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Portugal

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
5298
Threatened
551
CR + EN + VU
Population
10.196.709
Area
92.212 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 136
Endangered 177
Vulnerable 238
Near Threatened 238
Least Concern 1619
Data Deficient 126
Not Evaluated 2468
Extinct 96

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2341
Animalia 1707
Fungi 925
Chromista 293
Protozoa 32

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Portugal

Sally Lightfooth crab

Percnon gibbesi

Not Evaluated

Sally-my-handsome

Carpobrotus acinaciformis

Not Evaluated

Moss Springtail

Neanura muscorum

Not Evaluated

Javanese root-knot nematode

Meloidogyne javanica

Not Evaluated

Cowpat Gem

Cheilymenia granulata

Least Concern

Kobayasiella subtilissima

Not Evaluated

Sand Bittercress

Cardamine parviflora

Vulnerable

Sand Grimmia

Grimmia arenaria

Data Deficient

sand hopper

Talitrus saltator

Data Deficient

Sand Lucerne

Medicago varia

Not Evaluated

Sand timothy

Phleum arenarium

Critically Endangered

Sausage Tree

Kigelia africana

Least Concern

Sawtoothed grain beetle

Oryzaephilus surinamensis

Not Evaluated

Saxifrage pink

Petrorhagia saxifraga

Near Threatened

Intricate Rim-Lichen

Lecanora intricata

Least Concern

Encyonopsis microcephala

Not Evaluated

cushion star

Asterina gibbosa

Not Evaluated

Scaly Earthball

Scleroderma verrucosum

Least Concern

Scarlet Hood

Hygrocybe coccinea

Least Concern

hull-less oat

Avena nuda

Not Evaluated

Narrow-winged Grey

Eudonia angustea

Not Evaluated

Modjadji Cycad

Encephalartos transvenosus

Near Threatened

Hide Beetle

Dermestes maculatus

Not Evaluated

Scrub Gall Oak

Quercus lusitanica

Least Concern

Scurfy Pea

Cullen americanum

Not Evaluated

scurvy-grass

Cochlearia officinalis

Near Threatened

Sea Bindweed

Calystegia soldanella

Near Threatened

sea-buckthorn

Hippophae rhamnoides

Least Concern

sea campion

Silene uniflora

Least Concern

Sea Chickweed

Honckenya peploides

Near Threatened

Sea clover

Trifolium squamosum

Not Evaluated

sea club-rush

Bolboschoenus maritimus

Least Concern

Minute pirate bug

Anthocoris nemorum

Least Concern

Parasitoid wasp

Encarsia formosa

Not Evaluated

monogenean

Dactylogyrus anchoratus

Not Evaluated

sea-holly

Eryngium maritimum

Endangered

Sea potato

Echinocardium cordatum

Least Concern

Sea Purslane

Sesuvium portulacastrum

Least Concern

Sea rush

Juncus maritimus

Endangered

Seashore paspalum

Paspalum vaginatum

Least Concern

Seaside barley

Hordeum marinum

Extinct

Seaside Koniga

Lobularia maritima

Not Evaluated

sea spurge

Euphorbia paralias

Near Threatened

House fly

Neomyia cornicina

Not Evaluated

Marbled cellar spider

Holocnemus pluchei

Not Evaluated

Glass Waterflea

Leptodora kindti

Not Evaluated

sea thread hydroid

Obelia dichotoma

Not Evaluated

Isopod

Trichoniscus pygmaeus

Not Evaluated

Wild service aphid

Dysaphis aucupariae

Not Evaluated

Parasitoid wasp

Coccophagus lycimnia

Not Evaluated

sei whale

Balaenoptera borealis

Endangered

Punctate Corixa

Corixa punctata

Least Concern

Hairy-Eyed Flower Fly

Syrphus torvus

Least Concern

Jersey Mason Bee

Osmia niveata

Extinct

European Drone Fly

Eristalis arbustorum

Least Concern

European Wool Carder Bee

Anthidium manicatum

Least Concern

Lined flat bark beetle

Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Least Concern

Merchant Grain Beetle

Oryzaephilus mercator

Not Evaluated

Darkling beetle

Blaps lethifera

Extinct

Willow bent-wing

Phyllocnistis saligna

Least Concern

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