Animals in Somalia / Mammals native to Somalia

Mammals native to Somalia

Even-toed ungulates

Desert warthog
Bushpig
Harvey's duiker
Oribi
Common hippopotamus
Bushbuck
Tsessebe
Waterbuck
Lesser kudu
Beira antelope
Greater kudu
Gerenuk
Silver dik-dik
Salt's dik-dik
Kirk's dik-dik
Dorcas gazelle
Grant's gazelle
Speke's gazelle
Common hartebeest
Clarke's gazelle
Grey duiker
African buffalo
Klipspringer
Giraffe
Gemsbok

Carnivores

Bat-eared fox
African lion
Leopard
Striped hyaena
Spotted hyaena
Aardwolf
Serval
Wild cat
Cheetah
Marsh mongoose
Slender mongoose
Desert dwarf mongoose
Common dwarf mongoose
White-tailed mongoose
Banded mongoose
Honey badger
Striped polecat
African civet
Asiatic jackal
Common genet
Side-striped jackal
Black-backed jackal
African caracal

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales

Pygmy sperm whale
Fraser's dolphin
Indo-pacific beaked whale
Pygmy killer whale
Blainville's beaked whale
Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
Chinese white dolphin
Long-beaked dolphin
Rough-toothed dolphin

Bats

Naked-rumped tomb bat
Heart-nosed bat
Egyptian tomb bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Little free-tailed bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Kuhl's pipistrelle
Persian trident bat
East african epauletted fruit bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Yellow-winged bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Eloquent horseshoe bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Dark-winged lesser house bat
African yellow bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Trident bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Hamilton's tomb bat
Mauritian tomb bat

Hyraxes

Bush hyrax
Rock dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Elephant-shrews

Rufous elephant-shrew
Somali elephant shrew

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Burchell's zebra
Grevy's zebra

Pangolins

Primates

Garnett's greater galago
Blue monkey
Hamadryas baboon
Somali galago

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Naked mole rat
Black-tailed gerbil
Phillip's gerbil
Fring-tailed gerbil
Harrington's gerbil
Crested porcupine
Acacia rat
Ochre bush squirrel
Lesser egyptian jerboa
Red bush squirrel
Speke's pectinator
Unstriped ground squirrel
Crested rat
Fiery spiny mouse
Kemp's spiny mouse
Louise's spiny mouse
Mullah spiny mouse
Mearns's pouched mouse
Percival's spiny mouse
Natal multimammate mouse
Wilson's spiny mouse
Berbera gerbil
Somali pygmy gerbil
Rosalinda gerbil
Ammodile
Brockman's gerbil
Delicate mouse
Somalia gerbil
Julian's gerbil
Little red gerbil
Somalian gerbil
East african mole rat
Gray-headed thicket rat

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows

Aardvark

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