What Animal Lives Where

🇮🇩Animals recorded in Indonesia

Which animals have been recorded in Indonesia? 356,667 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 southern house mosquito, Polynesian Rat, Common Emigrant.

Country evidence passport

Evidence found

356,667 coordinate-bearing animal records; 1,200+ species facets.

ID is the stable ISO place code.

Source coverage

GBIF Animalia occurrence facets for this country, restricted to CC0 records.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect GBIF.

What this means

The listed species have reusable occurrence evidence in the stated source universe.

Rows are ordered by record count.

What this does not mean

The list is not a census, abundance ranking, native-range claim or guarantee of current presence.

Missing or low counts can reflect uneven survey effort.

216 · 239,490359 · 22,80611592253 · 10,694131 · 8,311206 · 9,087212 · 10,638225 · 8,282229 · 5,773137 · 3,511214 · 2,20511545536 · 1,075252 · 1,401

The most-recorded species in this dataset include southern house mosquito, Polynesian Rat, Common Emigrant. 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 Indonesia

AnimalGroupRecords
southern house mosquito southern house mosquito
Culex quinquefasciatus
Insecta
Culicidae
6,055
Polynesian Rat
Rattus exulans
Mammalia
Muridae
2,140
Common Emigrant
Catopsilia pomona
Insecta
Pieridae
1,831
Asian tiger mosquito, Forest day mosquito Asian tiger mosquito
Aedes albopictus
Insecta
Culicidae
1,797
Red Helen
Papilio helenus
Insecta
Papilionidae
1,598
Culex sitiens Insecta
Culicidae
1,569
Christmas Swallowtail
Papilio memnon
Insecta
Papilionidae
1,536
Common Mormon
Papilio polytes
Insecta
Papilionidae
1,474
Common Grass Yellow
Eurema hecabe
Insecta
Pieridae
1,434
Grey Glassy Tiger
Ideopsis juventa
Insecta
Nymphalidae
1,345
Mansonia annulifera Insecta
Culicidae
1,319
Striped Blue Crow
Euploea mulciber
Insecta
Nymphalidae
1,227
Banded Swallowtail
Papilio demolion
Insecta
Papilionidae
1,117
Culex vishnui Insecta
Culicidae
1,057
yellow fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti
Insecta
Culicidae
1,051
Culex bitaeniorhynchus Insecta
Culicidae
968
Great Jay
Graphium eurypylus
Insecta
Papilionidae
935
Danaus affinis Insecta
Nymphalidae
926
Fijian Crow Butterfly
Euploea leucostictos
Insecta
Nymphalidae
919
Common Tiger Butterfly
Danaus genutia
Insecta
Nymphalidae
905
boring clam boring clam
Tridacna crocea
Bivalvia
Cardiidae
902
azure sea star azure sea star
Linckia laevigata
Asteroidea
Ophidiasteridae
899
black rat black rat
Rattus rattus
Mammalia
Muridae
856
Large Citrus Butterfly
Papilio aegeus
Insecta
Papilionidae
851
Green-spotted Triangle
Graphium agamemnon
Insecta
Papilionidae
848
Canopus Swallowtail
Papilio fuscus
Insecta
Papilionidae
835
Culex tritaeniorhynchus Culex tritaeniorhynchus Insecta
Culicidae
778
Common Evening Brown
Melanitis leda
Insecta
Nymphalidae
766
Celebes Toad
Ingerophrynus celebensis
Amphibia
Bufonidae
755
Long-branded Blue Crow
Euploea algea
Insecta
Nymphalidae
751
Delias belisama Insecta
Pieridae
748
Plain Tiger Plain Tiger
Danaus chrysippus
Insecta
Nymphalidae
743
Delias meeki Insecta
Pieridae
704
Chocolate Albatross
Appias lyncida
Insecta
Pieridae
689
Blue Triangle
Graphium sarpedon
Insecta
Papilionidae
681
Common Birdwing
Troides helena
Insecta
Papilionidae
678
Oriental House Rat
Rattus tanezumi
Mammalia
Muridae
678
Cape York Birdwing
Ornithoptera priamus
Insecta
Papilionidae
677
Five-bar Swordtail
Graphium antiphates
Insecta
Papilionidae
670
Swift Peacock Swallowtail
Papilio peranthus
Insecta
Papilionidae
649
Painted Jezebel
Delias hyparete
Insecta
Pieridae
646
Anopheles vagus Insecta
Culicidae
642
elongate clam elongate clam
Tridacna maxima
Bivalvia
Cardiidae
628
Mansonia uniformis Insecta
Culicidae
617
Thyca crystallina Gastropoda
Eulimidae
584
Common Sailer
Neptis hylas
Insecta
Nymphalidae
582
Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat
Cynopterus brachyotis
Mammalia
Pteropodidae
560
Paris Peacock
Papilio paris
Insecta
Papilionidae
555
Culex gelidus Insecta
Culicidae
547
Blue Moon Blue Moon
Hypolimnas bolina
Insecta
Nymphalidae
547
Blue Glassy Tiger
Ideopsis vulgaris
Insecta
Nymphalidae
539
Delias pheres Insecta
Pieridae
531
Emerald Skink Emerald Skink
Lamprolepis smaragdina
Squamata
Scincidae
520
Orange Emigrant
Catopsilia scylla
Insecta
Pieridae
506
Papuan Grass-yellow
Eurema blanda
Insecta
Pieridae
498
Belenois java Insecta
Pieridae
495
Yellow Glassy Tiger
Parantica aspasia
Insecta
Nymphalidae
493
Eastern Red Lacewing Butterfly
Cethosia cydippe
Insecta
Nymphalidae
492
Cruiser
Vindula deione
Insecta
Nymphalidae
492
Common Clubtail
Losaria coon
Insecta
Papilionidae
473
How to read this. These are records, not a census. A high count can mean a common animal or simply a well-watched one, and limited records appear alongside repeated records. Open an animal to inspect whether the evidence is one-off, repeated, recent or historical.