Wildlife of Kazakhstan
Appearance
The wildlife of Kazakhstan includes its flora and fauna,[1][2] and their natural habitats.
Fauna
- Argali
- Bactrian camel
- Barbel
- Beluga sturgeon
- Caspian seal
- Caspian Sea wolf
- Central Asian red deer
- Channidae
- Common spoonbill
- Eurasian brown bear
- Goitered gazelle
- Golden eagle
- Gray wolf
- Great bustard
- Great gerbil
- Greater flamingo
- spotted whip snake
- Jerboa
- Moose
- banded Apollo butterfly
- reticulated toad-headed agama lizard
- Russian desman
- Russian tortoise
- Saiga antelope
- Squacco heron
- Steppe eagle
- Sterlet
- Tien Shan dhole
- Brilliant ground agama lizard
- Turkmenian kulan
- Urial
- Desert monitor
- White stork
Felidae
Birds
The avifauna of Kazakhstan includes a total of 513 species, of which 5 are rare or accidental.
Flora
The diversity of a flora of Kazakhstan considerably varies both by structure and number of various systematic taxa of plants, and by geography, in particular, by nature-climatic zones and high-altitude belts. In Kazakhstan there are more than 6,000 species of highest vascular plants, about 5,000 species of mushrooms, 485 species of lichen, and more than 2,010 species of seaweed.
See also
- List of mammals of Kazakhstan
- Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology
References
- ^ a b Geptner, V. G., Sludskij, A. A. (1972). Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo Soiuza. Vysšaia Škola, Moskva. (In Russian; English translation: Heptner, V.G., Sludskii, A. A., Komarov, A., Komorov, N.; Hoffmann, R. S. (1992). Mammals of the Soviet Union. Vol III: Carnivores (Feloidea). Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Washington DC).
- ^ a b Nowell, Kristin; Jackson, Peter (1996). "Panthera Leo" (PDF). Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. pp. 17–21. ISBN 978-2-8317-0045-8.
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