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Animals in Belize

16 animal species on file have openly licensed sighting records from Belize, 4 of them threatened. Records include captive animals and introduced populations.

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Species recorded
16
Threatened
4
Groups represented
6
Sighting records
4,357
Fiji: 11 speciesTanzania: 21 speciesW. Sahara: 8 speciesCanada: 38 speciesUnited States of America: 61 speciesKazakhstan: 13 speciesUzbekistan: 10 speciesPapua New Guinea: 11 speciesIndonesia: 26 speciesArgentina: 22 speciesChile: 18 speciesDem. Rep. Congo: 21 speciesSomalia: 13 speciesKenya: 20 speciesSudan: 21 speciesChad: 12 speciesHaiti: 9 speciesDominican Rep.: 10 speciesRussia: 32 speciesBahamas: 12 speciesFalkland Is.: 5 speciesNorway: 26 speciesGreenland: 14 speciesFr. S. Antarctic Lands: 15 speciesTimor-Leste: 5 speciesSouth Africa: 35 speciesLesotho: 6 speciesMexico: 28 speciesUruguay: 13 speciesBrazil: 31 speciesBolivia: 9 speciesPeru: 17 speciesColombia: 19 speciesPanama: 18 speciesCosta Rica: 19 speciesNicaragua: 13 speciesHonduras: 12 speciesEl Salvador: 12 speciesGuatemala: 13 speciesBelize: 16 speciesVenezuela: 15 speciesGuyana: 8 speciesSuriname: 12 speciesFrance: 45 speciesEcuador: 18 speciesPuerto Rico: 13 speciesJamaica: 10 speciesCuba: 14 speciesZimbabwe: 14 speciesBotswana: 12 speciesNamibia: 33 speciesSenegal: 21 speciesMali: 11 speciesMauritania: 7 speciesBenin: 17 speciesNiger: 9 speciesNigeria: 21 speciesCameroon: 14 speciesTogo: 7 speciesGhana: 14 speciesCôte d'Ivoire: 17 speciesGuinea: 11 speciesGuinea-Bissau: 8 speciesLiberia: 12 speciesSierra Leone: 12 speciesBurkina Faso: 6 speciesCentral African Rep.: 12 speciesCongo: 10 speciesGabon: 11 speciesEq. Guinea: 13 speciesZambia: 12 speciesMalawi: 12 speciesMozambique: 15 specieseSwatini: 8 speciesAngola: 14 speciesBurundi: 8 speciesIsrael: 26 speciesLebanon: 16 speciesMadagascar: 14 speciesPalestine: 11 speciesGambia: 9 speciesTunisia: 14 speciesAlgeria: 19 speciesJordan: 13 speciesUnited Arab Emirates: 13 speciesQatar: 9 speciesKuwait: 10 speciesIraq: 13 speciesOman: 16 speciesVanuatu: 8 speciesCambodia: 8 speciesThailand: 22 speciesLaos: 8 speciesMyanmar: 13 speciesVietnam: 19 speciesNorth Korea: 4 speciesSouth Korea: 15 speciesMongolia: 12 speciesIndia: 33 speciesBangladesh: 12 speciesBhutan: 9 speciesNepal: 12 speciesPakistan: 16 speciesAfghanistan: 11 speciesTajikistan: 9 speciesKyrgyzstan: 9 speciesTurkmenistan: 7 speciesIran: 20 speciesSyria: 15 speciesArmenia: 13 speciesSweden: 36 speciesBelarus: 15 speciesUkraine: 24 speciesPoland: 25 speciesAustria: 22 speciesHungary: 18 speciesMoldova: 14 speciesRomania: 18 speciesLithuania: 18 speciesLatvia: 18 speciesEstonia: 23 speciesGermany: 51 speciesBulgaria: 20 speciesGreece: 21 speciesTurkey: 23 speciesAlbania: 15 speciesCroatia: 20 speciesSwitzerland: 20 speciesLuxembourg: 19 speciesBelgium: 32 speciesNetherlands: 42 speciesPortugal: 32 speciesSpain: 36 speciesIreland: 26 speciesNew Caledonia: 17 speciesSolomon Is.: 8 speciesNew Zealand: 23 speciesAustralia: 36 speciesSri Lanka: 12 speciesChina: 24 speciesTaiwan: 18 speciesItaly: 28 speciesDenmark: 40 speciesUnited Kingdom: 43 speciesIceland: 16 speciesAzerbaijan: 10 speciesGeorgia: 16 speciesPhilippines: 20 speciesMalaysia: 17 speciesBrunei: 5 speciesSlovenia: 18 speciesFinland: 28 speciesSlovakia: 17 speciesCzechia: 24 speciesEritrea: 7 speciesJapan: 49 speciesParaguay: 7 speciesYemen: 14 speciesSaudi Arabia: 16 speciesCyprus: 13 speciesMorocco: 23 speciesEgypt: 23 speciesLibya: 9 speciesEthiopia: 12 speciesDjibouti: 6 speciesUganda: 14 speciesRwanda: 11 speciesBosnia and Herz.: 13 speciesMacedonia: 14 speciesSerbia: 16 speciesMontenegro: 17 speciesTrinidad and Tobago: 11 speciesS. Sudan: 10 species
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species per country · small islands are not drawn at this scale

