🇳🇦Animals recorded in Namibia

Which animals have been recorded in Namibia? 33,697 occurrence records cover 1,200+ species. The most-recorded are listed below, with what the record pattern says about each one. 229 is the most-recorded animal class; the leading species records include Namaqua Micaelamys, Hairy-footed Gerbil, Bushveld Gerbil.

• 33,697 records
• 1,200+ species
• 46 classes

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The most-recorded species in this dataset include Namaqua Micaelamys, Hairy-footed Gerbil, Bushveld Gerbil. 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 Namibia

	Animal	Group	Records
	Namaqua Micaelamys Micaelamys namaquensis	Mammalia Muridae	1,233
	Hairy-footed Gerbil Gerbillurus paeba	Mammalia Muridae	1,144
	Bushveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus leucogaster	Mammalia Muridae	939
	Xeric Four-striped Grass Rat Rhabdomys pumilio	Mammalia Muridae	932
	Coucha Rat Mastomys natalensis	Mammalia Muridae	509
	Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus schreibersii	Mammalia Miniopteridae	415
	Cape Short-tailed Gerbil Desmodillus auricularis	Mammalia Muridae	394
	Wedge-snouted Desert Lizard Meroles cuneirostris	Squamata Lacertidae	341
	Kalahari Burrowing Skink Acontias kgalagadi	Squamata Scincidae	327
	Desert Pygmy Mouse Mus indutus	Mammalia Muridae	291
	Bushveld elephant shrew Elephantulus intufi	Mammalia Macroscelididae	201
	Kalahari Tree Skink Trachylepis spilogaster	Squamata Scincidae	175
	Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus	Mammalia Nesomyidae	167
	White-bellied house bat Scotophilus leucogaster	Mammalia Vespertilionidae	158
	Bagous longulus	Insecta Curculionidae	153
	humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae	Mammalia Balaenopteridae	151
	Sharp-lipped Mabuya Trachylepis acutilabris	Squamata Scincidae	150
	Common Namib Day Gecko Rhoptropus afer	Squamata Gekkonidae	148
	Egyptian Slit-faced Bat Nycteris thebaica	Mammalia Nycteridae	143
	Barnard's Namib Day Gecko Rhoptropus barnardi	Squamata Gekkonidae	138
	Namaqua Sand Lizard Pedioplanis namaquensis	Squamata Lacertidae	127
	Red Veld Aethomys Aethomys chrysophilus	Mammalia Muridae	125
	Tremolo Sand Frog Tomopterna cryptotis	Amphibia Pyxicephalidae	122
	springbok Antidorcas marsupialis	Mammalia Bovidae	120
	Cape ground squirrel Xerus inauris	Mammalia Sciuridae	117
	Namib Dune Gecko Pachydactylus rangei	Squamata Gekkonidae	117
	Prytanomyia kochi	Insecta Asilidae	112
	Mountain Wheatear Oenanthe monticola	Aves Muscicapidae	110
	Western Rock Skink Trachylepis sulcata	Squamata Scincidae	110
	common mole rat Cryptomys hottentotus	Mammalia Bathyergidae	109
	Delalande's Burrowing Bullfrog Tomopterna delalandii	Amphibia Pyxicephalidae	108
	Trichardis picta	Insecta Asilidae	107
	Western rock elephant shrew Elephantulus rupestris	Mammalia Macroscelididae	107
	Variegated Skink Trachylepis variegata	Squamata Scincidae	106
	Two-colored Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus bicolor	Squamata Gekkonidae	101
	Pouched Mouse Saccostomus campestris	Mammalia Nesomyidae	100
	Namib Rock Agama Agama planiceps	Squamata Agamidae	99
	Common Giant Ground Gecko Chondrodactylus angulifer	Squamata Gekkonidae	99
	Ocellated Sand Lizard Pedioplanis lineoocellata	Squamata Lacertidae	98
	Button-scaled Gecko Chondrodactylus laevigatus	Squamata Gekkonidae	97
	gemsbok Oryx gazella	Mammalia Bovidae	96
	Southern Giraffe Giraffa giraffa	Mammalia Giraffidae	95
	Black-fronted Bulbul Pycnonotus nigricans	Aves Pycnonotidae	94
	Dune Hairy-footed Gerbil Gerbillurus tytonis	Mammalia Muridae	94
	Southern Masked-Weaver Ploceus velatus	Aves Ploceidae	94
	South African springhare Pedetes capensis	Mammalia Pedetidae	94
	Bradfield's Namib Day Gecko Rhoptropus bradfieldi	Squamata Gekkonidae	93
	Cape Serotine Laephotis capensis	Mammalia Vespertilionidae	91
	Sabota Lark Calendulauda sabota	Aves Alaudidae	91
	African elephant Loxodonta africana	Mammalia Elephantidae	90
	Egyptian free-tailed bat Tadarida aegyptiaca	Mammalia Molossidae	89
	impala Aepyceros melampus	Mammalia Bovidae	89
	Acnephalomyia eremia	Insecta Asilidae	85
	Social Weaver Philetairus socius	Aves Passeridae	82
	White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali	Aves Passeridae	82
	Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat Hipposideros caffer	Mammalia Hipposideridae	81
	Common Ostrich Struthio camelus	Aves Struthionidae	79
	Spike-heeled Lark Chersomanes albofasciata	Aves Alaudidae	78
	greater kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros	Mammalia Bovidae	78
	Laphyctis eremia	Insecta Asilidae	78