Fauna of Madagascar

Fauna of Madagascar
Madagascar. Location.
Continent	Africa
Realm(s)	Afrotropic
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)	Triaenonychidae; Biantidae
Diversity (Project WCO)	57 species (57 endemic)
Countries of Southern Africa	Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland (= Eswatini).

Madagascar is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 kilometres off the coast of East Africa. Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth. The island's diverse ecosystems and unique wildlife are threatened by the encroachment of the rapidly growing human population and other environmental threats.

Madagascar has the 37th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 50 species recorded, all endemic.

This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from Madagascar, repositories of Malagasy Opiliones and authors who worked on Malagasy opilionofauna.

Madagascar is one of the 25 conservation hotspots listed in Myers et al, 2000 (doi:10.1038/35002501).