🇻🇪Animals recorded in Venezuela

Which animals have been recorded in Venezuela? 123,893 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 Seba's Short-tailed Bat, Little Yellow-Shouldered Bat, Jamaican fruit bat.

• 123,893 records
• 1,200+ species
• 49 classes

Country evidence passport

The most-recorded species in this dataset include Seba's Short-tailed Bat, Little Yellow-Shouldered Bat, Jamaican fruit bat. 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 Venezuela

	Animal	Group	Records
	Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	2,853
	Little Yellow-Shouldered Bat Sturnira lilium	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	1,327
	Jamaican fruit bat Artibeus jamaicensis	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	1,101
	Rhodnius prolixus	Insecta Reduviidae	699
	Hyale pygmaea	Malacostraca Hyalidae	665
	Great Fruit-Eating Bat Artibeus lituratus	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	646
	Pallas's Long-Tongued Bat Glossophaga soricina	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	640
	Apohyale media	Malacostraca Hyalidae	640
	Short-Tailed Cane Mouse Zygodontomys brevicauda	Mammalia Cricetidae	615
	common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	592
	Miller's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga longirostris	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	568
	Lionfish Pterois volitans	— Scorpaenidae	490
	Curaçaoan Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	489
	Hairy Big-Eyed Bat Chiroderma villosum	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	482
	Tent-Making Bat Uroderma bilobatum	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	450
	Swordfish Xiphias gladius	— Xiphiidae	411
	Ampelisca paria	Malacostraca Ampeliscidae	403
	Chimarra creagra	Insecta Philopotamidae	400
	Silky Short-Tailed Bat Carollia brevicaudum	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	397
	Velvety free-tailed bat Molossus molossus	Mammalia Molossidae	366
	Greater Spear-Nosed Bat Phyllostomus hastatus	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	339
	Ericthonius punctatus	Malacostraca Ischyroceridae	335
	Lesser Bulldog Bat Noctilio albiventris	Mammalia Noctilionidae	329
	Trahira Hoplias malabaricus	— Erythrinidae	312
	Silver Fruit-Eating Bat Artibeus glaucus	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	312
	Aphyocharax alburnus	— Characidae	305
	Nectopsyche gemmoides	Insecta Leptoceridae	290
	Forest Small Rice Rat Microryzomys minutus	Mammalia Cricetidae	288
	Black Mastiff Bat Molossus rufus	Mammalia Molossidae	274
	Rock-boring Urchin Echinometra lucunter	Echinoidea Echinometridae	273
	Moenkhausia copei	— Characidae	254
	Guyenne Spiny-Rat Proechimys guyannensis	Mammalia Echimyidae	253
	fringe-lipped bat Trachops cirrhosus	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	252
	Brown Tent-making Bat Uroderma magnirostrum	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	245
	Greater Sac-Winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata	Mammalia Emballonuridae	243
	Ampithoe ramondi	Malacostraca Ampithoidae	242
	Bigeye tuna Thunnus obesus	— Scombridae	240
	hispid cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus	Mammalia Cricetidae	240
	Dark fruit-eating bat Artibeus obscurus	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	234
	Smicridea meridensis	Insecta Hydropsychidae	234
	Highland Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira ludovici	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	232
	Silver tetra Ctenobrycon spilurus	— Characidae	231
	Brown-bellied Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus fusciventris	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	229
	Yellow-fin Tunny Thunnus albacares	— Scombridae	227
	Gammarid Elasmopus rapax	Malacostraca Maeridae	226
	Pale Spear-Nosed Bat Phyllostomus discolor	Mammalia Phyllostomidae	225
	Two spot astyanax Astyanax bimaculatus	— Characidae	224
	Red-Tailed Astyanax Odontostilbe pulchra	— Characidae	221
	Giant ameiva Ameiva ameiva	Squamata Teiidae	221
	Leptonema albovirens	Insecta Hydropsychidae	219
	Chimarra platyrhina	Insecta Philopotamidae	218
	Bufo toad Rhinella marina	Amphibia Bufonidae	216
	Parnell's Mustached Bat Pteronotus parnellii	Mammalia Mormoopidae	214
	Chimarra flinti	Insecta Philopotamidae	211
	Blue Acara Andinoacara pulcher	— Cichlidae	209
	Heterophoxus oculatus	Malacostraca Phoxocephalidae	197
	Black Myotis Myotis nigricans	Mammalia Vespertilionidae	196
	Roeboides dayi	— Characidae	195
	Hump-backed Sardine Steindachnerina argentea	— Curimatidae	193
	Robinson's Mouse Opossum Marmosa robinsoni	Mammalia Didelphidae	191