This is a list of the known wild biota

Biota (ecology)

Biota are the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biota of the Earth lives in the biosphere.-See...

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

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Non-native species are marked *, extinct species are marked †. If this status is uncertain the species is also marked ?.

Each listing follows the following format: English Name (where one exists), binomial/trinomial scientific name with authorities for uncommon species, Manx name (where one exists), status.

Salamandridae

Salamandridae

Salamandridae is a family of salamanders consisting of true salamanders and newts. Currently, 74 species have been identified in the northern hemisphere - Europe, Asia, the northern tip of Africa and North America...

 (Salamanders and Newts)

• Great Crested Newt
  Great Crested Newt
  The Great Crested Newt, also called Northern Crested Newt or Warty Newt is a newt in the family Salamandridae, found across Europe and parts of Asia.-Distribution:...
  
   Triturus cristatus (Jolgan-leaghyr-beg) *
• Smooth Newt
  Smooth Newt
  The Smooth Newt, also known as the Common Newt, Lissotriton vulgaris is the most common newt species of the Lissotriton genus of amphibians. L...
  
   Triturus vulgaris (Jolgan-leaghyr-beg) *
• Palmate Newt
  Palmate Newt
  The Palmate Newt is a species of newt found in most of Western Europe, including Great Britain. It is protected by law in all countries where it occurs, and is thought to be extremely rare to endangered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and vulnerable in Spain and Poland but common...
  
   Triturus helveticus (Jolgan-leaghyr-beg) *

Anura (Frogs and Toads)

• Common Toad
  Common Toad
  The common toad or European toad is an amphibian widespread throughout Europe, with the exception of Iceland, Ireland and some Mediterranean islands...
  
   Bufo bufo (Beayf) *
• Common Frog
  Common Frog
  The Common Frog, Rana temporaria also known as the European Common Frog or European Common Brown Frog is found throughout much of Europe as far north as well north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and as far east as the Urals, except for most of Iberia, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans...
  
   Rana temporaria (Rannag)

Gaviidae (Divers)

• Red-throated Diver
  Red-throated Diver
  The Red-throated Loon or Red-throated Diver is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere. It breeds primarily in Arctic regions, and winters in northern coastal waters. It is the most widely distributed member of the loon or diver family. Ranging from in length, the Red-throated...
  
   Gavia stellata
• Black-throated Diver
  Black-throated Diver
  The Black-throated Loon is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere. The species is known as an Arctic Loon in North America and the Black-throated Diver in Eurasia, its current name is a compromise proposed by the International Ornithological Committee.-Taxonomy:The...
  
   Gavia arctica
• Great Northern Diver
  Great Northern Diver
  The Great Northern Loon, Great Northern Diver, or Common Loon , is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds...
  
   Gavia immer

Podicipedidae (Grebes)

• Little Grebe
  Little Grebe
  The Little Grebe , also known as Dabchick, member of the grebe family of water birds. At 23 to 29 cm in length it is the smallest European member of its family. It is commonly found in open bodies of water across most of its range.-Description:The Little Grebe is a small water bird with a pointed...
  
   Tachybaptus ruficollis
• Slavonian Grebe
  Slavonian Grebe
  The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The Slavonian Grebe is an excellent swimmer and diver, and pursues its fish prey underwater...
  
   Podiceps auritus (Eean kereen cleayshagh)

Procellariidae

Procellariidae

The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. This family is part of the bird order Procellariiformes , which also includes the albatrosses, the storm-petrels, and the diving petrels.The procellariids are...

 (Shearwaters)

• Manx Shearwater
  Manx Shearwater
  The Manx Shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx Shearwaters were called Manks Puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters...
  
   Puffinus puffinus (Scraayl)
• Fulmar
  Fulmar
  Fulmars are seabirds of the family Procellariidae. The family consists of two extant species and two that are extinct.-Taxonomy:As members of Procellaridae and then the order Procellariiformes, they share certain traits. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called...
  
   Fulmarus glacialis (Eean croymmagh)

Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants)

• Cormorant
  Cormorant
  The bird family Phalacrocoracidae is represented by some 40 species of cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed recently, and the number of genera is disputed.- Names :...
  
   Phalacrocorax carbo (Fannag)
• Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis (Fannag)

Ardeidae (Egrets and Herons)

• Bittern
  Bittern
  Bitterns are a classification of birds in the heron family, Ardeidae, a family of wading birds. Species named bitterns tend to be the shorter-necked, often more secretive members of this family...
  
   Botaurus stellaris†
• Grey Heron
  Grey Heron
  The Grey Heron , is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in the milder south and west, but many birds retreat in winter from the ice in colder regions...
  
   Ardea cinerea (Coayr ny Hastan)

Anatidae

Anatidae

Anatidae is the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica and on most of the world's islands and island groups...

 (Swans, Geese and Ducks)

• Mute Swan
  Mute Swan
  The Mute Swan is a species of swan, and thus a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, and the far north of Africa. It is also an introduced species in North America, Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less...
  
   Cygnus olor *
• Whooper Swan
  Whooper Swan
  The Whooper Swan , Cygnus cygnus, is a large Northern Hemisphere swan. It is the Eurasian counterpart of the North American Trumpeter Swan. An old name for the Whooper Swan is Elk; it is so called in Francis Willughby and John Ray's Ornithology of 1676.-Description:The Whooper Swan is similar in...
  
