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List of mammals of Greece

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This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 115 mammal species occurring in Greece. Two of them are endangered, twelve are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.

The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:

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EXExtinctNo reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.
EWExtinct in the wildKnown only to survive in captivity or as a naturalized populations well outside its previous range.
CRCritically endangeredThe species is in imminent risk of extinction in the wild.
ENEndangeredThe species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
VUVulnerableThe species is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
NTNear threatenedThe species does not meet any of the criteria that would categorise it as risking extinction but it is likely to do so in the future.
LCLeast concernThere are no current identifiable risks to the species.
DDData deficientThere is inadequate information to make an assessment of the risks to this species.

Order: [[Rodent]]ia (rodents)

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Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.

Order: [[Lagomorpha]] (lagomorphs)

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The lagomorphs comprise two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas). Though they can resemble rodents, and were classified as a superfamily in that order until the early 20th century, they have since been considered a separate order. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two.

  • Family: Leporidae
  • Genus: Lepus
  • European hare, L. europaeus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{Cite iucn| title=Lepus europaeus |author1=Hacklande, K. |author2= Schai-Braun, S. |name-list-style=amp |year=2019 |page=e.T41280A45187424}}
  • Genus: Oryctolagus
  • European rabbit, O. cuniculus {{IUCN status|EN}} introduced{{cite iucn |title=Oryctolagus cuniculus |year=2019 |author=Villafuerte, R. |author2=Delibes-Mateos, M. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T41291A45189779}}

Order: [[Erinaceomorpha]] (hedgehogs and gymnures)

The order Erinaceomorpha contains a single family, Erinaceidae, which comprise the hedgehogs and gymnures. The hedgehogs are easily recognised by their spines while gymnures look more like large rats.

  • Family: Erinaceidae (hedgehogs)
  • Subfamily: Erinaceinae
  • Genus: Erinaceus
  • Northern white-breasted hedgehog, E. roumanicus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{Cite iucn |title=Erinaceus roumanicus |author=Amori, G. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Hutterer, R. |author3=Kryštufek, B. |author4=Yigit, N. |author5=Mitsain, G. |author6=Palomo, L.J. |date=2016 |page=e.T136344A115206348}}

Order: [[Soricomorpha]] (shrews, moles, and solenodons)

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The "shrew-forms" are insectivorous mammals. The shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice while the moles are stout-bodied burrowers.

Order: [[Chiroptera]] (bats)

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The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals.

