The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species.
The order Erinaceomorpha contains a single family, Erinaceidae, which comprise the hedgehogs and gymnures.
The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight.
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater.
Dolphins are national animal of Greece although cetacean biodiversity in the Mediterranean is not as diverse as in nations facing outer oceans, and the Aegean Sea Greece's coasts are one of the furthermost basin of the inland sea and even less species regularly inhabit comparing to western basin.