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Iceland

Europe · Northern Europe

Total Species
837
Threatened
72
CR + EN + VU
Population
341.250
Area
103.000 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 19
Endangered 22
Vulnerable 31
Near Threatened 55
Least Concern 376
Data Deficient 2
Not Evaluated 176
Extinct 13

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 717
Animalia 109
Fungi 7
Chromista 3
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Iceland

Curled Thistle

Carduus crispus

Least Concern

Common Field Horsetail

Equisetum arvense

Least Concern

Wood Horsetail

Equisetum sylvaticum

Near Threatened

Mottled Scouring-Rush

Equisetum variegatum

Least Concern

Pipes

Equisetum fluviatile

Least Concern

Granary book louse

Lepinotus inquilinus

Not Evaluated

Meadow Horsetail

Equisetum pratense

Least Concern

Blue Bottle Fly

Calliphora vomitoria

Least Concern

Dwarf Mallow

Malva pusilla

Vulnerable

European stickseed

Lappula squarrosa

Endangered

Common Hound'S-Tongue

Cynoglossum officinale

Least Concern

Prickly comfrey

Symphytum asperum

Not Evaluated

black rat

Rattus rattus

Extinct

Creeping Fescue

Festuca rubra

Least Concern

Book lice

Lepinotus reticulatus

Not Evaluated

Loose Silky-bent

Apera spica-venti

Least Concern

Granary book louse

Trogium pulsatorium

Not Evaluated

Small Earth Humble-bee

Bombus lucorum

Least Concern

Little Meadow Foxtail

Alopecurus aequalis

Not Evaluated

Pale Green Weevil

Polydrusus impressifrons

Least Concern

Water foxtail

Alopecurus geniculatus

Least Concern

Black-grass

Alopecurus myosuroides

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugifrons

Near Threatened

Garden Bumblebee

Bombus hortorum

Least Concern

muskox

Ovibos moschatus

Not Evaluated

winter moth

Operophtera brumata

Least Concern

brown bent

Agrostis vinealis

Least Concern

slender snake millipede

Boreoiulus tenuis

Least Concern

Creeping bentgrass

Agrostis stolonifera

Least Concern

Colonial bentgrass

Agrostis capillaris

Least Concern

crispate scissurelle

Anatoma crispata

Data Deficient

Mediterranean flour moth

Ephestia kuehniella

Least Concern

Black Bent

Agrostis gigantea

Least Concern

Lesser cowpea weevil

Callosobruchus chinensis

Not Evaluated

Seaside barley

Hordeum marinum

Extinct

Humpbacked minute scavenger beetle

Cartodere nodifer

Least Concern

Small Black Ant

Lasius niger

Least Concern

Castor bean tick

Ixodes ricinus

Not Evaluated

Field Brome

Bromus arvensis

Near Threatened

Lusitanian slug

Arion lusitanicus

Least Concern

Barley Brome

Bromus hordeaceus

Least Concern

Awkward Clusterfly

Pollenia rudis

Least Concern

Brown house moth

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Least Concern

Bronco Grass

Bromus tectorum

Least Concern

Weevil

Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus

Least Concern

Black Marram Weevil

Otiorhynchus atroapterus

Least Concern

Angoumois grain moth

Sitotroga cerealella

Not Evaluated

European Peacock

Aglais io

Least Concern

house mouse

Mus musculus

Least Concern

Large-Neck Clam

Mya arenaria

Vulnerable

Floating Manna Grass

Glyceria fluitans

Least Concern

Red Millet, Smooth Finger-Grass

Digitaria ischaemum

Least Concern

Atlantic Rock Crab

Cancer irroratus

Not Evaluated

Bush Grass

Calamagrostis epigejos

Least Concern

Norwegian Wasp

Dolichovespula norwegica

Least Concern

shallot aphid

Myzus ascalonicus

Not Evaluated

Brown Shrimp

Crangon crangon

Least Concern

Eurasian Woodland Bluegrass

Poa nemoralis

Least Concern

Brassy Willow Beetle

Phratora vitellinae

Least Concern

potato aphid

Macrosiphum euphorbiae

Not Evaluated

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