  • Family: Pteropodidae (flying foxes, Old World fruit bats)
  • Subfamily: Pteropodinae
  • Genus: Rousettus
  • Egyptian fruit bat, R. aegyptiacus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite journal |last1=Strachinis |first1=I. |last2=Kalaentzis |first2=K. |last3=Katsiyiannis |first3=P. |last4=Kazilas |first4=C. |year=2018 |title=First record of the Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Pteropodidae), from Kastellorizo island, Greece. |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0063/html?lang=en |journal=Mammalia |volume=82 |issue=6 |pages=611–613 |doi=10.1515/mammalia-2017-0063|s2cid=92438382}}
  • Family: Vespertilionidae
  • Subfamily: Myotinae
  • Genus: Myotis
  • Alcathoe bat, M. alcathoe {{IUCN status|DD}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis alcathoe |author1=Hutson, A.M. |author2=Paunović, M. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T136680A518740}}
  • Lesser mouse-eared bat, M. blythii {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis blythii |author1=Juste, J. |author2=Paunović, M. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T14124A22053297}}
  • Bechstein's bat, M. bechsteinii {{IUCN status|NT}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis bechsteinii |author=Paunović, M. |page=e.T14123A22053752 |year=2016}}
  • Brandt's bat, M. brandti {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis brandtii |author=Gazaryan, S. |author2=Kruskop, S.V. |author3=Godlevska, L. |year=2020 |page=e.T85566997A22054468}}
  • Daubenton's bat, M. daubentonii {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis daubentonii |author=Kruskop, S.V. |author2=Godlevska, L. |author3=Bücs, S. |author4=Çoraman, E. |author5=Gazaryan, S. |year=2020 |page=e.T85342710A195858793}}
  • Long-fingered bat, M. capaccinii {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis capaccinii |author=Hutson, A. M. |author2= Spitzenberger, F. |author3=Aulagnier, S. |author4=Juste, J. |author5=Karatas, A. |author6=Palmeirim, J. |author7=Paunovic, M. |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |page=e.T14126A4399043}}
  • Geoffroy's bat, M. emarginatus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis emarginatus |author=Piraccini, R. |page=e.T14129A22051191 |year=2016}}
  • Greater mouse-eared bat, M. myotis {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis myotis |author1=Coroiu, I. |author2=Juste, J. |author3=Paunović, M. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T14133A22051759}}
  • Whiskered bat, M. mystacinus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis mystacinus |author1=Coroiu, I.| year=2016 |page= e.T14134A22052250}}
  • Natterer's bat, M. nattereri {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Myotis nattereri |author=Gazaryan, S. |author2=Kruskop, S.V. |author3=Godlevska, L. |name-list-style=amp |year=2020 |page=e.T85733032A22052584}}
  • Subfamily: Vespertilioninae
  • Genus: Barbastella
  • Western barbastelle, B. barbastellus {{IUCN status|NT}}{{cite iucn |title=Barbastella barbastellus |author=Piraccini, R. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T2553A22029285}}
  • Genus: Eptesicus
  • Anatolian serotine bat, E. anatolicus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Eptesicus anatolicus |author=Bouillard, N. |name-list-style=amp |year=2021 |page=e.T85198368A85199537}}
  • Serotine bat, E. serotinus {{IUCN status|LC}}
  • Genus: Hypsugo
  • Savi's pipistrelle, H. savii {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Hypsugo savii |author=Hutson, A. M. |author2=Spitzenberger, F. |author3=Juste, J. |author4=Aulagnier, S. |author5=Palmeirim, J. |author6=Paunovic, M. |author7=Karatas, A. |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |page=e.T44856A10955205}}
  • Genus: Nyctalus
  • Greater noctule bat, N. lasiopterus {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Nyctalus lasiopterus |author=Hutson, A. M. |author2=Alcaldé, J. T. |author3=Juste, J. |author4=Karataş, A. |author5=Palmeirim, J. |author6=Paunović, M. |year=2010 |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T14918A4471682}}
  • Lesser noctule, N. leisleri {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Nyctalus leisleri |author=Juste, J. |author2=Paunović, M. |year=2016 |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T14919A22016159}}
  • Common noctule, N. noctula {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Nyctalus noctula |author=Csorba, G. |author2=Hutson, A.M. |year=2016 |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T14920A22015682}}
  • Genus: Pipistrellus
  • Nathusius' pipistrelle, P. nathusii {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Pipistrellus nathusii |name-list-style=amp |author=Hutson, A. M. |author2=Spitzenberger, F. |author3=Juste, J. |author4=Aulagnier, S. |author5=Palmeirim, J. |author6=Karatas, A. |author7=Paunovic, M. |year=2010 |page=e.T17316A6966886}}
  • Common pipistrelle, P. pipistrellus {{IUCN status|LC}}
  • Kuhl's pipistrelle, P. kuhlii {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Pipistrellus kuhlii |name-list-style=amp |author=Juste, J |author2=Paunović, M. |year=2016 |page=e.T17314A22132946}}
  • Soprano pipistrelle, P. pygmaeus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Pipistrellus pygmaeus |name-list-style=amp |author=Benda, P. |author2=Coroiu, I. |author3=Paunović, M. |year=2016 |page=e.T136649A21990234}}
  • Hanak's pipistrelle, P. hanaki {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Pipistrellus hanaki |name-list-style=amp |author=Georgiakakis, P. |author2=Cooper-Bohannon, R. |author3=Aulagnier, S. |author4=Palmeirim, J. |year=2020 |page=e.T136209A22011859}}
  • Genus: Plecotus
  • Alpine long-eared bat, P. macrobullaris {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Plecotus macrobullaris |name-list-style=amp |author=Piraccini, R. |year=2016 |page=e.T136229A22002229}}
  • Brown long-eared bat, P. auritus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Plecotus auritus |name-list-style=amp |author=Russo, D. |author2=Cistrone, L. |year=2023 |page=e.T85535522A211015413}}
  • Grey long-eared bat, P. austriacus {{IUCN status|NT}}
  • Mediterranean long-eared bat, P. kolombatovici {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Plecotus kolombatovici |name-list-style=amp |author=Petr, B. |author2=Piraccini, R. |year=2023 |page=e.T216518463A254076042}}
  • Genus: Vespertilio
  • Parti-coloured bat, V. murinus {{IUCN status|LC}}
  • Subfamily: Miniopterinae
  • Genus: Miniopterus
  • Common bent-wing bat, M. schreibersii {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Miniopterus schreibersii |name-list-style=amp |author=Gazaryan, S. |author2=Bücs, S. |author3=Çoraman, E. |year=2020 |page=e.T81633057A151216401}}
  • Family: Molossidae
  • Genus: Tadarida
  • European free-tailed bat, T. teniotis {{IUCN status|LC}}
  • Family: Nycteridae
  • Genus: Nycteris
  • Egyptian slit-faced bat, N. thebaica {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite web |last=Esmailka |first=L. |year=2005 |url=https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Nycteris_thebaica |title=Nycteris thebaica (On-line) |website=Animal Diversity Web |access-date=5 June 2022}}
  • Family: Rhinolophidae
  • Subfamily: Rhinolophinae
  • Genus: Rhinolophus
  • Blasius's horseshoe bat, R. blasii {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |author=Taylor, P. |date=2016 |title=Rhinolophus blasii |volume=2016 |page=e.T19515A21972073 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T19515A21972073.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}
  • Mediterranean horseshoe bat, R. euryale {{IUCN status|NT}}{{cite iucn |title=Rhinolophus euryale |author=Juste, J. |author2=Alcaldé, J. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T19516A21971185 |year=2016}}
  • Greater horseshoe bat, R. ferrumequinum {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Rhinolophus ferrumequinum |author=Piraccini, R. |date=2016 |page=e.T19517A21973253}}
  • Lesser horseshoe bat, R. hipposideros {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Rhinolophus hipposideros |author=Taylor, P. |year=2016 |page=e.T19518A21972794}}
  • Mehely's horseshoe bat, R. mehelyi {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Rhinolophus mehelyi |author=Alcaldé, J. |author2=Benda, P. |author3=Juste, J. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T19519A21974380 |year=2016}}

