Checklist of the Mammal Species of Spain - 2025

Checklist Inventory Regional
Latest version published by Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM) on Feb 12, 2026 Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM)
Publication date:
February 12, 2026
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

This checklist presents an updated list of Spanish mammals, covering the country’s mainland territories, archipelagos, Spanish enclaves in North Africa, and Spanish marine demarcations. The explicitly defined inclusion categories and criteria are: i) mammal species with wild populations that breed or complete part of their life cycle within the territories described in the study area; ii) species that meet the previous criterion but are currently extinct, with reliable records of their presence after 1500 CE; and iii) occasional species that reach the study area naturally. Established exclusion categories include: i) domestic species, including those that reproduce naturally in the wild; ii) species that only have captive breeding populations; and iii) introduced or escaped species into the study area that do not currently have wild breeding populations.

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 157 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Román J, Cabezas-León S M, Calzada J, Giménez J, Juste J, Matutano J, Palomo L J, de Paz Ó, Puig-Monserrat X, Rodríguez-Rodríguez E, Rouco C, Saavedra C, Suárez-Bregua P, Tena E (2026). Checklist of the Mammal Species of Spain - 2025. Version 2.0. Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM). Checklist dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/gv3yz6

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9ba7d451-781b-408a-bdb6-ffb5df320bb8.  Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventoryregional

Contacts

Jacinto Román
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC
41092 Sevilla
Sevilla
ES
Silvia María Cabezas-León
  • Originator
Tecnologías y Servicios Agrarios S.A. (TRAGSATEC)
Madrid
Madrid
ES
Javier Calzada
  • Originator
Universidad de Huelva
21071 Huelva
Huelva
ES
Joan Giménez
  • Originator
Instituto Español de Oceanografía - IEO-CSIC
Málaga
Málaga
ES
Javier Juste
  • Originator
Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC
41092 Sevilla
Sevilla
ES
Juan Matutano
  • Originator
Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos - SECEM
41015 Sevilla
Sevilla
ES
L. Javier Palomo
  • Originator
Universidad de Málaga
29071 Málaga
Málaga
ES
Óscar de Paz
  • Originator
Asociación Española para la Conservación y el Estudio de los Murciélago - SECEMU
Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
Xavier Puig-Monserrat
  • Originator
Asociación Española para la Conservación y el Estudio de los Murciélago - SECEMU
Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
Eduardo Rodríguez-Rodríguez
  • Originator
Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos - SECEM
41015 Sevilla
Sevilla
ES
Carlos Rouco
  • Originator
Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla
Sevilla
ES
Camilo Saavedra
  • Originator
Instituto Español de Oceanografía - IEO-CSIC
36390 Vigo
Pontevedra
ES
Paula Suárez-Bregua
  • Originator
Instituto Español de Oceanografía - IEO-CSIC
36390 Vigo
Pontevedra
ES
Elena Tena
  • Originator
Asociación Española para la Conservación y el Estudio de los Murciélago - SECEMU
Barcelona
Barcelona
ES

Geographic Coverage

Spanish mainland territories, archipelagos, Spanish enclaves in North Africa, and Spanish marine demarcations.

Bounding Coordinates South West [24.6, -21.9], North East [46.9, 6.3]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1500-01-01 / 2025-12-31

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Román J, Cabezas-León SM, Calzada J, Giménez J, Juste J, Matutano-Cuenca J, Palomo LJ, de Paz O, Puig-Monserrat X, Rodríguez-Rodríguez EJ, Rouco C, Saavedra C, Suárez-Bregua P, Tena E (2025) An Updated Checklist of the Mammal Species of Spain with Notes on Exclusions, Additions, and Taxonomic Changes. Galemys, 37: 29-61. https://doi.org/10.7325/Galemys.2025.A4

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.15470/gv3yz6
10.15470/zcxp3d
https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=secem-checklist-mammal-es