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	19
	Tropical two-wing flyingfish Exocoetus volitans	— Exocoetidae	19
	Zugmayer's pearleye Benthalbella infans	— Scopelarchidae	19
	Cream-colored Courser Cursorius cursor	Aves Glareolidae	19
	rhodesgrass mealybugs Alacia alata	Ostracoda Halocyprididae	19
	Conus crotchii	Gastropoda Conidae	19