Order: [[Cetacea]] (whales)

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The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Dolphins are national animal of Greece although cetacean biodiversity in the Mediterranean is not as diverse as in nations facing outer oceans, and the Aegean Sea Greece's coasts are one of the furthermost basin of the inland sea and even less species regularly inhabit comparing to western basin.{{cite journal |author=Frantzis A. |author2=Alexiadou P. |author3=Paximadis G. |author4=Politi E. |author5=Gannier A. |author6=Corsini-Foka M. |year=2003 |title=Current knowledge of the cetacean fauna of the Greek Seas |url=http://cetaceanalliance.org/download/literature/Frantzis_etal_2003.pdf |journal=Journal of Cetacean Research and Management |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=219–232 |publisher=International Whaling Commission}}{{cite journal |author=Frantzis A. |year=2009 |title=Cetaceans in Greece: Present status of knowledge - Technical Report |url=http://ioniandolphinproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Technical-Report-2009-Frantzis.pdf |journal=Initiative for the Conservation of Cetaceans in Greece |pages=1–94 |access-date=2016-04-16}}

Order: [[Carnivora]] (carnivorans)

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There are over 260 carnivore species, the majority of which feed primarily on meat. They have a characteristic skull shape and dentition.

  • Suborder: Feliformia
  • Family: Felidae
  • Subfamily: Felinae
  • Genus: Felis
  • European wildcat, F. silvestris {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Felis silvestris |author=Gerngross, P. |author2=Ambarli, H. |author3=Angelici, F.M. |author4=Anile, S. |author5=Campbell, R. |author6=Ferreras de Andres, P. |author7=Gil-Sanchez, J.M. |author8=Götz, M. |author9=Jerosch, S. |author10=Mengüllüoglu, D. |author11=Monterosso, P. |author12=Zlatanova, D. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T181049859A181050999 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T181049859A181050999.en |date=2022|access-date=3 August 2022}}
  • Genus: Lynx
  • Eurasian lynx, L. lynx {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Lynx lynx |author=Breitenmoser, U. |author2=Breitenmoser-Würsten, C. |author3=Lanz, T. |author4=von Arx, M. |author5=Antonevich, A. |author6=Bao, W. |author7=Avgan, B. |name-list-style=amp |volume=2015 |page=e.T12519A121707666 |year=2015}}
  • Suborder: Caniformia
  • Family: Canidae
  • Genus: Canis
  • Golden jackal, C. aureus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Canis aureus |author=Hoffmann, M. |author2=Arnold, J. |author3=Duckworth, J. W. |author4=Jhala, Y. |author5=Kamler, J. F. |author6=Krofel, M. |year=2018 |page=e.T118264161A46194820}}
  • European jackal, C. a. moreoticus
  • Gray wolf, C. lupus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Canis lupus |author1=Boitani, L. |author2=Phillips, M. |author3=Jhala, Y. |name-list-style=amp |date=2018 |page=e.T3746A119623865}}
  • Eurasian wolf, C. l. lupus
  • Genus: Vulpes
  • Red fox, V. vulpes {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Vulpes vulpes |author=Hoffmann, M. |author2=Sillero-Zubiri, C. |year=2016 |page=e.T23062A46190249}}
  • Family: Ursidae
  • Genus: Ursus
  • Brown bear, U. arctos {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Ursus arctos |author=McLellan, B. N. |author2=Proctor, M. F. |author3=Huber, D. |author4=Michel, S. |name-list-style=amp |date=2017 |page=e.T41688A121229971}}
  • Eurasian brown bear, U. a. arctos
  • Family: Mustelidae
  • Genus: Lutra
  • European otter, L. lutra {{IUCN status|NT}}{{cite iucn |title=Lutra lutra |author=Roos, A. |author2=Loy, A. |author3=de Silva, P. |author4= Hajkova, P. |author5=Zemanová, B. |name-list-style=amp |year=2015 |page=e.T12419A21935287}}
  • Genus: Martes
  • Beech marten, M. foina {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Martes foina |date=2016 |author=Abramov, A.V. |author2=Kranz, A. |author3=Herrero, J. |author4=Krantz, A. |author5=Choudhury, A. |author6=Maran, T. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T29672A45202514}}