   Cygnus cygnus
• Pink-footed Goose
  Pink-footed Goose
  The Pink-footed Goose is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark...
  
   Anser brachyrynchus
• Greylag Goose
  Greylag Goose
  The Greylag Goose , Anser anser, is a bird with a wide range in the Old World. It is the type species of the genus Anser....
  
   Anser anser (Guiy feie)
• Canada Goose
  Canada Goose
  The Canada Goose is a wild goose belonging to the genus Branta, which is native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, having a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brownish-gray body....
  
   Branta canadensis *
• Brent Goose
  Brent Goose
  The Brant or Brent Goose, Branta bernicla, is a species of goose of the genus Branta. The Black Brant is an American subspecies. The specific descriptor bernicla is from the same source as "barnacle" in Barnacle Goose, which looks similar but is not a close relation.-Appearance:The Brant Goose is...
  
   Branta bernicla
• Shelduck
  Shelduck
  The shelducks, genus Tadorna, are a group of large birds in the Tadorninae subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans....
  
   Tadorna tadorna (Thunnag y scape)
• Wigeon
  Wigeon
  The Eurasian Wigeon, also known as Widgeon or Eurasian Widgeon is one of three species of wigeon in the dabbling duck genus Anas. It is common and widespread within its range...
  
   Anas penelope (Thunnag veg feie)
• Gadwall
  Gadwall
  The Gadwall is a common and widespread duck of the family Anatidae.- Description :The Gadwall is 46–56 cm long with a 78–90 cm wingspan. The male is slightly larger than the female, weighing on average 990 g against her 850 g...
  
   Anas strepera (Laagh ghlass)
• Teal
  Common Teal
  The Eurasian Teal or Common Teal is a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Eurasia and migrates south in winter. The Eurasian Teal is often called simply the Teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range...
  
   Anas crecca (Laagh laaghag)
• Mallard
  Mallard
  The Mallard , or Wild Duck , is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand and Australia....
  
   Anus platyrhynchos (Thunnag feie)
• Shoveler
  Shoveler
  The shovelers, formerly known as shovellers, are four species of dabbling ducks with long, broad spatula-shaped beaks:* Red Shoveler, Anas platalea* Cape Shoveler, Anas smithii* Australasian Shoveler, Anas rhynchotis...
  
   Anas clypeata (Thunnag ny sleryst)
• Pochard Aythya ferina (Kione mollagh)
• Tufted Duck
  Tufted Duck
  The Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula, is a medium-sized diving duck with a population of close to one million birds.- Description :The adult male is all black except for white flanks and a blue-grey bill. It has an obvious head tuft that gives the species its name.The adult female is brown with paler...
  
   Aythya fuligula (Thunnag happagh)
• Scaup
  Greater Scaup
  The Greater Scaup , just Scaup in Europe, or colloquially known as "Bluebill", for its bright blue bill, is small compared to other diving ducks, however it is larger than the closely related Lesser Scaup...
  
   Aythya marila (Thunnag varrey)
• Eider
  Eider
  Eiders are large seaducks in the genus Somateria. Steller's Eider, despite its name, is in a different genus.The three extant species all breed in the cooler latitudes of the Northern hemisphere....
  
   Somateria mollissima (Laagh loughlinagh)
• Long-tailed Duck
  Long-tailed Duck
  The Long-tailed Duck or Oldsquaw is a medium-sized sea duck. It is the only living member of its genus, Clangula; this was formerly used for the goldeneyes, with the Long-tailed Duck being placed in Harelda...
  
   Clangula hyemalis (Laagh lheeah)
• Common Scoter
  Common Scoter
  The Common Scoter is a large sea duck, 43-54 cm in length, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia east to the Olenyok River. The American/E Siberian M. americana is sometimes considered a subspecies of M. nigra.It winters further south in temperate zones, on the coasts of Europe as...
  
   Melanitta nigra
• Velvet Scoter
  Velvet Scoter
  The Velvet Scoter , also called a Velvet Duck or whitewing , is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia west of the Yenisey basin. A small, isolated population nests in eastern Turkey...
  
   Melanitta fusca
• Goldeneye
  GoldenEye
  GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...
  
   Bucephala clangula (Laaghag hooillagh)
• Red-breasted Merganser
  Red-breasted Merganser
  The Red-breasted Merganser is a diving duck.-Taxonomy:The Red-breasted Merganser was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae.-Description:...
  
   Mergus serrator (Thunnag cleeau yiarg)
• Goosander Mergus merganser (Laagh eeacklagh)
• Ruddy Duck
  Ruddy Duck
  The Ruddy Duck is a small stiff-tailed duck.Their breeding habitat is marshy lakes and ponds throughout much of North America, and in South America in the Andes. They nest in dense marsh vegetation near water. The female builds her nest out of grass, locating it in tall vegetation to hide it from...
  
   Oxyura jamaicensis *

Accipitridae

Accipitridae

The Accipitridae, one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes , are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They feed on a range of prey items from insects to medium-sized mammals, with a number feeding on carrion and a...

 (Hawks, Eagles, Kites and Harriers)

• Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
• Hen Harrier
  Hen Harrier
  The Hen Harrier or Northern Harrier is a bird of prey. It breeds throughout the northern parts of the northern hemisphere in Canada and the northernmost USA, and in northern Eurasia. This species is polytypic, with two subspecies. Marsh Hawk is a historical name for the American form.It migrates...
  
