Animals of Pernambuco

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...

Tapeti

Sylvilagus brasiliensis

The tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis ) is a species of cottontail rabbit. As traditionally defined, its range extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, but this includes several distinctive population that have since been split into...

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.

Turritopsis nutricula

Turritopsis nutricula is a small hydrozoan that once reaching adulthood, can transfer its cells back to childhood. This adaptive trait likely evolved in order to extend the life of the individual. Several different species of the genus Turritopsis...

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...

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...

Bothrops lutzi

Bothrops lutzi, the Cerrado lancehead, is a species of venomous snake in the family Viperidae. The species is endemic to Brazil.

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).

Thamnodynastes almae

Thamnodynastes almae is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Brazil.

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).

Lysmata wurdemanni

Lysmata wurdemanni, commonly known as the peppermint shrimp, is a species of shrimp.

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...

Aulostomus maculatus

Aulostomus maculatus, the West Atlantic trumpetfish, is a long-bodied fish with an upturned mouth. It often swims vertically while trying to blend with vertical coral, such as sea rods, sea pens, and pipe sponges.

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.

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...

Bahia worm lizard

Leposternon polystegum

The Bahia worm lizard (Leposternon polystegum ) is a worm lizard species in the family Amphisbaenidae. It is found in Brazil.This species demonstrates sexual dimorphism with the males having larger, longer bodies than the females.Its diet generally...

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.

Blackfin snapper

Lutjanus buccanella

The blackfin snapper (Lutjanus buccanella), also known as the blackspot snapper, blackfin red snapper, gun-mouth backfin, gun-mouth snapper, redfish and wrenchman is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae....

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.

Scinax alter

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

Ocean surgeon

Acanthurus bahianus

Ocean surgeon may refer to: Acanthurus bahianus, a fish found off the coast of Brazil. Acanthurus tractus, a fish found in the western Atlantic Ocean, Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

Panopeus herbstii

Panopeus herbstii, also known as the black-fingered mud crab, black-clawed mud crab, Atlantic mud crab or sometimes common mud crab, is a species of true crab, belonging to the infraorder Brachyura, and is the largest of the mud crabs.Panopeus...

Atlantic trumpetfish

Aulostomus strigosus

The Atlantic trumpetfish (Aulostomus strigosus), also referred to as Atlantic coronetfish, is a species of trumpetfish in the family Aulostomidae. It is a tropical marine fish found in shallow coastal waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from...

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...

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.

Acanthurus tractus

Acanthurus tractus, the five-band surgeonfish, ocean surgeon, or ocean surgeonfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Acanthuridae found in the western Atlantic Ocean, Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Until...

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.