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Animals of Madagascar
5 animals on this site have a range that includes Madagascar. Each fact file has a map with the whole range.
Status
Class
Diet
Location
5 profiles
VUCrustaceans
Coconut crab
Birgus latro
The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.
Living
LCBirds
Common myna
Acridotheres tristis
The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.
Living
VUMammals
Fossa
Cryptoprocta ferox
The fossa is the largest carnivorous mammal on Madagascar, a cat-like relative of the mongooses that hunts lemurs in the trees.
Living
LCReptiles
Panther chameleon
Furcifer pardalis
The panther chameleon is one of the most colourful lizards in the world.
Living
ENFish
Whale shark
Rhincodon typus
The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.
Living
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- Cameroon (5)
- Central African Republic (7)
- Chad (10)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (5)
- Djibouti (1)
- Egypt (8)
- Eritrea (1)
- Eswatini (1)
- Ethiopia (13)
- Gabon (4)
- Ghana (2)
- Ivory Coast (1)
- Kenya (24)
- Lesotho (1)
- Malawi (7)
- Mali (1)
- Mauritania (3)
- Morocco (10)
- Mozambique (11)
- Namibia (21)
- Niger (12)
- Nigeria (2)
- Republic of the Congo (2)
- Rwanda (5)
- Senegal (5)
- Somalia (1)
- South Africa (46)
- South Sudan (7)
- Sudan (3)
- Tanzania (22)
- The Gambia (1)
- Tunisia (4)
- Uganda (11)
- Western Sahara (3)
- Zambia (14)
- Zimbabwe (17)