   Circus cyaneus
• White-tailed Eagle
  White-tailed Eagle
  The White-tailed Eagle , also known as the Sea Eagle, Erne , or White-tailed Sea-eagle, is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which includes other raptors such as hawks, kites, and harriers...
  
   Haliaeetus albicilla†

Falconidae

Falconidae

The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamiles, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets.-Description:Falcons and...

 (Falcons)

• Kestrel
  Kestrel
  The name kestrel, is given to several different members of the falcon genus, Falco. Kestrels are most easily distinguished by their typical hunting behaviour which is to hover at a height of around over open country and swoop down on prey, usually small mammals, lizards or large insects...
  
   Falco tinnunculus
• Merlin
  Merlin (bird)
  The Merlin is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere. A bird of prey once known colloquially as a pigeon hawk in North America, the Merlin breeds in the northern Holarctic; some migrate to subtropical and northern tropical regions in winter.-European and North American...
  
   Falco columbarius
• Peregrine
  Peregrine Falcon
  The Peregrine Falcon , also known as the Peregrine, and historically as the Duck Hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache"...
  
   Falco peregrinus

Phasianidae

Phasianidae

The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...

 (Partridges and Quail)

• Red-legged Partridge
  Red-legged Partridge
  The Red-legged Partridge is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. It is sometimes known as French Partridge, to distinguish it from the Grey or English Partridge....
  
   Alectoris rufa *
• Grey Partridge
  Grey Partridge
  The Grey Partridge, Perdix perdix, also known as the English Partridge, Hungarian Partridge, or Hun, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds...
  
   Perdix perdix (Kiark rennee) *
• Quail
  Quail
  Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally considered in the order Galliformes. Old World quail are found in the family Phasianidae, while New World quail are found in the family Odontophoridae...
  
   Coturnix coturnix (Eean feie)

Tetraonidae (Grouse)

• Black Grouse
  Black Grouse
  The Black Grouse or Blackgame is a large bird in the grouse family. It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal...
  
   Tetrao tetrix†
• Red Grouse
  Red grouse
  The Red Grouse is a medium sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It is usually classified as a subspecies of the Willow Grouse but is sometimes considered to be a separate species Lagopus scoticus...
  
   Lagopus lagopus scoticus† but reintroduced

Rallidae

Rallidae

The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...

 (Rails and Crakes)

• Water Rail
  Water Rail
  The Water Rail is a bird of the rail family which breeds in well-vegetated wetlands across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Northern and eastern populations are migratory, but this species is a permanent resident in the warmer parts of its breeding range...
  
   Rallus aquaticus
• Corncrake Crex crex (Eean raip)
• Coot
  Coot
  Coots are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family Rallidae. They constitute the genus Fulica. Coots have predominantly black plumage, and, unlike many of the rails, they are usually easy to see, often swimming in open water...
  
   Fulica atra

Scolopacidae

Scolopacidae

The sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil...

 (Woodcock and Snipe)

• Woodcock
  Woodcock
  The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into Wallacea...
  
   Scolopax rusticola
• Snipe
  Snipe
  A snipe is any of about 25 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They are characterized by a very long, slender bill and crypsis plumage. The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes Jack Snipe is restricted to Asia and Europe and the...
  
   Gallinago gallinago

Laridae Gulls

• Herring Gull Larsus argentatus (Foillan)
• Great Black-backed Gull
  Great Black-backed Gull
  The Great Black-backed Gull is the largest gull in the world, which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic...
  
   Larsus marinus (Juan mooar)

Alcidae (Auks)

• Great Auk
  Great Auk
  The Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, formerly of the genus Alca, was a large, flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, a group of birds that formerly included one other species of flightless giant auk from the Atlantic Ocean...
  
   Pinguinus impennis†
• Puffin
  Puffin
  Puffins are any of three small species of auk in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among...
  
   Fratercula arctica
• Razorbill
  Razorbill
  The Razorbill is colonial seabird that will only come to land in order to breed. It is the largest living member of the Auk family. This agile bird will choose only one partner for life and females will lay one egg per year. Razorbills will nest along coastal cliffs in enclosed or slightly exposed...
  
   Alca torda

Columbidae (Pigeons)

• Woodpigeon Columba palumbus
• Collared Dove
  Eurasian Collared Dove
  The Eurasian Collared Dove most often simply called the Collared Dove, also sometimes hyphenated as Eurasian Collared-dove is a species of dove native to Asia and Europe, and also recently introduced in North America....
  
   Streptopelia decaocto

Motacillidae

Motacillidae

The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genera and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominately found in Europe, Africa and...

 (Wagtails)

• Grey Wagtail
  Grey Wagtail
  The Grey Wagtail is a small member of the wagtail family, Motacillidae. The species looks similar to the Yellow Wagtail but has the yellow on its underside restricted to the throat and vent. Breeding males have a black throat...
  
   Motacilla cinerea
• Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba yarrellii

Turdidae (Thrushes)

• Robin
  Erithacus
  The robins are small passerine birds comprising the genus Erithacus. They were formerly classed as members of the thrush family, but now considered to be Old World flycatchers of the chat subfamily ....
  
