🇮🇱Animals recorded in Israel

Which animals have been recorded in Israel? 41,784 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 Small White, Painted Lady, Large White.

• 41,784 records
• 1,200+ species
• 40 classes

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The most-recorded species in this dataset include Small White, Painted Lady, Large White. 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 Israel

	Animal	Group	Records
	Small White Pieris rapae	Insecta Pieridae	2,010
	Painted Lady Vanessa cardui	Insecta Nymphalidae	898
	Large White Pieris brassicae	Insecta Pieridae	853
	Bath White Pontia daplidice	Insecta Pieridae	829
	Cleopatra Gonepteryx cleopatra	Insecta Pieridae	797
	Large Salmon Arab Colotis fausta	Insecta Pieridae	693
	Common pandora Pagellus erythrinus	— Sparidae	570
	Bogue Boops boops	— Sparidae	531
	Brushtooth lizardfish Saurida undosquamis	— Synodontidae	462
	Clouded Yellow Colias croceus	Insecta Pieridae	448
	Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon	Insecta Papilionidae	410
	Common Squid Loligo vulgaris	Cephalopoda Loliginidae	391
	Green-striped White Euchloe belemia	Insecta Pieridae	388
	Aegean Meadow Brown Maniola telmessia	Insecta Nymphalidae	386
	Roughtail Rock Agama Stellagama stellio	Squamata Agamidae	382
	Goldband goatfish Upeneus moluccensis	— Mullidae	379
	Spotted flounder Citharus linguatula	— Citharidae	369
	Red Mullet Mullus barbatus	— Mullidae	338
	Axillary seabream Pagellus acarne	— Sparidae	319
	Mediterranean horse mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus	— Carangidae	316
	Common Blue Polyommatus icarus	Insecta Lycaenidae	313
	Lycosa piochardi	Arachnida Lycosidae	310
	Lang's Short-tailed Blue Leptotes pirithous	Insecta Lycaenidae	308
	Long-tailed Blue Lampides boeticus	Insecta Lycaenidae	305
	Equulites klunzingeri	— Leiognathidae	302
	Surmullet Mullus surmuletus	— Mullidae	284
	Thersamonia thersamon	Insecta Lycaenidae	283
	Mallow Skipper Carcharodus alceae	Insecta Hesperiidae	280
	Charybdis longicollis	Malacostraca Portunidae	276
	Picarel Spicara smaris	— Sparidae	274
	Large-scaled gurnard Lepidotrigla cavillone	— Triglidae	267
	Deep-Water Rose Shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris	Malacostraca Penaeidae	261
	Brown comber Serranus hepatus	— Serranidae	261
	Chaetorellia conjuncta	Insecta Tephritidae	252
	Blotchfin Dragonet Callionymus filamentosus	— Callionymidae	246
	Randall's threadfin bream Nemipterus randalli	— Nemipteridae	243
	Por's Goatfish Upeneus pori	— Mullidae	235
	Egyptian rousette Rousettus aegyptiacus	Mammalia Pteropodidae	224
	European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus	— Engraulidae	220
	kuruma prawn Penaeus japonicus	Malacostraca Penaeidae	212
	Blotched picarel Spicara maena	— Sparidae	207
	Levantine Marbled White Melanargia titea	Insecta Nymphalidae	197
	Southern white-breasted hedgehog Erinaceus concolor	Mammalia Erinaceidae	197
	golden jackal Canis aureus	Mammalia Canidae	190
	Large Wall Lasiommata maera	Insecta Nymphalidae	189
	Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines	Insecta Pieridae	187
	gray wolf Canis lupus	Mammalia Canidae	187
	Sand steenbras Lithognathus mormyrus	— Sparidae	183
	Chub mackerel Scomber japonicus	— Scombridae	183
	Atlantic horse mackerel Trachurus trachurus	— Carangidae	181
	Wide-eyed flounder Bothus podas	— Bothidae	174
	European hake Merluccius merluccius	— Merlucciidae	173
	Suez Puffer Lagocephalus suezensis	— Tetraodontidae	172
	European badger Meles meles	Mammalia Mustelidae	164
	Common Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis	Cephalopoda Sepiidae	161
	Reticulated Leatherjacket Stephanolepis diaspros	— Monacanthidae	161
	Arabian gazelle Gazella gazella	Mammalia Bovidae	158
	African Babul Blue Azanus jesous	Insecta Lycaenidae	147
	Large-eye dentex Dentex macrophthalmus	— Sparidae	147
	Smith's Cardinalfish Jaydia smithi	— Apogonidae	145