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List of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species

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This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species. Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease.

See also the list of extinct animals of the British Isles.

This list includes the 116 species identified as requiring action plans in the Biodiversity Steering Group's report of December 1995.

Mammals

  • Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia)
  • Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), warm and temperate seas worldwide
  • European (brown) hare (Lepus europaeus), northern, central, and western Europe and western Asia
  • Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), northern Europe and Asia Minor
  • European otter (Lutra lutra lutra), Asia, Africa and Europe
  • Greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinium), Europe, Africa, South Asia and Australia
  • Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), coastal waters in the Northern Hemisphere
  • Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris leucourus), Eurasia (subspecies endemic to Great Britain)
  • Water vole (Arvicola amphibius), Great Britain, northern and central Europe and in parts of Russia
  • European (western) hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

Birds

List of UK BAP priority bird species.[1]

Reptiles[2]

  • Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis), Eurasia
  • Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), most of Europe and eastwards to Mongolia
  • Northern or European adder (Vipera berus), Western Europe and Asia
  • Barred grass snake (Natrix helvetica), England, Wales and mainland Europe
  • Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca), northern and central Europe, Middle East

Amphibians

  • Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus), Europe and parts of Asia
  • Natterjack toad (Bufo calamita), Northern Europe

Fish

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Insects

Ants

Bees

  • Shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum)

Beetles

Butterflies and moths

Crickets

  • European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

Damselflies

Flies

  • Callicera spinolae, a hoverfly
  • Golden hoverfly (Chrysotoxum octomaculatum)
  • Hornet robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis), Southern England and South & West Wales
  • Manx robber fly (Machimus cowini),[4]

Grasshoppers

  • Large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum)

Crustaceans

Molluscs

Gastropods

Freshwater snails:

Land snails:

Bivalves

Other invertebrates

Freshwater:

Marine:

Plants

Trees

Flowering plants

  • Creeping marshwort (Apium repens)
  • Early gentian (Gentianella anglica), endemic
  • Eyebrights (Euphrasia sp.), endemic
  • Fen orchid (Liparis loeselii)
  • Floating water-plantain (Luronium natans)
  • Holly-leaved naiad (Najas marina)
  • Isle of Man cabbage (Coincya monensis), endemic
  • Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus)
  • Lundy cabbage (Coincya wrightii), endemic
  • Mountain scurvy-grass (Cochlearia micacea), probably endemic
  • Norwegian mugwort (Artemisia norvegica)
  • Ribbon-leaved water plantain (Alisma gramineum)
  • Shetland pondweed (Potamogeton rutilus)
  • Shore dock (Rumex rupestris)
  • Slender naiad (Najas flexilis)
  • Star fruit (Damasonium alisma)
  • Three-lobed crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus)
  • Western ramping-fumitory (Fumaria occidentalis), endemic
  • Wild cotoneaster (Cotoneaster cambricus), probably endemic
  • Yellow marsh saxifrage (Saxifraga hirculus)
  • Young's helleborine orchid (Epipactis youngiana), endemic

Fungi

  • Devil's bolete (Boletus satanus)
  • Sandy stilt puffball (Battarraea phalloides)
  • White stalkball (Tulostoma niveum)

Lichens

  • Elm's gyalecta (Gyalecta ulmi)
  • Orange-fruited elm-lichen (Caloplaca luteoalba)
  • Pseudocyphellaria aurata
  • Pseudocyphellaria novegica
  • River jelly lichen (Collema dishotomum)
  • Schismatomma graphidioides
  • Starry breck-lichen (Buellia asterella)
    • morchella

Mosses

  • Cornish path-moss (Ditrichum cornubicum), endemic
  • Derbyshire feather-moss (Thamnobryum angustifolium), endemic
  • Glaucous beard-moss (Didymodon glaucus)
  • Green shield moss (Buxbaumia viridis)
  • Slender green feather-moss (Hamatocaulis vernicosus)
  • Weissia multicapsularis

Liverworts

Stoneworts

  • Mossy stonewort (Chara muscosa), probably extinct

See also

  • List of species and habitats of principal importance in England
  • Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006
  • List of habitats of principal importance in Wales

References

  1. ^ "UK BAP priority bird species". JNCC. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ^ "UK BAP priority herptile species". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  3. ^ "UK BAP priority fish species (excluding purely marine species". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  4. ^ Smart, Malcolm J.; Wright, Richard (2012). "A first record of Machimus cowini (Hobby) (Diptera, Asilidae) on the British mainland". Dipterists Digest. Second Series. Dipterists Forum. 19 (2): 151–154.

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