🇨🇩Animals recorded in the DR Congo

Which animals have been recorded in the DR Congo? 56,198 occurrence records cover 1,200+ 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 Asian tiger mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, yellow fever mosquito.

• 56,198 records
• 1,200+ species
• 46 classes

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The most-recorded species in this dataset include Asian tiger mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, yellow fever mosquito. 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 the DR Congo

	Animal	Group	Records
	Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus	Insecta Culicidae	9,052
	Anopheles gambiae	Insecta Culicidae	3,338
	yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti	Insecta Culicidae	2,519
	West African Slender-Stingless Bee Dactylurina staudingeri	Insecta Apidae	1,780
	western honey bee Apis mellifera	Insecta Apidae	1,623
	Bocande's Stingless Bee Meliponula bocandei	Insecta Apidae	1,402
	Jackson's Praomys Praomys jacksoni	Mammalia Muridae	634
	Gray-bellied Mouse Mus triton	Mammalia Muridae	399
	Anopheles paludis	Insecta Culicidae	305
	Dark-colored Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys aquilus	Mammalia Muridae	293
	Chelophyes appendiculata	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	267
	Dimophyes arctica	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	262
	Lensia conoidea	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	243
	Peters's Hybomys Hybomys univittatus	Mammalia Muridae	237
	Rosacea plicata	Hydrozoa Prayidae	216
	Noack's Roundleaf Bat Hipposideros ruber	Mammalia Hipposideridae	192
	Typical Lemniscomys Lemniscomys striatus	Mammalia Muridae	191
	Hippopodius hippopus	Hydrozoa Hippopodiidae	186
	Eudoxoides spiralis	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	183
	Axestotrigona ferruginea	Insecta Apidae	168
	Coucha Rat Mastomys natalensis	Mammalia Muridae	167
	De Graaff's Praomys Praomys degraaffi	Mammalia Muridae	166
	African giant shrew Crocidura olivieri	Mammalia Soricidae	163
	Agalma okenii	Hydrozoa Agalmatidae	163
	Anopheles funestus	Insecta Culicidae	159
	Paragus pecchiolii	Insecta Syrphidae	157
	Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni	Hydrozoa Pyrostephidae	150
	Stella Hylomyscus Hylomyscus stella	Mammalia Muridae	147
	Common Siphonophore Nanomia bijuga	Hydrozoa Agalmatidae	144
	Southern African Pygmy Mouse Mus minutoides	Mammalia Muridae	136
	South African Digger Wasp Sphex tomentosus	Insecta Sphecidae	135
	Eudoxoides mitra	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	134
	Volcano Forest Shrew Sylvisorex vulcanorum	Mammalia Soricidae	133
	Woosnam's Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys woosnami	Mammalia Muridae	131
	Rueppell's Globetail Sphaerophoria rueppellii	Insecta Syrphidae	130
	Sphex fumicatus	Insecta Sphecidae	129
	Lensia fowleri	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	125
	Acraea Swallowtail Graphium ridleyanus	Insecta Papilionidae	124
	Albertine Rift Wood Mouse Hylomyscus vulcanorum	Mammalia Muridae	121
	Lensia multicristata	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	117
	Pantachogon haeckeli	Hydrozoa Rhopalonematidae	114
	Little Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon pumilus	Mammalia Molossidae	108
	Sulculeolaria chuni	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	100
	Vogtia glabra	Hydrozoa Hippopodiidae	99
	Megachile bituberculata	Insecta Megachilidae	98
	Lensia hotspur	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	93
	Temminck's mouse Mus musculoides	Mammalia Muridae	92
	Olive Sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea	Aves Nectariniidae	91
	veiled medusa Rhopalonema velatum	Hydrozoa Rhopalonematidae	90
	Abylopsis tetragona	Hydrozoa Abylidae	89
	Ansorge's free-tailed bat Chaerephon ansorgei	Mammalia Molossidae	89
	Chelophyes contorta	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	85
	Common Malacomys Malacomys longipes	Mammalia Muridae	84
	Glowing Carpenter Xylocopa calens	Insecta Apidae	83
	Sulculeolaria quadrivalvis	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	83
	Ruwenzori Hybomys Hybomys lunaris	Mammalia Muridae	82
	kob Kobus kob	Mammalia Bovidae	80
	Halicreas minimum	Hydrozoa Halicreatidae	80
	Lensia cossack	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	79
	Diphyes bojani	Hydrozoa Diphyidae	77