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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

Birds

List of UK BAP priority bird species.

Reptiles

  • 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

Fish

Insects

Ants

  • Black-backed meadow ant (Formica pratensis), possibly extinct
  • Black bog ant (Formica candida)
  • Narrow-headed ant (Formica exsecta)

Bees

  • Shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum)
  • Wool carder bee

Beetles

Butterflies and moths

  • Black hairstreak (Satyrium pruni)
  • Bright wave (Idaea ochrata)
  • Brown hairstreak (Thecla betulae)
  • Chequered skipper (Carterosephalus palaemon)
  • Dingy skipper (Erynnis tages)
  • Duke of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina)
  • Flounced chestnut (Agrochola helvola)
  • Glanville fritillary (Melitaea cinxia)
  • Grayling (Hipparchia semele)
  • Greenweed flat-body moth (Agonopterix atomella), a micro-moth
  • Grey dagger (Acronicta psi)
  • Grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae)
  • Heath fritillary (Mellicta athalia)
  • High brown fritillary (Argynnis adippe)
  • Knot grass (Acronicta rumicis)
  • Large blue (Maculinea arion), endemic subspecies extinct, re-established from Swedish stock
  • Large heath (Coenonympha tullia)
  • Lulworth skipper (Thymelicus acteon)
  • Marsh fritillary (Eurodryas aurinia)
  • Netted carpet moth (Eustroma reticulatum)
  • Northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes)
  • Pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne)
  • Reddish buff (Acosmetia caliginosa)
  • Silver-spotted skipper (Hesperia comma)
  • Silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus)
  • Small blue (Cupido minimus)
  • Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus)
  • Small mountain ringlet (Erebia epiphron)
  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria selene)
  • Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticaria)
  • Speckled footman (Coscinia cribraria)
  • Wall (Lasiommata megera)
  • White admiral (Limenitis camilla)
  • White-letter hairstreak (Satyrium w-album)
  • Wood white (Leptidea sinapis)
  • V-Moth (Macaria wauaria)

Crickets

  • European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

Damselflies

Flies

  • Golden Hoverfly (Callicera spinolae)
  • Broken-banded Wasp-hoverfly (Chrysotoxum octomaculatum)
  • Hornet robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis), Southern England and South & West Wales
  • Manx robber fly (Machimus cowini),

Grasshoppers

  • Large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum)

Crustaceans

Molluscs

Gastropods

Freshwater snails:

  • Glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa)
  • Little whirlpool ram's-horn snail (Anisus vorticulus)
  • Shining ram's-horn snail (Segmentina nitida)

Land snails:

Bivalves
  • Depressed river mussel (Pseudanodonta complanata)
  • Freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera)
  • Fine-lined pea mussel (Pisidium tenuilineatum)

Other invertebrates

Freshwater:

  • Medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis)

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 satanas)
  • 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

  • Atlantic lejeunea (Lejeunea mandonii)
  • Marsh earwort (Jamesoniella undulifolia)
  • Norfolk flapwort (Lophozia rutheana)
  • Petalwort (Petalophyllum ralfsii)
  • Western rustwort (Marsupella profunda)

Stoneworts

  • Mossy stonewort (Chara muscosa), probably extinct

See also

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