Common Diversity

The mundane animals, fungi, microbes, and plants of the Talunese region.

Common Animals

Common amphibians: [common] toad, [italian] cave salamander, [mediterranean] painted frog, alpine newt, olm, pool frog, yellow-bellied toad

Common aquafauna: [common] cuttlefish, [common] octopus, [mediterranean] jellyfish, black sea-urchin, noble pen shell, pacchero, precious coral, ragged sea hare, scribbled nudibranch, sea mouse, spiny spider crab

Common arthropods: [cleopatra] butterfly, [european] hornet, [european] praying mantis, [italian] striped bug, bloody-nosed beetle, carpenter bee, cicada, common pink-barred moth, cuckoo wasp, darkling beetle, field cricket, filifformis beetle, firebug, glow-worm, greater stag beetle, hummingbird hawk-moth, peablue [butterfly], rose chafer, scarlet dragonfly

Common birds: [common] cuckoo, [dalmatian] pelican, [eastern] imperial eagle, [eurasian] golden oriole, [eurasian] goshawk, [eurasian] hobby, [eurasian] hoopoe, [eurasian] jackdaw, [eurasian] jay, [eurasian] magpie, [eurasian] nightjar, [eurasian] sparrowhawk, [eurasian] wren, [eurasian] wryneck, [european] robin, [european] starling, [european] storm-petrel, [european] turtle-dove, [italian] sparrow, [pallas's] sandgrouse, alpine swift, aquatic warbler, arctic loon, barred warbler, bearded reedling, black heron, black stork, black-browed albatross, bobolink, brown-necked raven, calandra lark, carrion crow, coal tit, [common] buzzard, [common] crane, [common] kingfisher, [common] moorhen, cream-colored courser, dunnock, ferruginous duck, glossy ibis, great bustard, great cormorant, great grey shrike, griffon vulture, hawfinch, horned grebe, lesser flamingo, little auk, little crake, little owl, little tern, northern bobwhite, northern fulmar, northern lapwing, northern nutcracker, osprey, pallid harrier, pied avocet, purple heron, red kite, red-billed chough, rook, ruff, sand martin, smew, snow goose, song thrush, sooty falcon, tawny eagle, tundra swan, western barn owl, western capercaillie, whinchat, yellowhammer

Common fish: [eurasian] carp, [european] chub, [italian] bleak, [northern] pike, brook lamprey, lavaret, river trout

Common mammals: [african] wildcat, [common] bottlenose dolphin, [common] pipistrelle, [etruscan] shrew, [eurasian] lynx, [eurasian] water shrew, [european] badger, [european] fallow deer, [european] hippopotamus, [european] jackal, [european] otter, [european] polecat, [european] rabbit, [european] wildcat, [italian] wolf, [marsican] brown bear, [mediterranean] monk seal, [north atlantic] right whale, [roman] mole, [sardinian] dhole, [sardinian] pika, [sardinian] red deer, [southern] mammoth, [west european] hedgehog, alpine ibex, alpine marmot, alpine shrew, arno river dog, aurochs, beech marten, bicolored shrew, black squirrel, brown bear, brown rat, cape hare, cave bear, cave hyena, cave lion, chamois, [common] genet, [common] noctule, [common] shrew, [common] vole, cow, crested porcupine, cryptic myotis, dolphin, donkey, field vole, fin whale, forest dormouse, gray wolf, greater horseshoe bat, grey long-eared bat, hazel dormouse, horse, house mouse, humpback whale, mountain hare, mule, orca, pig, red deer, red fox, red squirrel, roe deer, snow vole, sperm whale, steinboch, stoat, water vole, western barbastelle, whiskered bat, wild boar, wood mouse, woolly rhinoceros

Common mollusks: white garden snail, land slug

Common reptiles: [european] adder, [european] ratsnake, [italian] three-toed skink, [mediterranean] chameleon, [western] green lizard, ceresiosaurus, eudimorphodon, grass snake, green sea turtle, green whip snake, marginated tortoise, saltriovenator, sand lizard, scipionyx, sea turtle, tethyshadros, tree gecko

Fungi

Common fungi: black mold, porcini, white truffle

Microbes

Common diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, dysentary, leprosy, syphilis, tuberculosis, typhus

Plants

Common flowers: alpine forget-me-knot, arnica, bellflower, [etna] broom, caper flower, cherry, cistus, cornflower, crown daisy, cyclamen, edelweiss, field scabious, [mediterranean] heather, [sicilian] milk vetch, myrtle, [italian] orchid, pasqueflower, red poppy, [italian] rockrose, saffron, [sicilian] sainfoin, sea daffodil, sea fennel, sea lavender, spring gentian, sunflower, [mediterranean] thyme, tulip, [sardinian] violet, wild anemone, wild chamomile, wild gladiolus, wild sage, wisteria, wolf's bane, yellow flag iris.

Common trees: [common] beech, [common] hornbeam, [european] spruce, [sicilian] fir, alder, black pine, black poplar, carob tree, cork oak, false medlar, field elm, fig tree, juniper, lemon tree, lingonberry, manna ash, marittime pine, olive tree, stone pine, strawberry tree, sweet chestnut, white willow

Viruses

These are not technically alive.

Common viruses: influenza, measles, smallpox, sweating sickness, yellow fever