  • European pine marten, M. martes {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Martes martes |author=Herrero, J. |name-list-style=amp |author2=Kranz, A. |author3=Skumatov, D. |author4=Abramov, A.V. |author5=Maran, T. |author6=Monakhov, V.G. |page=e.T12848A45199169 |date=2016}}
  • Genus: Meles
  • Caucasian badger, M. canescens {{IUCN status|NE}}
  • Eurasian badger, M. meles {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Meles meles |author=Kranz, A. |author2=Abramov, A. V. |author3= Herrero, J. |author4=Maran, T. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T29673A45203002}}
  • Genus: Mustela
  • Least weasel, M. nivalis {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Mustela nivalis |author=McDonald, R. A. |author2=Abramov, A. V. |author3=Stubbe, M. |author4=Herrero, J. |author5=Maran, T. |author6=Tikhonov, A. |author7=Cavallini, P. |author8=Kranz, A. |author9=Giannatos, G. |author10=Kryštufek, B. |author11=Reid, F. |name-list-style=amp |year=2019 |page=e.T70207409A147993366}}
  • European polecat, M. putorius {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Mustela putorius |author=Skumatov, D. |author2=Abramov, A.V. |author3=Herrero, J. |author4=Kitchener, A. |author5=Maran, T. |author6=Kranz, A.|author7=Sándor, A. |author8=Stubbe, M. |author9=Saveljev, A. |author10=Savour-Soubelet, A. |author11=Guinot-Ghestem, M. |author12=Zuberogoitia, I. |author13=Birks, J.D.S. |author14=Weber, A. |author15=Melisch, R. |author16=Ruette, S. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T41658A45214384}}
  • Genus: Neogale
  • American mink, N. vison {{IUCN status|LC}} introduced{{cite iucn |title=Neovison vison |name-list-style=amp |author1=Reid, F. |author2=Schiaffini, M. |author3=Schipper, J. |page=e.T41661A45214988 |year=2016}}
  • Genus: Vormela
  • Marbled polecat, V. peregusna {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Vormela peregusna |author=Abramov, A.V. |author2=Kranz, A. |author3=Maran, T. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T29680A45203971}}
  • Family: Phocidae
  • Genus: Monachus
  • Mediterranean monk seal, M. monachus {{IUCN status|VU}}{{cite iucn |title=Monachus monachus |author1=Karamanlidis, A.A. |author2=Dendrinos, P. |author3=Fernandez de Larrinoa, P. |author4=Kıraç, C.O. |author5=Nicolaou, H. |author6=Pires, R. |name-list-style=amp |year=2023 |page=e.T13653A238637039}}

Order: [[Artiodactyla]] (even-toed ungulates)

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The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.

  • Family: Cervidae (deer)
  • Subfamily: Cervinae
  • Genus: Cervus
  • Red deer, C. elaphus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{Cite iucn |title=Cervus elaphus |author=Lovari, S. |author2=Lorenzini, R. |author3=Masseti, M. |author4=Pereladova, O. |author5=Carden, R.F. |author6=Brook, S.M. |author7=Mattioli, S. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T55997072A142404453 |year=2018}}
  • European fallow deer, D. dama {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Dama dama |author=Masseti, M. |author2=Mertzanidou, D. |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |page=e.T42188A10656554}}
  • Subfamily: Capreolinae
  • Genus: Capreolus
  • Roe deer, C. capreolus {{IUCN status|LC}}{{cite iucn |title=Capreolus capreolus |author=Lovari, S. |author2=Herrero, J. |author3=Masseti, M. |author4=Ambarli, H. |author5=Lorenzini, R. |author6=Giannatos, G. |name-list-style=amp |year=2016 |page=e.T42395A22161386}}
  • Family: Bovidae (cattle, antelope, sheep, goats)
  • Subfamily: Caprinae
  • Genus: Rupicapra
  • Chamois, R. rupicapra {{IUCN status|LC}}{{Cite iucn |title=Rupicapra rupicapra |author=Aulagnier, S. |author2=Giannatos, G. |author3=Herrero, J. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T39255A10179647 |date=2008}}
  • Family: Suidae (pigs)
  • Subfamily: Suinae
  • Genus: Sus
  • Wild boar, S. scrofa {{IUCN status|LC}}{{Cite iucn |title=Sus scrofa |name-list-style=amp |author=Keuling, O. |author2=Leus, K. |page=e.T41775A44141833 |date=2019}}

See also

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