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Iran

Asia · Southern Asia

Total Species
184
Threatened
3
CR + EN + VU
Population
83,992,953
Area
1,648,195 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 1
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 1
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 115
Animalia 68
Chromista 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Iran

Leafhopper

Oncopsis flavicollis

Least Concern

Leafhopper

Elymana sulphurella

Least Concern

Leafhopper

Doratura stylata

Least Concern

Leafhopper

Fagocyba cruenta

Least Concern

Leafy spurge

Euphorbia esula

Least Concern

Littlebell

Ipomoea triloba

Least Concern

Littleseed canarygrass

Phalaris minor

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Menzies' fiddleneck

Amsinckia menziesii

Not Evaluated

Mesquite

Prosopis juliflora

Not Evaluated

Mexican fireplant

Euphorbia heterophylla

Not Evaluated

Monkeypod

Pithecellobium dulce

Least Concern

Mulberry

Morus alba

Not Evaluated

New Zealand spinach

Tetragonia tetragonioides

Not Evaluated

nutria

Myocastor coypus

Not Evaluated

Orange wattle

Acacia saligna

Not Evaluated

Panic liverseed grass

Urochloa panicoides

Not Evaluated

Pennyroyal

Mentha pulegium

Critically Endangered

pharaoh ant

Monomorium pharaonis

Not Evaluated

Prostrate knotweed

Polygonum aviculare

Not Evaluated

prune leafhopper

Edwardsiana prunicola

Least Concern

Red Avadavat

Amandava amandava

Least Concern

Redflower ragleaf

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Not Evaluated

Red ironbark

Eucalyptus sideroxylon

Least Concern

Redroot amaranth

Amaranthus retroflexus

Not Evaluated

Red-vented Bulbul

Pycnonotus cafer

Least Concern

Reedbed Plume

Emmelina argoteles

Not Evaluated

rhesus monkey

Macaca mulatta

Least Concern

rose leafhopper

Edwardsiana rosae

Least Concern

Rose Plume

Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla

Least Concern

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Psittacula krameri

Not Evaluated

Royal poinciana

Delonix regia

Least Concern

Sargassum Seaweed

Sargassum fluitans

Not Evaluated

Septicweed

Senna occidentalis

Least Concern

Sessile joyweed

Alternanthera sessilis

Least Concern

Shepherd's purse

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Not Evaluated

Shortpod mustard

Hirschfeldia incana

Not Evaluated

Slender amaranth

Amaranthus viridis

Not Evaluated

Slender oat

Avena barbata

Not Evaluated

Small carpgrass

Arthraxon hispidus

Not Evaluated

Small Plume

Oxyptilus parvidactyla

Least Concern

Spiny Cocklebur

Xanthium spinosum

Not Evaluated

Staggerweed

Stachys arvensis

Vulnerable

sucker upsidedown jellyfish

Cassiopea andromeda

Not Evaluated

Swollen fingergrass

Chloris barbata

Not Evaluated

Syrian Mesquite

Prosopis farcta

Least Concern

The poplar-stem leafhopper

Macropsis graminea

Not Evaluated

Tubificid worm

Branchiura sowerbyi

Not Evaluated

Twin-spot Plume

Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla

Least Concern

Water fern

Azolla filiculoides

Not Evaluated

Waterthyme

Hydrilla verticillata

Not Evaluated

Weeping fig

Ficus benjamina

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Otiorhynchus ligustici

Least Concern

Weevil

Sitona lineatus

Least Concern

Weevil

Sitona cylindricollis

Least Concern

Western Thyme Plume

Merrifieldia tridactyla

Near Threatened

White Plume Moth

Pterophorus pentadactyla

Least Concern

Wild sugarcane

Saccharum spontaneum

Least Concern

wire crabgrass

Digitaria longiflora

Not Evaluated

Woman's tongue

Albizia lebbeck

Not Evaluated

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