Which well-known animals are recorded in Belize?

The most looked-up species with records here.

LC, Least Concern
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Anatidae

LC, Least Concern
Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Bald eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Accipitridae

NT, Near Threatened
Jaguar (Panthera onca)

Jaguar

Panthera onca

Felidae

DD, Data Deficient
Honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Honey bee

Apis mellifera

Apidae

What kinds of animals are recorded in Belize?

  1. Mammals

    grey wolf, jaguar, common bottlenose dolphin, common vampire bat

    4 species

  2. Birds

    mallard, bald eagle, peregrine falcon, scarlet macaw

    4 species

  3. Reptiles

    green turtle

    1 species

  4. Fish

    ocean sunfish, whale shark, giant oceanic manta ray

    3 species

  5. Insects

    honey bee, monarch butterfly

    2 species

  6. Other invertebrates

    common jellyfish, staghorn coral

    2 species

Which threatened animals are recorded in Belize?

Species listed as Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The category is global, not specific to Belize.

Common nameScientific nameFamilyStatusRecords here
Ocean sunfishMola molaMolidaeVulnerable1
Whale sharkRhincodon typusRhincodontidaeEndangered3
Giant oceanic manta rayMobula birostrisMyliobatidaeEndangered2
Staghorn coralAcropora cervicornisAcroporidaeCritically Endangered199

All animals recorded in Belize

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Common nameScientific nameFamilyStatusRecords here
MallardAnas platyrhynchosAnatidaeLeast Concern2
Grey wolfCanis lupusCanidaeLeast Concern44
Bald eagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusAccipitridaeLeast Concern1
Peregrine falconFalco peregrinusFalconidaeLeast Concern3,442
JaguarPanthera oncaFelidaeNear Threatened62
Honey beeApis melliferaApidaeData Deficient42
Green turtleChelonia mydasCheloniidaeLeast Concern15
Monarch butterflyDanaus plexippusNymphalidaeLeast Concern13
Common bottlenose dolphinTursiops truncatusDelphinidaeLeast Concern15
Ocean sunfishMola molaMolidaeVulnerable1
Whale sharkRhincodon typusRhincodontidaeEndangered3
Scarlet macawAra macaoPsittacidaeLeast Concern27
Common jellyfishAurelia auritaUlmaridaeNot recorded4
Common vampire batDesmodus rotundusPhyllostomidaeLeast Concern485
Giant oceanic manta rayMobula birostrisMyliobatidaeEndangered2
Staghorn coralAcropora cervicornisAcroporidaeCritically Endangered199

Method: a species is listed if GBIF holds at least one CC0 or CC BY occurrence record for it in Belize. Zoo animals, escapes and introduced populations are included, and native species nobody has recorded are missing. See the methodology.