Country · Oceania
Animals of French Polynesia
4 animals on this site have a range that includes French Polynesia. Each fact file has a map with the whole range.
Status
Class
Diet
Location
4 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
LCReptiles
Green sea turtle
Chelonia mydas
The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.
Living
LCBirds
Red junglefowl
Gallus gallus
The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.
Living
Other countries in Oceania
- American Samoa (1)
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands (51)
- Cook Islands (1)
- Federated States of Micronesia (1)
- Fiji (2)
- Guam (1)
- Kiribati (1)
- Marshall Islands (1)
- New Caledonia (3)
- New Zealand (41)
- Niue (1)
- Norfolk Island (1)
- Northern Mariana Islands (1)
- Palau (1)
- Papua New Guinea (4)
- Samoa (1)
- Solomon Islands (2)
- Tonga (2)
- Tuvalu (1)
- Vanuatu (3)