   Erithacus rubecula
• Blackbird Turdus merula (Lhondoo)
• Song Thrush
  Song Thrush
  The Song Thrush is a thrush that breeds across much of Eurasia. It is also known in English dialects as throstle or mavis. It has brown upperparts and black-spotted cream or buff underparts and has three recognised subspecies...
  
   Turdus philomelos

Sylviidae

Sylviidae

Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families...

 (Warblers)

• Willow Warbler
  Willow Warbler
  The Willow Warbler is a very common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia, from Ireland east to the Anadyr River basin in eastern Siberia...
  
   Phylloscopus trochilus
• Goldcrest
  Goldcrest
  The Goldcrest, Regulus regulus, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. Its colourful golden crest feathers gives rise to its English and scientific names, and possibly to it being called the "king of the birds" in European folklore. Several subspecies are recognised across the very...
  
   Regulus regulus

Paridae (Tits)

• Blue Tit
  Blue Tit
  The Blue Tit is a 10.5 to 12 cm long passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate and subarctic Europe and western Asia in deciduous or mixed woodlands...
  
   Parus caeruleus (Drean gorrym)
• Great Tit
  Great Tit
  The Great Tit is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central and Northern Asia, and parts of North Africa in any sort of woodland. It is generally resident, and most Great Tits do not migrate except in extremely...
  
   Parus major (Drean mooar)
• Coal Tit
  Coal Tit
  The Coal Tit, Periparus ater, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common resident breeder throughout temperate to subtropical Eurasia and northern Africa. The Spot-winged Tit The Coal Tit, Periparus ater, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a...
  
   Parus ater (Drean kione doo)
• Long-tailed Tit
  Long-tailed Tit
  The Long-tailed Tit or Long-tailed Bushtit is a common bird found throughout Europe and Asia. There are several extensive accounts of this species, most notably Cramp and Perrins, 1993; Gaston, 1973; and Harrap and Quinn, 1996...
  
   Aegithalos caudatus

Corvidae

Corvidae

Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs and nutcrackers. The common English names used are corvids or the crow family , and there are over 120 species...

 (Corvids)

• Magpie
  Magpie
  Magpies are passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae.In Europe, "magpie" is often used by English speakers as a synonym for the European Magpie, as there are no other magpies in Europe outside Iberia...
  
   Pica pica
• Jackdaw
  Jackdaw
  The Jackdaw , sometimes known as the Eurasian Jackdaw, European Jackdaw or Western Jackdaw, is a passerine bird in the crow family. Found across Europe, western Asia and North Africa, it is mostly sedentary, although northern and eastern populations migrate south in winter. Four subspecies are...
  
   Corvus monedula
• Raven
  Raven
  Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus—but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied...
  
   Corvus corax
• Carrion Crow
  Carrion Crow
  The Carrion Crow is a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family which is native to western Europe and eastern Asia.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Corvus corax
• Hooded Crow
  Hooded Crow
  The Hooded Crow is a Eurasian bird species in the crow genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch Crow, Danish Crow, and Corbie or Grey Crow in Ireland, which is what its Welsh name, Brân Lwyd, translates as...
  
   Corvus cornix
• Chough
  Chough
  The Red-billed Chough or Chough , Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, is a bird in the crow family; it is one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax...
  
   Phyrocorrax phyrocorrax (Caaig)
• Rook
  Rook (bird)
  The Rook is a member of the Corvidae family in the passerine order of birds. Named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering"....
  
   Corvus frugilegus

Fringillidae (Finches)

• Chaffinch
  Chaffinch
  The Chaffinch , also called by a wide variety of other names, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.- Description :...
  
   Fringilla coelebs
• Goldfinch
  Carduelis
  The genus Carduelisis a large group of birds in the finch family Fringillidae. It includes the greenfinches, redpolls, goldfinches, linnets, the twite, and the non-African siskins...
  
   Carduelis chloris
• Greenfinch
  European Greenfinch
  The European Greenfinch, or just Greenfinch, Carduelis chloris, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. The genus Carduelis might be split up and in this case, the greenfinches would be separated in their old genus Chloris again.This bird is widespread throughout Europe, north...
  
   Carduelis chloris

Neuroptera

Neuroptera

The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. The order contains some 6,010 species...

 (Lacewings)

• Chrysops vulgaris
• Chrysops ventralis
• Hemerobius lutescens
• Micromus veriegatus

Trichoptera

Trichoptera

The caddisflies are an order, Trichoptera, of insects with approximately 12,000 described species. Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, they are small moth-like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings...

 (Caddisflies)

• Limnophilus auricula
• Limnophilus flavicornis
• Limnophilus elegans

Odonata

Odonata

Odonata is an order of insects, encompassing dragonflies and damselflies . The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata, but the back-formation odonate is a more correct English name for the group as a whole...

 (Dragonflies)

• Common Hawker
  Common Hawker
  The Common Hawker or Sedge Darner is one of the larger species of hawker dragonflies. It is native to Eurasia and northern North America. The flight period is from June to early October.It is long with a brown body...
  
  Aeshna juncea
• Brown Hawker
  Brown Hawker
  The Brown Hawker is a large dragonfly about long. It is a distinctive species and is easily recognised, even in flight, by its brown body and bronze wings...
  
