Ecuador occupies the ninth place among the countries with the largest number of mammal species. The endemic species alone add up to 38. Besides these, Ecuador has several other species of mammals, distributed throughout the country as follows: Oriental or Amazonian Tropic – 191 species; northwestern tropical humid bio-climatic region – 136 species; southwestern tropical dry bio-climatic region – 116 species; western subtropical region – 110 species; eastern subtropical region – 144 species.  In the temperate regions, we find 57 species in the west and 51 in the east, while the high Andean region has 49 species. There are 12 endemic mammal species on the Galapagos Islands, 24 in the ocean waters and 32 in the waters around the Galapagos Islands.