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Cape Verde - Animals in the Habitats, and Biodiversity
Cape Verde is a island country located in Atlantic Ocean to the west of Senegal and the tropical zone. The following shows the distribution of animals in Cape Verde.
| Cape Verde | |
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Cape Verde regionally extinct in historic age |
 | Marine mammal |
Mediterranean Monk Seal |  | Lizard |
Cape Verde Giant Skink |  | bird |
Great Cormorant ,
Masked Booby |
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Cape Verde extant species |
 | Carnivora |
Slender Mongoose |  | Flamingo |
American Flamingo |  | bird |
Purple Heron ,
Peregrine Falcon ,
Common Buzzard ,
Red Kite ,
Alexander's Swift ,
Iago Sparrow |  | bird (CR) |
Raso Skylark |  | bird (EN) |
Cape Verde Swamp-warbler |  | tree |
Canary Islands Dragon |
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Cape Verde marine extant species |
 | Turtle |
Olive Ridley |  | Frigatebird |
Magnificent Frigatebird |  | seabird |
Cape Verde Shearwater ,
Fea's Petrel ,
Red-billed Tropicbird |  | Ray |
Manta ray ,
Smalltooth sawfish |  | Shark |
Whale shark (12m),
Scalloped hammerhead ,
Great hammerhead ,
Shortfin mako |  | Marlin |
Atlantic sailfish ,
Atlantic Blue Marlin ,
Atlantic White Marlin |  | Tuna |
Northern bluefin tuna |
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