Animals of Alagoas

Common Marmoset

Callithrix jacchus

The Common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is a unique New World Monkey with a rather unusual appearance and a number of special adaptations. Marmosets have an arboreal locomotion similar to squirrels. They can hang onto trees vertically leap between...

Brazilian Three-Banded Armadillo

Tolypeutes tricinctus

The Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus ) is an armadillo species endemic to eastern Brazil, where it is known as tatu-bola (Portuguese pronunciation: , lit. ball armadillo). It is one of only two species of armadillo that can...

Red-handed howler

Alouatta belzebul

The red-handed howler (Alouatta belzebul ) is a vulnerable species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to Brazil, found in the southeastern Amazon and disjunctly in the Atlantic Forest between Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.

Brazilian galliwasp

Diploglossus lessonae

The Brazilian galliwasp (Diploglossus lessonae ) is a carnivorous species of lizard endemic to northeastern Brazil. It is known in Brazil as the “Calango Coral” or “Calango Liso”

Cardisoma guanhumi

Cardisoma guanhumi, also known as the blue land crab or great land crab, is a species of land crab found in tropical and subtopical estuaries and other maritime areas of land along the Atlantic coast of the Americas from Brazil and Colombia, through...

Atlantic ghost crab

Ocypode quadrata

The Atlantic ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata, is a species of ghost crab. It is a common species along the Atlantic coast of the United States, where it is the only species of ghost crab; its range of distribution extends from its northernmost reach on...

Cubera snapper

Lutjanus cyanopterus

The cubera snapper (Lutjanus cyanopterus), also known as the Cuban snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean. It is a commercially important species and...

Aratus pisonii

Aratus pisonii, commonly known as the mangrove tree crab, is a species of crab which lives in mangrove trees in tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas, from Florida to Brazil on the Atlantic coast. A.pacificus occurs from Nicaragua to Peru...

Oreaster reticulatus

Oreaster reticulatus, commonly known as the red cushion sea star or the West Indian sea star, is a species of marine invertebrate, a starfish in the family Oreasteridae. It is found in shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean...

Pygocentrus piraya

Pygocentrus piraya, often called the piraya piranha or San Francisco piranha, and sometimes sold as the man-eating piranha, is a large, aggressive piranha from the São Francisco River basin in Brazil.

Tripneustes ventricosus

Tripneustes ventricosus, commonly called the West Indian sea egg or white sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin. It is common in the Caribbean Sea, the Bahamas and Florida and may be found at depths of less than 10 metres (33 ft).

Gymnodactylus darwinii

Gymnodactylus darwinii is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Brazil.

Scinax eurydice

Scinax eurydice is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.It is endemic to Brazil.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded...

Meridian gecko

Coleodactylus meridionalis

The meridian gecko (Coleodactylus meridionalis ) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Brazil.

White mullet

Mugil curema

The white mullet or silver mullet (Mugil curema) is a tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mugilidae. It is commonly about 30 cm (12 in) long.Note that silver mullet is also a common name used for fantail mullet (Mugil trichodon).

Allobates olfersioides

Allobates olfersioides (common name: Rio rocket frog) is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae. It is endemic to the coastal regions of the Atlantic Forest biome of eastern Brazil.This formerly very common species has recently declined and is...

Dendropsophus elegans

Dendropsophus elegans is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.It is endemic to Brazil.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or...

Amaral's Brazilian gecko

Hemidactylus brasiliana

Amaral's Brazilian gecko (Hemidactylus brasilianus ) is a species of nocturnal geckos from the arid Jalapão Region, Minas Gerais/Bahia (Brazil). It is a bluish-gray, oviparous tree-dwelling species, feeding on herbivorous insects and other...

Slender seahorse

Hippocampus reidi

The slender seahorse or longsnout seahorse (Hippocampus reidi) is a species of fish in the family Syngnathidae that usually inhabits subtropical regions.

Mellita quinquiesperforata

Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske, 1778) is a tropical species of sand dollar, a flat, round marine animal related to sea urchins, starfish, and other echinoderms. They can be found along the eastern coast of the United States and the coast of...

Red cornetfish

Fistularia petimba

The red cornetfish (Fistularia petimba), also known as the rough flutemouth, is a cornetfish of the family Fistulariidae, found in subtropical and tropical oceans worldwide, at depths between 10 m (33 ft) and 200 metres (660 ft). They are up to 2 m...

Marbled grouper

Dermatolepis inermis

The marbled grouper (Dermatolepis inermis), donkey fish, mutton hamlet, rockhind and sicklefish grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes...

Smooth butterfly ray

Gymnura micrura

The smooth butterfly ray (Gymnura micrura) is a species of cartilaginous fish in the family Gymnuridae. It is a member of the order Myliobatiformes, which contains 10 total families. Its natural habitats are shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds,...

Peraiba gecko

Phyllopezus periosus

The Paraíba gecko (Phyllopezus periosus ), also called commonly the Peraiba gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Brazil.

Leptodactylus troglodytes

Leptodactylus troglodytes (common names: Pernambuco white-lipped frog, hole-dwelling thin-toed frog, sibilator frog) is a species of frogs in the family Leptodactylidae. It is endemic to northeastern Brazil and occurs from northern Minas Gerais and...

Pernambuco worm snake

Amerotyphlops paucisquamus

The Pernambuco worm snake (Amerotyphlops paucisquamus ) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.

Rhithropanopeus

Rhithropanopeus harrisii

Rhithropanopeus harrisii (common names include the Zuiderzee crab, dwarf crab, estuarine mud crab, Harris mud crab, white-fingered mud crab, and white-tipped mud crab) is a small omnivorous crab native to Atlantic coasts of the Americas, from New...

Scinax alter

Scinax alter, the Crubixa snouted treefrog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae endemic to Brazil.

Fistularia tabacaria

Fistularia tabacaria, the cornetfish, blue-spotted cornetfish, tobacco trumpetfish or unarmed trumpetfish, is a species of cornetfish found along the Atlantic coasts of the Americas and in the central Atlantic off West Africa and the Macaronesian...

Linckia guildingi

Linckia guildingi, also called the common comet star, Guilding's sea star or the green Linckia, is a species of sea star reported from the shallow waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Vanzosaura multiscutata

Vanzosaura multiscutata is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Brazil.

Holothuria parvula

Holothuria parvula, the golden sea cucumber, is a species of echinoderm in the class Holothuroidea. It was first described by Emil Selenka in 1867 and has since been placed in the subgenus Platyperona, making its full scientific name Holothuria...

Ophiomastix wendtii

Ophiomastix wendtii, also known by its common name, the red ophiocoma, and formerly as Ophiocoma wendtii, is a species of brittle stars that inhabits coral reefs from Bermuda to Brazil, primarily in the Caribbean sea. These brittle stars have long,...

Ircinia strobilina

Ircinia strobilina is a species of sponge in the family Irciniidae. It is grey or shiny black in colour, with spiny structures (conules) dotting the surface. The spiny structures are interconnected by ridges, though not arranged in an orderly...

Isostichopus badionotus

Isostichopus badionotus, also known as the chocolate chip cucumber or the cookie dough sea cucumber, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Stichopodidae. This common species is found in warm parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

Ophiocoma echinata

Ophiocoma echinata, the spiny ophiocoma, is a species of brittle star belonging to the family Ophiocomidae. It is the type species of the genus Ophiocoma and is found in the tropical west Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Brazilian snapper

Lutjanus alexandrei

The Brazilian snapper, (Lutjanus alexandrei) is a species of snapper native to the tropical waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil.