List of species occurring in Britain at a single location
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The following is a list of native plant and animal species which are found in Britain, but only at a single location.
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Key
[edit]Key to conservation designations for species:
- RDB - Red Data Book with three subdivisions
- (cr) - critically endangered
- (en) - endangered
- (vu) - vulnerable
- W&CA 8 - Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Key to conservation designations for sites:
Currently found at just a single location
[edit]Non-vascular plants
[edit]Species | Conservation designation(s) of species | Location at which found | Conservation designation(s) of location | Date of discovery at this location | Formerly found elsewhere |
Thamnobryum angustifolium, Derbyshire feathermoss | RDB (CR) | Derbyshire | SSSI | 1886 | No |
Vascular plants
[edit]- This section currently lists non-critical species and critical species in the smaller apomictic genera; many microspecies in the apomictic genera Hieracium (hawkweeds), Rubus (brambles) and Taraxacum (dandelions) are also found at just a single site each.
Species | Conservation designation(s) of species | Location at which found | Conservation designation(s) of location | Date of discovery at this location | Formerly found elsewhere |
Diapensia Diapensia lapponica | RDB (vu), W&CA 8 | Glenfinnan | None | 1951 | No |
Rannoch-rush Scheuchzeria palustris | RDB (vu) | Rannoch Moor | SSSI, NNR | 1910 | Yes |
Least adder's-tongue Ophioglossum lusitanicum |
RDB (vu) | St Agnes, Isles of Scilly | SSSI | 1950 | No |
Lundy cabbage Coincya wrightii | RDB (vu), W&CA 8 | Lundy, Devon | No | ||
Alpine rock-cress Arabis alpina | RDB (vu) | Isle of Skye | No | ||
Bristol rock-cress Arabis scabra | RDB (vu), W&CA 8 | Avon Gorge, Bristol | No | ||
Lady's-slipper Cypripedium calceolus | RDB (cr), W&CA 8 | Wharfedale | Yes | ||
Shetland mouse-ear Cerastium nigrescens | RDB (vu) | Unst, Shetland | 1837 | No | |
Teesdale sandwort Minuartia stricta | Widdybank Fell, Teesdale | No | |||
Wild cotoneaster Cotoneaster cambricus | Great Orme Head | No | |||
Arran whitebeam Sorbus arranensis | Isle of Arran | No | |||
Arran service-tree Sorbus pseudofennica | Isle of Arran | No | |||
Catacol whitebeam Sorbus pseudomeinichii | Isle of Arran | No | |||
Wilmott's whitebeam Sorbus willmottiana | Avon Gorge | No | |||
Bristol whitebeam Sorbus bristoliensis | Avon Gorge | No | |||
The sea-lavender Limonium paradoxum | St David's Head, Pembrokeshire | No | |||
The sea-lavender Limonium transwallianum | Giltar Point, Pembrokeshire | No | |||
The sea-lavender Limonium loganicum | Logan Rock to Carn Les Boel, Cornwall | No | |||
The eyebright Euphrasia campbelliae | Isle of Lewis | No | |||
Wall germander Teucrium chamaedrys | Beachy Head, Sussex | No | |||
Leafless hawk's-beard Crepis praemorsa | Cumbria | No | |||
Wood calamint Clinopodium menthifolium | Isle of Wight | No | |||
Radnor lily Gagea bohemica | Radnorshire | No | |||
Sand crocus Romulea columnae | Dawlish Warren | No | |||
Strapwort Corrigiola litoralis | Slapton Ley, Devon | Yes | |||
Creeping marshwort Apium repens | Port Meadow, Oxford | Yes | |||
Fen ragwort Senecio paludosus | Ely | Yes | |||
Holly-leaved Naiad Najas marina[1] | RDB (vu) | Norfolk Broads | 1883 | Yes (fossil record) | |
Triangular club-rush Scirpus triqueter | Tamar Estuary, Devon | Yes |
Invertebrates
[edit]Species | Conservation designation(s) of species | Location at which found | Conservation designation(s) of location | Date of discovery at this location | Formerly found elsewhere |
Geotomus punctulatus – a shield bug[2] | RDB1 | Whitesand Bay, Sennen, Cornwall | none | 1864[3] | Yes |
Syncopacma suecicella – a micro moth | Kynance Cove, Cornwall | SSSI | 1984[4] | No | |
Common forest looper (Pseudocoremia suavis) | Great Work, near Tregonning Hill, Breage, Cornwall | none | 2007[5] | No | |
Fisher’s estuarine moth (Gortyna borelii lunata) | Hamford Water, northeast Essex | SSSI | |||
Morris's wainscot (Chortodes morrisii morrisii) | west Dorset coast | SSSI | |||
Sphaerius acaroides – a sphaeriusid beetle | Eype Mouth, Dorset | No | |||
Sitona gemellatus – a weevil | Eype Mouth, Dorset | Yes | |||
Prostoma jenningsi – a ribbon worm[6][7] | A lake between Croston and Bretherton, Lancashire | 1967 | No | ||
Trembling sea mat (Victorella pavida)[8] | Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and Species Action Plan | Swanpool, Falmouth | SSSI and LNR | 1968 | Yes |
Megathiris detruncata – a lamp shell[9][10] | 35 fathom mark off Men-a-vaur, Isles of Scilly | 1888 | No | ||
Ivell's sea anemone (Edwardsia ivelli) | Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 | Widewater Lagoon, West Sussex | 1975 | No |
Vertebrates
[edit]Birds
[edit]Species | Conservation designation(s) of species | Location at which found | Conservation designation(s) of location | Date of discovery at this location | Formerly found elsewhere |
Common crane (Grus grus) (see note 1) | RDB | The Norfolk Broads | 1979 | Yes |
Notes
[edit]- Common crane, although occurring in fluctuating numbers as a scarce spring and autumn migrant through Britain, with occasional individuals or pairs wintering or summering, has only established a single breeding population, in the Norfolk Broads (see Cranes in Britain for more details); the species was thought to be quite widespread in the Middle Ages, but the term 'crane' was also often applied to grey heron, making a reliable determination of historical status difficult.
References
[edit]- ^ Handley, R J; Davy, A J (2000). "Discovery of male plants of Najus marina L. (Hydrocharitaceae) in Britain". Watsonia. 23: 331–334.
- ^ Alexander, Keith (2009). In CISFBR (ed.). Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (2nd ed.). Praze-an-Beeble: Croceago Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-901685-01-5.
- ^ Dale, C W (1890). "Additions to list of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Hemiptera". Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 3: 269–70.
- ^ Smith, Frank H N (1997). The Moths and Butterflies of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wallingford: Gem Publishing Company. ISBN 0-906802-07-5.
- ^ James, Tony. "Common Forest Looper Pseudocoremia suavis". UKMoths. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ Ray Gibson & Johnstone O. Young (1971). "Prostoma jenningsi sp. nov., a new British freshwater hoplonemertean". Freshwater Biology. 1 (1): 121–127. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.1971.tb01550.x.
- ^ The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside. "Memorandum submitted by The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside". House of Lords. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
- ^ Gainey Paul (2009). In CISFBR (ed.). Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (2nd ed.). Praze-an-Beeble: Croceago Press. pp. 525–8. ISBN 978-1-901685-01-5.
- ^ Turk, Stella (2009). In CISFBR (ed.). Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (2nd ed.). Praze-an-Beeble: Croceago Press. p. 524. ISBN 978-1-901685-01-5.
- ^ Marshall, James Taylor (1888). "Argiope decollata at Scilly". Journal of Conchology. 5: 361–2.