  Aeshna grandis
• Migrant Hawker
  Migrant Hawker
  The Migrant Hawker is one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. It can be found away from water but for breeding it prefers still or slow-flowing water and can tolerate brackish sites. The flight period is from July to the end of October. A. mixta occurs in North Africa, southern and...
  
  Aeshna mixta
• Common Darter
  Common Darter
  The Common Darter is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae native to Eurasia. It is one of the most common dragonflies in Europe, occurring in a wide variety of water bodies, though with a preference for breeding in still water such as ponds and lakes...
  
  Sympetrum striolatum
• Black Darter
  Black Darter
  The Black Darter or Black Meadowhawk is a dragonfly found in northern Europe, Asia, and North America. At about 30 mm long, it is Britain's smallest resident dragonfly...
  
  Sympetrum danae
• Red-veined Darter
  Red-veined Darter
  The Red-veined Darter is a dragonfly of the genus Sympetrum. It is a common species in southern Europe and from the 1990s onwards has increasingly been found in northwest Europe, including Britain and Ireland. Its name is sometimes spelt fonscolombei instead of fonscolombii but Askew gives the...
  
  Sympetrum fonscolombi
• Ruddy Darter
  Ruddy Darter
  The Ruddy Darter is a European species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae.-Description:The Ruddy Darter attains a wingspan of up to 6 cm. The head, thorax and abdomen of the male are vivid red, while the female is slightly smaller, and is a golden-yellow colour with black markings...
  
  Sympetrum sanguineum
• Four-spotted Chaser
  Four-spotted Chaser
  The Four-spotted Chaser , known in North America as the Four-spotted Skimmer, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae found frequently throughout Europe, Asia, and North America....
  
  Libellula quadrimaculata
• Downy Emerald
  Downy Emerald
  The downy emerald is a species of dragonfly. It is metallic green and bronze in color, and its thorax is coated with fine hairs, hence its name. Like most other emeralds, the downy emerald has bright shiny green eyes...
  
  Cordulia aenea
• Keeled Skimmer
  Keeled Skimmer
  The Keeled Skimmer, Orthetrum coerulescens, is a species of European dragonfly. This species resembles the Black-tailed Skimmer but is slimmer and the male has no black tip. Females and immature males lack the black abdominal pattern...
  
  Orthetrum coerulescens
• Emperor Dragonfly Anax imperator

• Common Blue Damselfly
  Common Blue Damselfly
  The Common Blue Damselfly or Northern Bluet is a European damselfly.The species can reach a length of 32 to 35 mm...
  
  Enallagma cyathigerum
• Blue-tailed Damselfly
  Blue-tailed Damselfly
  The Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura elegans, is a European damselfly.Adult male Blue-tailed Damselflies have a head and thorax patterned with blue and black. They have a largely black abdomen with very narrow pale markings where each segment joins the next...
  
  Ischnura elegans
• Golden-ringed Dragonfly
  Golden-ringed Dragonfly
  The Golden-ringed Dragonfly is a large, striking dragonfly and the longest British species, the only one of its genus to be found in Britain. -Identification:...
  
  Cordulegaster boltonii
• Large Red Damselfly
  Large Red Damselfly
  The Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula is a European damselfly. It is one of the first damselflies to emerge in the year.-Identification:Females occur in many colour forms, but all have yellow bands around the abdominal segments....
  
  Pyrrhosoma nymphula
• Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa

Orthoptera

Orthoptera

Orthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.Many insects in this order produce sound by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps...

 (Grasshoppers & Crickets)

• Dark bush-cricket
  Tettigoniidae
  The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6,400 species. It is part of the suborder Ensifera and the only family in the superfamily Tettigonioidea. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are...
  
   Pholidoptera griseoaptera (Found only on Laxey/Lonan coast)
• Speckled bush-cricket
  Speckled bush-cricket
  The speckled bush-cricket is a flightless species of bush-cricket that occurs across most of Europe.- Description :...
  
   Leptophyes punctatissima (Found only in Glen Chass, Port St. Mary)
• Lesser Mottled Grasshopper
  Stenobothrus
  Stenobothrus is a genus of insect in family Acrididae. It contains the following species:* Stenobothrus eurasius...
  
   Stenobothrus stigmaticus (Found only on Langness)
• Common Green Grasshopper Omocestus viridulus (Common)

Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

 (True Flies)

• Bibio marci
  Bibio marci
  Bibio marci or St. Mark's fly is a fly from the family Bibionidae. Their common name comes from the fact that the adults usually emerge around St Mark's Day, 25th April.-Biology:...
  
  
• Bibio reticulatus
• Bombylius canescens
• Bombylius minor Heath Bee-fly
• Calliphora vomitoria
• Cheilosia rosarum
• Machimus cowini Manx Robber Fly
  Manx robber fly
  The Manx robber fly, is one of the 7,100 species of robber fly or Asilidae known throughout the world, and one of 28 asilids known to occur in the British Isles.- Distribution and habitat :...
  
  

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

 (Bees, Wasps, Ants)

• Agrothereutes abbreviata
• Andrena clarkella
• Andrena denticulata
• Andrena labilis
• Bombus agrorum
• Bombus lucorum
  Bombus lucorum
  Bombus lucorum, the white-tailed bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee. The species is widespread throughout the UK. They are also located in south Alaska to Southern British Columbia, Alberta, east through Yukon and Northwest Territories. Identifiable by its pale yellow collar and second abdominal...
  
