Animals in Costa Rica

Animals in Costa Rica

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Even-toed ungulates in Costa Rica

Collared peccary
White-tailed deer
Red brocket

Carnivores in Costa Rica

Hooded skunk
Eastern spotted skunk
Greater grison
Tayra
Long-tailed weasel
La plata otter
Kinkajou
Coatimundi
Crab-eating raccoon
Northern raccoon
Gray fox
Bushy-tailed olingo
Harris's olingo
Central american cacomistle
American jackal
Eyra cat
Jaguar
Ocelot
Little spotted cat
Margay
Amazonian hog-nosed skunk

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales in Costa Rica

Atlantic dolphin
Killer whale
Blainville's beaked whale
Lesser beaked whale
Pygmy killer whale
Grey dolphin
Melon-headed whale
Pygmy sperm whale
Bridled dolphin
Fraser's dolphin
Atlantic spinner dolphin
Euphrosyne dolphin
Long-beaked dolphin
Rough-toothed dolphin

Bats in Costa Rica

Riparian myotis
Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat
Parnell's mustached bat
Mexican funnel-eared bat
Handley's tailless bat
Goldman's nectar bat
Wagner's mustached bat
Common vampire bat
Lesser bulldog bat
Geoffroy's tailless bat
Orange nectar bat
White-winged vampire bat
Brazilian free-tailed bat
Tomes's sword-nosed bat
Northern ghost bat
Greater bulldog bat
Aztec fruit-eating bat
Hairy-legged vampire bat
Spix's disk-winged bat
Long-legged bat
White bat
Brazilian brown bat
Jamaican fruit-eating bat
Macconnell's bat
Argentine brown bat
Great fruit-eating bat
Fringe-lipped bat
Big brown bat
Pygmy fruit-eating bat
Black bonneted bat
Dwarf bonneted bat
Toltec fruit-eating bat
Wagner's bonneted bat
Black-winged little yellow bat
Sanborn's bonneted bat
Gray sac-winged bat
Tent-maiking bat
Proboscis bat
Brown tent-making bat
Hairy big-eared bat
Greater sac-winged bat
Thumbless bat
Striped yellow-eared bat
White-bellied big-eared bat
Lesser sac-winged bat
Commissaris's long-tongued bat
Little yellow-eared bat
Gray long-tongued bat
Great stripe-faced bat
Schmidts's big-eared bat
Pallas's long-tongued bat
Spectral bat
Silky short-tailed bat
Striped hairy-nosed bat
Chestnut short-tailed bat
Seba's short-tailed bat
Black mastiff bat
Greater dog-like bat
Shaggy bat
Bonda mastiff bat
Lesser dog-like bat
Wrinkle-faced bat
Pale-faced bat
Salvin's big-eyed bat
Pallas's mastiff bat
Pale spear-nosed bat
Hairy big-eyed bat
Miller's mastiff bat
Tacarcuna bat
Greater spear-nosed bat
Sinaloan mastiff bat
Southern yellow bat
Heller's broad-nosed bat
Godman's long-tailed bat
Silver-tipped myotis
Greater broad-nosed bat
Big-eared wooly bat
Elegant myotis
Hairy-legged myotis
Little yellow-shouldered bat
Short-eared bat
Chestnut sac-winged bat
Black myotis
Highland yellow-shouldered bat
Davy's naked-backed bat
Montane myotis
Louis's yellow-shouldered bat
Dark long-tongued bat
Big naked-backed bat

American marsupials in Costa Rica

Alston's woolly mouse opossum
Central american woolly opossum
Common opossum
Virginia opossum
Mexican mouse opossum
Brown four-eyed opossum
Water opossum

Hares, pikas, and rabbits in Costa Rica

Dice's cottontail
Forest rabbit
Eastern cottontail

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs in Costa Rica

Primates in Costa Rica

Black-handed spider monkey
Black-crowned central american squirrel monkey
Golden-mantled howling monkey
White-faced capuchin
Geoffroy's tamarin

Rodents in Costa Rica

Spotted paca
Salvin's spiny pocket mouse
Bangs's mountain squirrel
Short-nosed harvest mouse
Chiriqui harvest mouse
Slender harvest mouse
Vesper rat
Mexican harvest mouse
Trinidad arboreal rice rat
Dusky rice rat
Nicaraguan harvest mouse
Fulvous pygmy rice rat
Rodriguez's harvest mouse
Sumichrast's harvest mouse
Chiriqui pocket gopher
Goldman's water mouse
Cherrie's pocket gopher
Watson's climbing rat
Underwood's water mouse
Variable pocket gopher
Tomes's rice rat
Underwood's pocket gopher
Alfaro's rice rat
Bolivar rice rat
Coues's rice rat
Deppe's squirrel
Boquete rice rat
Red-tailed squirrel
Talamancan rice rat
Variegated squirrel
Big-eared climbing rat
Short-tailed cane mouse
Central american dwarf squirrel
Alston's brown mouse
Chiriqui brown mouse
Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse
Alfaro's rice water rat
Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Mexican deer mouse
Harris's rice water rat
Armored rat
Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine
Tome's spiny rat
Central american agouti

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows in Costa Rica

American manatee

Edentates in Costa Rica

Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo

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