PRIORITY SPECIES Species Occurring (Or Known to Have Occurred) in Tayside for Which Either a National Species Action Plan Or Species Statement Has Been Published
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APPENDIX 4 - PRIORITY SPECIES species occurring (or known to have occurred) in Tayside for which either a national Species Action Plan or Species Statement has been published. Vertebrates Vascular Plants Mammal brown hare Lepus europaeus Vascular plant juniper Juniperus communis Mammal European otter Lutra lutra Vascular plant marsh clubmoss Lycopodiella inundata Mammal pipistrelle bat Pipistrellus pipistrellus Vascular plant mountain scurvy-grass Cochlearia micacea Mammal bottle-nosed dolphin Tursiops truncatus Vascular plant Newman’s lady fern Athyrium flexile Mammal harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena Vascular plant oblong woodsia Woodsia ilvensis Mammal minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata Vascular plant pillwort Pilularia globulifera Mammal red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris Vascular plant slender naiad Najas flexilis Mammal water vole Arvicola terrestris Vascular plant small cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum Bird black grouse Tetrao tetrix Vascular plant twinflower Linnaea borealis Bird bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula Vascular plant woolly willow Salix lanata Bird capercaillie Tetrao urogallus Lower Plants Bird common scoter Melanitta nigra Moss pict moss Pictus scoticus Bird corn bunting Miliaria calandra Moss rigid apple moss Bartramia stricta * Bird grey partridge Perdix perdix Moss Scottish beard moss Bryoerythrophyllum Bird linnet Carduelis cannabina caledonicum Bird reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus Moss Matted bryum Bryum calophyllum Bird Scottish crossbill Loxia scotica Moss sea bryum Bryum warneum Bird skylark Alauda arvensis Moss slender green Hamatocaulis vernicosus Bird song thrush Turdus philomelos feather-moss Bird spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata Moss Spruce’s bristle moss Orthotrichum sprucei Bird tree sparrow Passer montanus Liverwort Stabler’s rustwort Marsupella stableri Amphibian great crested newt Triturus cristatus Stonewort slender stonewort Nitella gracilis Fish allis shad Alosa alosa Fungi & Lichens Fish commercial marine fish Fungus blue corky spine fungus Hydnellum caeruleum stocks - cod, hake, herring, Fungus brown corky spine Hydnellum peckii plaice, saithe, sole, whiting 8 fungus Fish common skate Raja batis * Fungus concrescent corky spine Hydnellum concrescens Fish twaite shad Alosa fallax fungus Invertebrates Fungus date-coloured waxcap Hygrocybe spadicea Ant narrow-headed Formica exsecta Fungus drab tooth fungus Bankera fuligineoalba wood ant Fungus goblet scented pine Phellodon tomentosus Ant northern wood ant Formica lugubris fungus Ant Scottish wood ant Formica aquilonia Fungus scaly tooth Sarcodon imbricatus Ant shining guest ant Formicoxenus nitidulus Lichen a lichen Bacidia incompta Bee a mason bee Osmia inermis Lichen a lichen Biatoridium monasteriense Bee a mason bee Osmia parietina Lichen a lichen Gyalideopsis scotica Beetle a diving beetle Hydroporus rufifrons Lichen a lichen Halecania rhypodiza Beetle a leaf beetle Cryptocephalus primarius Lichen a lichen Opegrapha Beetle ten-spotted pot beetle Cryptocephalus paraxanthodes decemmaculatus Lichen ear-lobed dog-lichen Peltigera lepidophora Butterfly northern brown argus Aricia artaxerxes Lichen elm gyalecta Gyalecta ulmi Butterfly pearl-bordered fritillary Boloria euphrosyne Lichen orange fruited elm-lichen Caloplaca luteoalba Fly a cranefly Lipsothrix errans Lichen river jelly lichen Collema dichotomum Fly a cranefly Rhabdomastrix laeta Lichen snow caloplaca Caloplaca nivalis Fly a stiletto fly Spiriverpa lunulata Lichen stump lichen Cladonia botrytes Mollusc a freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera Lichen tree catapyrenium Catapyrenium Mollusc Geyer’s whorl snail Vertigo geyeri psoromoides Mollusc native oyster Ostrea edulis Lichen warty wax lichen Thelenella modesta Mollusc round-mouth whorl snail Vertigo genesii Moth cousin german Paradiarsia sobrina * Species that are possibly extinct in Tayside. Moth northern dart Xestia alpicola alpina Species that have not been recorded in Tayside for at least thirty years have in most cases been omitted from this list. For the majority of these Moth square-spotted clay Xestia rhomboidea * it is unclear whether they still persist and little is known about them. Moth sword grass Xylena exsoleta Vagrant species and rare passage migrants have also been excluded. Spider a spider Clubiona subsultans List prepared by Perth Museum Biological Records Centre. Wasp cuckoo wasp Chrysura hirsuta Based on Leaper, G. (1999) “Biodiversity of Tayside - A Preliminary Assessment of Priority Habitats“ and species and data supplied by SNH Natural Heritage Data Unit. Tayside Biodiversity Partnership.