  
• Bombus muscorum
• Crabo cribarius
• Dolerus liogaster
• Dolerus cothurnatus
• Halictus calceatus
• Lissonata bellator
• Myrmica ruginodis
  Myrmica ruginodis
  Myrmica ruginodis is a species of ant that lives in northern parts of Europe and Asia. It is very similar to M. rubra, but has a more northerly and higher-altitude distribution. Overwintering larvae may become either workers or queen ants, with up to 20 queens living in a colony of up to 2,500...
  
  
• Parabates cristatus
• Pontania viminalis
• Psythyrus campestris
• Spilichneumon occisorius
• Trichoma enecator

Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 (Whites)

• Large White
  Large White
  The Large White , also called Cabbage Butterfly, Cabbage White, or in India the Large Cabbage White, White cabbage butterfly is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.-Distribution:...
  
   Pieris brassicae
• Small White Pieris rapae
• Green-veined White
  Green-veined White
  The Green-veined White is a butterfly of the Pieridae family.-Appearance and distribution:A circumboreal species widespread across Europe and Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, Japan and the Maghreb and North America...
  
   Pieris napi
• Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines

Lycaenidae

Lycaenidae

The Lycaenidae are the second-largest family of butterflies, with about 6000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies...

 (Blues & Coppers)

• Small Copper
  Small Copper
  The Small Copper, American Copper, or the Common Copper is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family.- Description :thumb|left|Larva...
  
   Lycaena phlaeas
• Common Blue
  Common Blue
  The Common Blue is a small butterfly in the family Lycaenidae, widespread over much of the Palaearctic. Recently, Polyommatus icarus was discovered in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada by Ara Sarafian, an amateur entomologist who observed the butterfly from 2005 to 2008...
  
   Polyommatus icarus
• Holly Blue
  Holly Blue
  The Holly Blue , is a butterfly that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family and is native to Eurasia and North America.In India, it is known as the Hill Hedge Blue...
  
   Celastrina argiolus

Satyridae (Browns)

• Grayling
  Grayling (butterfly)
  The Grayling is a species in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae. It sometimes occurs in coastal areas of northeast Scotland such as the Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve. It can also be found near the coast around England, such as Fire Beacon Hill...
  
   Hipparchia semele
• Speckled Wood
  Speckled Wood
  The Speckled Wood is a butterfly found in and on the borders of woodland throughout much of the Palearctic ecozone.In North Europe, Central Europe , Asia Minor, Syria, Russia and Central Asia where subspecies P. a. tircis occurs it is brown with pale yellow or cream spots and darker upperwing...
  
   Pararge aegeria
• Meadow Brown
  Meadow Brown
  The Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina, is a butterfly found in European meadows, where its larvae feed on grasses, such as Sheep's Fescue.Similar species are Gatekeeper and Small Heath ....
  
   Maniola jurtina
• Wall
  Wall
  A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air...
  
   Lasiommata megera
• Small Heath
  Small Heath (butterfly)
  The Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae, . It is widespread in Eurasia and northwestern Africa, preferring drier habitats than other Coenonymphae...
  
   Coenonympha pamphilus

Nymphalidae

Nymphalidae

The Nymphalidae is a family of about 5,000 species of butterflies which are distributed throughout most of the world. These are usually medium sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called...

 (Fritillaries & Aristocrats)

• Dark Green Fritillary
  Dark Green Fritillary
  The Dark Green Fritillary is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.The insect has a wide range in the Palearctic ecozone - Europe, Morocco, Iran , Siberia, Central Asia, China, Korea and Japan.-Subspecies:...
  
   Argynnis aglaja
• Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
• Small Tortoiseshell
  Small Tortoiseshell
  The Small Tortoiseshell is a well-known colourful butterfly.-Range:It is found in temperate Europe, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Siberia, China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan. There are a few records from New York City which, however, are believed to have arrived human-assisted.-Subspecies:*A. u. urticae...
  
   Aglais urticae
• Peacock Inachis io
• Comma
  Comma
  A comma is a type of punctuation mark . The word comes from the Greek komma , which means something cut off or a short clause.Comma may also refer to:* Comma , a type of interval in music theory...
  
   Polygonia c-album
• Painted Lady
  Painted Lady
  The Cynthia group of colourful butterflies, commonly called painted ladies, comprises a subgenus of the genus Vanessa in the Family Nymphalidae...
  
   Cynthia cardui
• Ringlet
  Ringlet
  The Ringlet is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is only one of the numerous "ringlet" butterflies in the tribe Satyrini.-External links:* http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_pages/hyperantus.htm...
  
   Aphantopus hyperantus†

Geometridae (Geometers)

• Peppered Moth
  Peppered moth
  The peppered moth is a temperate species of night-flying moth. Peppered moth evolution is often used by educators as an example of natural selection.- Distribution :...
  
   Biston betularia
• Garden Carpet
  Garden Carpet
  The Garden Carpet is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is an abundant and familiar species across its huge range which covers the whole Palearctic region, the Near East and North Africa....
  
   Xanthorhoe fluctuata
• Silver Ground Carpet Xanthorhoe montanata montanata

Sphingidae

Sphingidae

Sphingidae is a family of moths , commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths and hornworms, that includes about 1,200 species . It is best represented in the tropics but there are species in every region . They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their rapid,...

