List of species occurring in Britain at just 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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[edit] Key
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:
[edit] Currently found at just a single location
[edit] Vascular plants
- 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 | Arran | No | |||
| Arran Service-tree Sorbus pseudofennica | Arran | No | |||
| Catacol Whitebeam Sorbus pseudomeinichii | 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-beared Crepis praemorsa | Cumbria | No | |||
| Wood Calamint Clinopodium menthifolium | The 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 | |||
| Triangular Club-rush Scirpus triqueter | Tamar Estuary, Devon | Yes |
[edit] Invertebrates
| Species | Conservation designation(s) of species | Location at which found | Conservation designation(s) of location | Date of discovery at this location | Formerly found elsewhere |
| The sphaeriusid beetle Sphaerius acaroides | Eype Mouth | No | |||
| The weevil Sitona gemellatus | Eype Mouth | Yes | |||
| Fisher’s estuarine moth Gortyna borelii lunata |
Hamford Water, northeast Essex | SSSI | |||
| Morris's Wainscot Photedes morrisii morrissii |
The west Dorset coast | SSSI | |||
| Prostoma jenningsi[1][2] | A lake between Croston and Bretherton, Lancashire | 1967 | No | ||
| Trembling Sea Mat Victorella pavida[3] | Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and Species Action Plan | Swanpool, Falmouth | SSSI and LNR | 1968 | Yes |
| A Lamp Shell Megathiris detruncata[4][5] | 35 fathom mark off Men-a-vaur, Isles of Scilly | 1888 | No |
[edit] Vertebrates
[edit] Birds
| 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 |
[edit] Notes
- Common Crane, although occurring in fluctuating numbers as a scarce spring & 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
[edit] References
- ^ 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. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldsctech/162/162we46.htm. 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.
