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Iran

Asia · Southern Asia

Total Species
184
Threatened
6
CR + EN + VU
Population
83 992 953
Area
1 648 195 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 2
Endangered 2
Vulnerable 2
Near Threatened 4
Least Concern 50
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 47
Extinct 2

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 115
Animalia 68
Chromista 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Iran

Bracken

Pteridium aquilinum

Least Concern

Giant hogweed

Heracleum mantegazzianum

Not Evaluated

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Wormwood Plume

Hellinsia lienigianus

Least Concern

Golden-rod Plume

Platyptilia calodactyla

Least Concern

Dusky Plume

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

Endangered

Common Leaf Weevil

Phyllobius pyri

Least Concern

Biennial wormwood

Artemisia biennis

Not Evaluated

Cuman Ragweed

Ambrosia psilostachya

Not Evaluated

Giant Freshwater Prawn

Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Least Concern

Entire-Leaved Morning Glory

Ipomoea hederacea

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Awned Canary-grass

Phalaris paradoxa

Not Evaluated

Brown Plume

Stenoptilia pterodactyla

Least Concern

Garden Pink-sorrel

Oxalis latifolia

Least Concern

Menzies' fiddleneck

Amsinckia menziesii

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Otiorhynchus ligustici

Least Concern

Weevil

Sitona lineatus

Least Concern

Australian Spinach

Chenopodiastrum murale

Critically Endangered

rose leafhopper

Edwardsiana rosae

Least Concern

Bean Broomrape

Orobanche crenata

Not Evaluated

Leafy spurge

Euphorbia esula

Least Concern

floating pennywort

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides

Least Concern

Couchgrass

Elymus repens

Least Concern

Panic liverseed grass

Urochloa panicoides

Not Evaluated

European elm leafhopper

Ribautiana ulmi

Least Concern

Waterthyme

Hydrilla verticillata

Not Evaluated

Leafhopper

Cicadella viridis

Least Concern

White Plume Moth

Pterophorus pentadactyla

Least Concern

pharaoh ant

Monomorium pharaonis

Not Evaluated

estuary ragworm

Hediste diversicolor

Not Evaluated

Wild sugarcane

Saccharum spontaneum

Least Concern

Swollen fingergrass

Chloris barbata

Not Evaluated

Devil's horsewhip

Achyranthes aspera

Not Evaluated

False jagged-ckickweed

Lepyrodiclis holosteoides

Not Evaluated

Brownbeard rice

Oryza rufipogon

Least Concern

Red ironbark

Eucalyptus sideroxylon

Least Concern

Duckweed

Lemna perpusilla

Least Concern

American Comb Jelly

Mnemiopsis leidyi

Not Evaluated

Coatbuttons

Tridax procumbens

Not Evaluated

Chickenspike

Sphenoclea zeylanica

Least Concern

Syrian Mesquite

Prosopis farcta

Least Concern

Chinese freshwater edible crab

Eriocheir sinensis

Not Evaluated

Achicoria azul

Launaea intybacea

Not Evaluated

Redflower ragleaf

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Not Evaluated

Brown Rat

Rattus norvegicus

Least Concern

wire crabgrass

Digitaria longiflora

Not Evaluated

Small carpgrass

Arthraxon hispidus

Not Evaluated

East Asian river prawn

Macrobrachium nipponense

Least Concern

Sargassum Seaweed

Sargassum fluitans

Not Evaluated

Reedbed Plume

Emmelina argoteles

Not Evaluated

Leafhopper

Paramesus major

Not Evaluated

Flor’s leafhopper

Fieberiella florii

Not Evaluated

Beardsley leafhopper

Balclutha saltuella

Not Evaluated

Horehound Plume

Wheeleria spilodactylus

Not Evaluated

sucker upsidedown jellyfish

Cassiopea andromeda

Not Evaluated

Weevil

Sitona cylindricollis

Least Concern

Prostrate knotweed

Polygonum aviculare

Not Evaluated

Leafhopper

Tremulicerus fulgidus

Not Evaluated

Green bristlegrass

Setaria viridis

Near Threatened

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