 (Hawkmoths)

• Elephant Hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor
• Death's Head Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos

Noctuidae

Noctuidae

The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....

 (Noctuids)

• Silver Y
  Silver Y
  The Silver Y is a migratory moth of the family Noctuidae which is named for the silvery Y-shaped mark on each of its forewings.-Description:...
  
   Autographa gamma f. gammina
• Ingrailed Clay
  Ingrailed Clay
  The Ingrailed Clay is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed through most of Europe.This species occurs in a huge range of colour types and is one of the most variable species in the family...
  
   Diarsia mendica mendica

Hemiptera

Hemiptera

Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...

 (True Bugs)

• Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale (Hawthorn Shield Bug)
• Capsus meriopterus (a Broom Myrid)
• Corixa praeusta (a Water Boatman)
• Herris lacustris (Common pondskater)
• Hydrometra stagnorum
  Hydrometra stagnorum
  Hydrometra stagnorum is a species of aquatic bug in the family Hydrometridae, the water measurerers.-Distribution:This species is found in numerous European countries, including Hungary and Austria. In Great Britain it is quite common in Leicestershire and Rutland.-Description :Hydrometra stagnorum...
  
   (Water-Measurer)
• Myzus cerasi
• Peizodorus lituratus
• Plagiognathus arbustorum
• Sybsigara fossarum
• Subsigara scotti
• Velua currens

Chiroptera (Bats)

• Common Pipistrelle
  Common Pipistrelle
  The Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus is a small pipistrelle bat whose very large range extends across most of Europe, North Africa, southwestern Asia, and possibly into Korea. It is one of the most common bat species in the British Isles....
  
   Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Craitnag)
• Whiskered Bat
  Whiskered bat
  The whiskered bats Myotis mystacinus and related species, are small European bats with long fur. Although uncommon, M. mystacinus is often found around human habitation and around water; it is similar to Brandt's bat Myotis brandtii, from which it was distinguished as a separate species only in...
  
   Myotis mystacinus
• Natterer's Bat
  Natterer's bat
  Natterer's bat is a European bat with pale wings. It has brown fur, also seen on the leg wing membrane, tending to white on its underside...
  
   Myotis nattereri
• Daubenton's Bat
  Daubenton's bat
  Daubenton's Bat, Myotis daubentonii, is a Eurasian bat with quite short ears. It ranges from Britain to Japan and is considered to be increasing its numbers in many areas.The name commemorates the French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton....
  
   Myotis daubentonii
• Leisler's Bat Nyctalus leisleri
• Soprano Pipistrelle
  Soprano Pipistrelle
  The Soprano Pipistrelle is a small bat that was only formally separated from the Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus in 1999....
  
   Pipistrellus pygmaeus
• Brown Long-eared Bat
  Brown long-eared bat
  The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat is a fairly large European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold...
  
   Plecotus auritus (Chleayshagh)

Lagomorpha

Lagomorpha

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families, the Leporidae , and the Ochotonidae...

 (Rabbits and Hares)

• Mountain Hare
  Mountain Hare
  The Mountain Hare , also known as Blue Hare, Tundra Hare, Variable Hare, White Hare, Alpine Hare and Irish Hare, is a hare, which is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. It is distributed from Fennoscandia to eastern Siberia; in addition there are isolated populations in the Alps,...
  
   Lepus timidus †* (extinct but reintroduced) (Mwaagh Slieu)
• European Hare
  European Hare
  The European hare , also known as the brown hare, Eastern Jackrabbit and Eastern prairie hare, is a species of hare native to northern, central, and western Europe and western Asia. It is a mammal adapted to temperate open country. It is related to the similarly appearing rabbit, which is in the...
  
   Lepus europaeus * (uncertain if introduced) (Mwaagh Dhone)
• European Rabbit
  European Rabbit
  The European Rabbit or Common Rabbit is a species of rabbit native to south west Europe and north west Africa . It has been widely introduced elsewhere often with devastating effects on local biodiversity...
  
   Oryctolagus cuniculus * (Conning)

Insectivora

Insectivora

The order Insectivora is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals...

 (Insect-Eaters)

• European Hedgehog
  European Hedgehog
  The European Hedgehog , Common hedgehog or just Hedgehog in the anglophone parts of Europe, is a hedgehog species found in northern and western Europe. It is about 20 to 30 cm in length. Adult mass typically ranges from 600 to up to 1,200 g ; occasionally, it may reach as much as...
  
   Erinaceus europaeus *(accidental introduction) * (Arkan Sonney)
• Pygmy Shrew
  Eurasian pygmy shrew
  The Eurasian Pygmy Shrew , often known simply as the Pygmy Shrew, is a widespread shrew of northern Eurasia. It is the only shrew native to Ireland....
  
   Sorex minutus (Thollag Airhey) (the Common Shrew
  Common Shrew
  The Common Shrew or Eurasian Shrew, Sorex araneus, is the most common shrew, and one of the most common mammals, throughout Northern Europe, including Great Britain, but excluding Ireland. It is long and weighs , and has velvety dark brown fur with a pale underside. Juvenile shrews have lighter...
  
   is not found in the Isle of Man as commonly thought)

Rodent

Rodent

Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing....

ia (Rodents)

• Wood Mouse
  Wood mouse
  The wood mouse is a common murid rodent from Europe and northwestern Africa. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck, has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm in length...
  
