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Iceland

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
837
Threatened
8
CR + EN + VU
Population
341 250
Area
103 000 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 3
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 4
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 72
Data Deficient 2
Not Evaluated 62
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 717
Animalia 109
Fungi 7
Chromista 3
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Iceland

Tea-Leaf Willow

Salix phylicifolia

Least Concern

Black Vine Weevil

Otiorhynchus sulcatus

Least Concern

yellow monkey-flower

Erythranthe lutea

Not Evaluated

Bronze Ground Beetle

Carabus nemoralis

Least Concern

White-marked spider beetle

Ptinus fur

Least Concern

Common Earwig

Forficula auricularia

Not Evaluated

Narrow-lobed Dandelion

Taraxacum falcatum

Least Concern

Ben Lawes Dandelion

Taraxacum cymbifolium

Not Evaluated

Longbodied cellar spider

Pholcus phalangioides

Least Concern

Bean weevil

Acanthoscelides obtectus

Not Evaluated

Greenland Primrose

Primula egaliksensis

Least Concern

Stiff-leaved Dandelion

Taraxacum stictophyllum

Not Evaluated

Webbing clothes moth

Tineola bisselliella

Least Concern

Western Hawkweed

Hieracium stenopholidium

Not Evaluated

Parallel-leaved Dandelion

Taraxacum xiphoideum

Not Evaluated

Red-fruited Dandelion

Taraxacum rubellum

Not Evaluated

Small-spotted Dandelion

Taraxacum pycnostictum

Not Evaluated

Barn Funnel Weaver

Tegenaria domestica

Least Concern

English Hawkweed

Hieracium anglicum

Not Evaluated

Small-Flowered Winter-Cress

Barbarea stricta

Not Evaluated

Common European Yellowjacket

Vespula vulgaris

Least Concern

Oxlip

Primula elatior

Not Evaluated

Alpine Blue-sow-thistle

Cicerbita alpina

Not Evaluated

Castor bean tick

Ixodes ricinus

Not Evaluated

Scandinavian Small-Reed

Calamagrostis purpurea

Not Evaluated

Slimy Spike

Gomphidius glutinosus

Data Deficient

Greville's Bolete

Suillus grevillei

Least Concern

Larch Knight

Tricholoma psammopus

Least Concern

Slippery Jack

Suillus luteus

Least Concern

False Saffron Milkcap

Lactarius deterrimus

Least Concern

The Granulated Bolete

Suillus granulatus

Least Concern

Jellied Bolete

Suillus flavidus

Critically Endangered

Heterosigma akashiwo

Not Evaluated

Stephanopyxis turris

Not Evaluated

Furunculosis Ulcer Disease

Aeromonas salmonicida

Not Evaluated

Long-Stalked Orache

Atriplex longipes

Endangered

Swedish Goosefoot

Chenopodium suecicum

Least Concern

Balsam Cottonwood

Populus trichocarpa

Not Evaluated

Poppy

Papaver cambricum

Not Evaluated

Alpine Fleabane

Erigeron borealis

Least Concern

Alfilaria

Erodium cicutarium

Least Concern

Melancholy Thistle

Cirsium heterophyllum

Least Concern

Balsam Fir

Abies concolor

Not Evaluated

Spignel

Meum athamanticum

Vulnerable

woolly willow

Salix lanata

Least Concern

blue moor grass

Sesleria caerulea

Critically Endangered

Curlytop Knotweed

Persicaria lapathifolia

Least Concern

Eastern Leopard's-bane

Doronicum columnae

Not Evaluated

Mossy Saxifrage

Saxifraga hypnoides

Not Evaluated

Heath woodrush

Luzula congesta

Least Concern

giant meadowsweet

Filipendula camtschatica

Not Evaluated

Least Water Lily

Nuphar pumila

Least Concern

northern red currant

Ribes spicatum

Least Concern

Forked Spleenwort

Asplenium septentrionale

Critically Endangered

White-spot Purple

Heringocrania unimaculella

Not Evaluated

Metallic Marine Isopod

Idotea metallica

Not Evaluated

eel parasite

Anguillicola crassus

Not Evaluated

Viviparous Fescue

Festuca vivipara

Least Concern

Chickweed Willowherb

Epilobium alsinifolium

Least Concern

Wasp

Ageniaspis fuscicollis

Not Evaluated

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