Fauna in the Czech Republic covers 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, storks, etc. Number of species in the Czech Republic Approximate number of animal species in the Czech Republic is about 40 000 species. Protozoa - yes (worldwide ~ 31 000) Porifera - yes Cnidaria / Hydrozoa - 4 Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes / Catenulida, Macrostomida & 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 & 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 insect 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 -