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Portugal

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
5298
Threatened
252
CR + EN + VU
Population
10,196,709
Area
92,212 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 81
Endangered 82
Vulnerable 89
Near Threatened 85
Least Concern 655
Data Deficient 68
Not Evaluated 1415
Extinct 50

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2341
Animalia 1707
Fungi 925
Chromista 293
Protozoa 32

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Portugal

Flesh-Pink Truffle

Hydnangium carneum

Not Evaluated

Light brown apple moth

Epiphyas postvittana

Not Evaluated

Sickle Medick

Medicago falcata

Least Concern

Rove beetle

Medon varamontis

Critically Endangered

Ironclad Beetle

Tarphius pomboi

Critically Endangered

four-striped polycera

Polycera quadrilineata

Least Concern

Lemon Day-Lily

Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

Not Evaluated

Fourspot Sedgesitter

Pyrophaena rosarum

Least Concern

lemon-scented fern

Oreopteris limbosperma

Near Threatened

Plaster beetle

Cartodere constricta

Least Concern

Household minute scavenger beetle

Adistemia watsoni

Not Evaluated

Lemonwood

Pittosporum eugenioides

Not Evaluated

Madeira cockroach

Rhyparobia maderae

Not Evaluated

Wavy carpet beetle

Dermestes undulatus

Not Evaluated

Flat grain beetle

Cryptolestes pusillus

Not Evaluated

Leopard Earthball

Scleroderma areolatum

Least Concern

Flesh fly

Sarcophaga africa

Least Concern

Wood gnat

Sylvicola cinctus

Least Concern

European Lobster

Homarus gammarus

Least Concern

Peach scale

Parthenolecanium persicae

Not Evaluated

Large Atlantic Pocket-moss

Fissidens serrulatus

Not Evaluated

lesser butterfly-orchid

Platanthera bifolia

Endangered

Parasitoid wasp

Spalangia nigroaenea

Not Evaluated

Madeiran Land Snail

Leiostyla corneocostata

Vulnerable

Madeiran Land Snail

Leiostyla cassidula

Critically Endangered

Jumping plant lice

Strophingia harteni

Least Concern

Lesser Cachalot

Kogia breviceps

Data Deficient

Lesser Cow-Horn Bog-Moss

Sphagnum inundatum

Least Concern

lesser earwig

Labia minor

Not Evaluated

Winter Gnat

Trichocera annulata

Not Evaluated

Lesser Emperor

Anax parthenope

Not Evaluated

Lesser Featherwort

Plagiochila porelloides

Critically Endangered

Lesser Germanderwort

Riccardia incurvata

Least Concern

lesser glasshouse millipede

Cylindroiulus britannicus

Not Evaluated

Silky White Stain Lichen

Julella sericea

Not Evaluated

Ladybird Beetle

Scymnus suturalis

Least Concern

Lesser Love-Grass

Eragrostis minor

Not Evaluated

lesser marbled fritillary

Brenthis ino

Least Concern

Lesser mealworm

Alphitobius diaperinus

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Aloconota insecta

Least Concern

Fly

Coproica hirtula

Not Evaluated

lesser pocket moss

Fissidens bryoides

Not Evaluated

Lesser Scalewort

Frullania microphylla

Least Concern

long tailed mealybug

Pseudococcus longispinus

Not Evaluated

Lesser Sea-Spurrey

Spergularia marina

Least Concern

Madeira Sword-Fern

Polystichum falcinellum

Near Threatened

Laurel Oak

Quercus imbricaria

Least Concern

lesser skullcap

Scutellaria minor

Least Concern

lesser slippery moss snail

Cochlicopa lubricella

Data Deficient

Lesser Smoothcap

Atrichum angustatum

Vulnerable

Pittosporum pit scale

Planchonia arabidis

Not Evaluated

Wasp

Hemitrichus seniculus

Not Evaluated

Lesser Spotted Fritillary

Melitaea trivia

Least Concern

Lesser Squirrel-tail Moss

Habrodon perpusillus

Endangered

Lesser Star-thistle

Centaurea diluta

Not Evaluated

Lesser swinecress

Lepidium didymum

Not Evaluated

Silverleaf cotoneaster

Cotoneaster pannosus

Not Evaluated

Long-Leaved Thread Moss

Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum

Not Evaluated

Boulder Lichen

Porpidia tuberculosa

Least Concern

18-spot ladybird

Myrrha octodecimguttata

Near Threatened

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