Fauna Wuyi Mountains



punting on river of 9 bends, wuyishan, china.


the fauna of wuyi mountains renowned high diversity, includes many rare , unusual species. in total, approximately 5,000 animal species have been reported area. 475 of these species vertebrates , 4,635 insects. number of vertebrate species divided follows:



forty-nine vertebrate species endemic china , 3 endemic wuyi mountains. latter bird david s parrotbill (neosuthora davidiana), pope s spiny toad (vibrissaphora liui), , bamboo snake pseudoxenodon karlschmidti (family colubridae). other known endangered species in area include south china tiger (panthera tigris amoyensis), clouded leopard (neofelis nebulosa), north china leopard (panthera pardus japonensis), hairy-fronted muntjac (muntiacus crinifrons), sumatran serow (capricornis sumatraensis - goat antelope), cabot s tragopan (tragopan caboti), chinese black-backed pheasant (syrmaticus ellioti), chinese giant salamander (andrias davidianus), , golden kaiser-i-hind (teinopalpus aureus - swallowtail butterfly).







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