The fauna of the Czech Republic includes a wide variety of animal species.
Some species (especially endangered ones) are bred in reserves. Among the rare animals are, for example, eagles, ospreys, bustards, and storks.
Number of species in the Czech Republic There are approximately 40,000 animal species in the Czech Republic.
Protozoa - yes (worldwide ~ 31 000) Porifera - yes Cnidaria / Hydrozoa - 4 Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes / Catenulida, Macrostomida and Neorhabdocoela - 18 Platyhelminthes / Tricladida - 16 Nemertea - 1 Rotifera - probably 500 Gastrotricha - 24 Nematoda - from 501 to 5000 ? molluscs Mollusca - 247 in the wild, and at least 11 species in greenhouses. See List of non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic Annelida - probably 220 including Slovakia Annelida / Aeolosomata and Oligochaeta (water species) - 81 Annelida / leeches Hirudinea - 19. See List of leeches of the Czech Republic Annelida / Lumbricidae - 46 Nematomorpha - few Acanthocephala - yes Tardigrada - 100 spiders Araneae - 849 - see scorpions Scorpiones - 1 Pseudoscorpionida - 25 Opilionida - 31 - see Acarina Acarina / Mesostigmata - yes Acarina / Ixodides - 22 Acarina / Prostigmata - 10 Acarina / Eriophyoidea - yes Acarina (water) - 432 Acarina / Oribatida - 548 crustaceans Crustacea Crustacea / Anostraca - 5 Crustacea / Notostraca - 2 Crustacea / Spinicaudata - 4 Crustacea / Cladocera - 105 Crustacea / Ostracoda - 74 Crustacea / Copepoda - 82 Crustacea / Isopoda / Oniscidea - 52 Crustacea / Isopoda (water) - 2 Crustacea / Amphipoda - 8 Crustacea / Decapoda - 6 Chilopoda - 67 Diplopoda - 65 Protura - 32 Collembola - probably 400 Campodeina and Japygina - 10 insects - Insecta Zygentoma - 4 Ephemeroptera - 97 Odonata - 70 Plecoptera - 80 Blattodea - 5 Mantodea - 1 Ensifera and Caelifera - 93 Dermaptera - 6 Psocoptera - 70 Thysanoptera - 230 Heteroptera (land species) - 790 Heteroptera (water species) - 60 Auchenorrhyncha - 533 Sternorrhyncha / Psyllinea - 116 Sternorrhyncha / Aleyrodinea - 20 Sternorrhyncha / Aphidinea - 689 Sternorrhyncha / Coccinea - 140 Trichoptera - 239 Mecoptera - 9 Neuroptera (land species) - 82 Neuroptera (water species) - 3 Raphidioptera - 10 Megaloptera - 3 Lepidoptera - 3200 - see List of Lepidoptera of the Czech Republic Lepidoptera (water species) - 6 Diptera - 6500 including Slovakia Hymenoptera - ?
vertebrates - altogether probably 550 species Cyclostomata - 3 fishes - probably 65 - see :cs:seznam ryb v Česku amphibians - about 20 reptiles - about 12 see List of herpetofauna of the Czech Republic birds - 415 - see List of birds of the Czech Republic mammals - about 100 - see List of mammals of the Czech Republic, :cs:seznam netopýrů v Česku
See also List of mammals of the Czech Republic List of birds of the Czech Republic List of leeches of the Czech Republic List of non-marine molluscs of the Czech Republic List of Lepidoptera of the Czech Republic List of herpetofauna of the Czech Republic
References
Optarný E. (1999) Zoogeografie. - Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc, 191 pp., (in Czech)
External links checklists at BioLib https://www.biolib.cz/cz/checklistsspec Šefrová H. & Laštůvka Z. (2005) "Catalogue of alien animal species in the Czech Republic". Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., Brno, 53 (4): 151–170.