Biodiversity State In Europe Other
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Biodiversity State In Europe Other
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The abbreviations correspond wiht to the english nomenclature of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), (UICN). EX: extinct; EW: extinct in the wild; CR: critically endangered; EN: endangered; VU: vulnerable; NT: near threatened; LC: least concern; DD: data deficient; NE: not evaluated. E07GA and V07GA are referred to species "in risk" and"vulnerable" accodirng the laws in Galicia (Spain).
| Country of the card | Name |
Latin Name |
Photo |
Description |
Distribution / Habitat |
Category of the risk. Reasons and solutions |
Culinary, medicinal and/or medicinal properties |
Appearance in the Literature and Arts |
| Galicia (Spain) |
Fan mussel
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Atrina fragilis |
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Mollusc bivalve ... | From the British Islands to the Mediterranean Sea. | LC | Edible or alimentary uses. Medicinal. Toxic... | |
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Christella dentata |
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Perennial herbaceous, with creeping rhizome. Fronds from 60 to 115 cm, hairy. Sheet pinnated; pinnae from 15 to 25 peers... |
It appears in teh islands of Great Canary, Tenerife, The Gomera and the Palm (Macoronesic region)... | LC | Edible or alimentary uses. Medicinal. Toxic... | |
| Galicia (Spain) |
Daffodil Jonquils
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Narcissus Cyclamineus |
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The daffodils are bulbous plants, with basal leaves and with thick stems, that have one or several flowers. The flowers possess six petaloid tepals... | Pastures, margins of roads, in fresh and sombre zones... | LC | Pastures, margins of roads, in fresh and sombre zones... | |
| Galicia (Spain) |
Herb of falling in love
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Armeria humilis |
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Plant of branched out stock, of adult with pulvinular aspect. Linear, ciliate, dimorphic leaves, the external ones are flat, the internal narrower, grooved... | Endemism in the massif Xurés-Gerês (Spain - Portugal), with a nearby disjunction in the Serra Amarela (Portugal)... | EN. Risk by the recent releesing of alochthonous goats instead of native subspecies. Endogamy. Forest fires. | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Long-tailed salamander
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Chioglossa lusitanica |
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The salamander lon-tailed is an elegant slim animal with a very long body. Its previous and later extremities... | There are quotes throughout the province of Asturias, and... it is present in Leon. It appears in Galicia... | LC. The main threats to the species are pollution of streams and the diversion of water for agricultural... |
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| Galicia (Spain) |
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Dryopteris aemula |
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Perennial fern with an erect or ascending rhizome and fronds of to 60 cm of length. The stalk, of the half of long to as long as leaves... | In Azores, Madeira, Canaries, the NW and SW of France, NE of Turkey and areas the United Kingdom. In the Peninsula appears in relictus form in the Cantabrian coast... | LC. It is a protected species, that appears in the Red List. | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Thorny red starfish
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Echinaster sepositus Retzius |
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Star of up to 25 cm of diameter, with a small disc, long arms and of cylindrical section, which it became slim towards the end... | From the Atlantic French coast to the Mediterranean sea. In rocks, sand, up to 200 m of depth. | LC | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Star of Honduras
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Luidia ciliaris |
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Species of leveled body, of to 60 cm of diameter and of reddish or orange coloured coloration by its aboral side. Relatively small disk... | Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In Calvín, J.C. et Al., 1989 and 1998 it is quoted in Island of the Friar. | LC. Its presence in the bottoms of the regions is increasingly more scarce, what does it very vulnerable to the extraction in the networks of fishing... | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Ross Coral
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Pentapora fascialis |
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Erect, flat colonies, which reach 15 - 20 cm of height. They have leaves with zooids for both faces, strongly calcified and irregular... | From W from the British Isles to the Mediterranean Sea. | NE | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Isoetes longissimum |
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Aquatic perennial plant that is developed submerged in channels of rivers. It displays lobulate and robust... | The northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, being exclusively in Galicia... | EN | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Daisy
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Leucanthemum vulgare |
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The flowers have a central button of yellow color, surrounded with white petals... | It is frequent in the fields... | NE | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Pilularia globulifera |
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Small aquatic plant that develops a filiform, crawling and very ramificated rhizome... | The west of Europe. In the Iberian Peninsula the area of extension... | EN | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Common toad
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Bufo bufo |
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He is the most abundant of all the toads that live in Asturias. The pupil is vertical and the eardrum is practically invisible... | It occupies an ample extension, that would include the palearctic zone, extending through all Europe until the Arctic Circle... | LC | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Culcita macrocarpa |
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He is the most abundant of all the toads that live in Asturias. The pupil is vertical and the eardrum is practically invisible... | It occupies an ample extension, that would include the palearctic zone, extending through all Europe until the Arctic Circle... | NE | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Phytolacca americana L. |
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Original species of America, has been naturalized... It is a grass that it can reach three meters... | Fields of grass, margins of ways, in shaded and fresh zones. | LC | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Dryopteris guanchica |
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Fronds arranged in dense clump, of (40 50-80 (140) cm of length; petiole 2/3-1/2 of the frond, thin, yellowish chestnut.. | Paleomediterranean relicto is present in some macaronesican islands, northwest and west of the Iberian Peninsula (Galicia and Portugal)... | LC | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Armeria pubigera |
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Perennial cesspitous herbaceous or subarbustiva plant. It has a woody little branched out stock and flowery stems... | Widely distributed by the north hemisphere and the southern end of South America. In Spain on the coast to the north of the river Duero... | NT | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Gall oak
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Quercus faginea |
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Tree that can reach 20 meters in height, with a very rough greyish-brownish or brownish bark, with surperficial cracks... | The Iberian Peninsula and north of Africa. Forming piornals in the altimountain zones over the level of the wood of oaks. | LC | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
Herb of falling in love
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Armeria maritima |
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Perennial herbaceous. Form of compact small pillow. Height: 20-30 cm. The leaves are always with a green intense color, they are very narrow and linear... | Light: The full sun. Suitable plant for culturing in the Mediterranean basin in sandy areas, with very decorative elongated and narrow leaves. | CR | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Armeria merinoi |
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Vivacious plant of basal, linear or sublinear, flat leaves. Stems of 15-18 cm... | Its populations turn out to be tied to the serpentinic outcrop of Serra do Careón, in Melide's and Toques’ districts (A Corunna)... | CR | ||
| Galicia (Spain) |
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Armeria rothmaleri |
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Perennial grass, with branched stock that manages to form bulky lawns. Lanceolate leaves -3 to 15 mm... | Cracks of limy rocky places and lawns in landings, with something of soil and accumulation of organic matter... | VU | ||
