Animals in Guinea-Bissau
7 mammal species are recorded in Guinea-Bissau in this dataset, 3 of them in a threatened Red List category. Guinea-Bissau sits in Africa, where 267 species are recorded in total. Every species below is listed because the range description of its IUCN Red List assessment names Guinea-Bissau.
They belong to 6 families, the best represented being Cercopithecidae (2), Bovidae (1), Hystricidae (1). By Red List category: 2 Endangered, 1 Vulnerable, 2 Near Threatened, 2 Least Concern.
These counts come from the text of each assessment rather than from an official country checklist, so a species whose assessment names a region without naming Guinea-Bissau is missing here, and a wide-ranging animal is counted in every country it crosses. All 7 of them have a full written profile.
- Species recorded
- 7
- Threatened
- 3
- Continent
- Africa
- Data updated
- August 9, 2026
Conservation status in Guinea-Bissau
The most threatened species in Guinea-Bissau
3 of the 3 species recorded here that the IUCN Red List places in a threatened category — Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered.
The families found in Guinea-Bissau
- Cercopithecidae 2
- Bovidae 1
- Hystricidae 1
- Manidae 1
- Mustelidae 1
- Trichechidae 1
Every species recorded in Guinea-Bissau
All 7 of them, written profiles first.
African Manatee
Trichechus senegalensis
Vulnerable
King Colobus
Colobus polykomos
Endangered
White-bellied Pangolin
Phataginus tricuspis
Endangered
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
Atherurus africanus
Least Concern
African Clawless Otter
Aonyx capensis
Near Threatened
Maxwell's Duiker
Philantomba maxwellii
Least Concern
Spot-nosed Monkey
Cercopithecus petaurista
Near Threatened
Where to go from Guinea-Bissau
The countries in Africa that share the most species with Guinea-Bissau, by number of species recorded in both.
Species data from the IUCN Red List; countries are derived from the range description of each assessment. Last refreshed on August 9, 2026.