   Apodemus sylvaticus (Lugh Faiyr)
• House Mouse
  House mouse
  The house mouse is a small rodent, a mouse, one of the most numerous species of the genus Mus.As a wild animal the house mouse mainly lives associated with humans, causing damage to crops and stored food....
  
   Mus domesticus (Lugh Thie) *
• Brown Rat
  Brown Rat
  The brown rat, common rat, sewer rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Brown Norway rat, Norwegian rat, or wharf rat is one of the best known and most common rats....
  
   Rattus norvegicus * (Roddan Dhone)

Carnivora

Carnivora

The diverse order Carnivora |Latin]] carō "flesh", + vorāre "to devour") includes over 260 species of placental mammals. Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word "carnivore" can refer to any meat-eating animal...

 (Carnivores)

• Stoat
  Stoat
  The stoat , also known as the ermine or short-tailed weasel, is a species of Mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip...
  
   Mustela erminea hibernica (Assag)
• Ferret
  Ferret
  The ferret is a domesticated mammal of the type Mustela putorius furo. Ferrets are sexually dimorphic predators with males being substantially larger than females. They typically have brown, black, white, or mixed fur...
  
   Mustela furo (Kayt ny Giark) (known as Polecat
  European polecat
  The European polecat , also known as the black or forest polecat , is a species of Mustelid native to western Eurasia and North Africa, which is classed by the IUCN as Least Concern due to its wide range and large numbers. It is of a generally dark brown colour, with a pale underbelly and a dark...
  
  s but really just feral
  Feral
  A feral organism is one that has changed from being domesticated to being wild or untamed. In the case of plants it is a movement from cultivated to uncultivated or controlled to volunteer. The introduction of feral animals or plants to their non-native regions, like any introduced species, may...
  
   ferret
  Ferret
  The ferret is a domesticated mammal of the type Mustela putorius furo. Ferrets are sexually dimorphic predators with males being substantially larger than females. They typically have brown, black, white, or mixed fur...
  
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Pinnipedia (Seals and Walruses)

• Grey Seal
  Grey Seal
  The grey seal is found on both shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is a large seal of the family Phocidae or "true seals". It is the only species classified in the genus Halichoerus...
  
   Halichoerus grypus (Raun Glass)
• Common Seal Phoca vitulina (Raun) (occasional, not known to breed)

Artiodactyla (Even-toed Ungulates or Hoofed Mammals)

• Domestic Goat Capra hircus (Goayr) *

Marsupialia (Marsupials)

• Red-necked Wallaby
  Red-necked Wallaby
  The Red-necked Wallaby is a medium-sized marsupial macropod, common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia, including Tasmania.- Description :...
  
   Macropus rufogriseus (Myn-changaroo) *

Cetacea

Cetacea

The order Cetacea includes the marine mammals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean "whale"; its original meaning, "large sea animal", was more general. It comes from Ancient Greek , meaning "whale" or "any huge fish or sea...

 (Whales and Dolphins)

Note that Manx nomenclature does not differentiate between species. Most cetaceans are known as 'Muc Varrey' or 'Perkin Mooar', small dolphins as 'Doraid'.

Regularly seen species

• Harbour porpoise
  Harbour Porpoise
  The harbour porpoise is one of six species of porpoise. It is one of the smallest marine mammals. As its name implies, it stays close to coastal areas or river estuaries, and as such, is the most familiar porpoise to whale watchers. This porpoise often ventures up rivers, and has been seen...
  
   Phocoena phocoena (Perkin)
• Bottle-nosed dolphin Tursiops truncatus
• Common dolphin
  Common dolphin
  The common dolphin is the name given to two species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.Prior to the mid-1990s, most taxonomists only recognised one species in this genus, the common dolphin Delphinus delphis...
  
   Delphinus delphis (Doraid)
• Risso's dolphin
  Risso's Dolphin
  Risso's dolphin is the only species of dolphin in the genus Grampus.-Taxonomy:Risso's dolphin is named after Antoine Risso, whose description formed the basis of the first public description of the animal, by Georges Cuvier, in 1812...
  
   Grampus griseus
• Killer whale Orcinus orca
• Fin whale
  Fin Whale
  The fin whale , also called the finback whale, razorback, or common rorqual, is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. It is the second longest whale and the sixth largest living animal after the blue whale, bowhead whale, and right whales, growing to nearly 27 metres long...
  
   Balaenoptera physalus
• Minke whale
  Minke Whale
  Minke whale , or lesser rorqual, is a name given to two species of marine mammal belonging to a clade within the suborder of baleen whales. The minke whale was given its official designation by Lacepède in 1804, who described a dwarf form of Balænoptera acuto-rostrata...
  
   Balaenoptera acutorostrata
• Long-finned Pilot Whale
  Long-finned Pilot Whale
  The long-finned pilot whale is one of the two species of cetacean in the genus Globicephala. It belongs to the oceanic dolphin family , though its behavior is closer to that of the larger whales.-Description:...
  
   Globicephala melas (absent for several years)

Rarely seen species

• Humpback Whale
  Humpback Whale
  The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from and weigh approximately . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is an acrobatic animal, often breaching and slapping the...
  
   Megaptera novaeangliae
• Cuvier's Beaked Whale
  Cuvier's Beaked Whale
  Cuvier's beaked whale is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales. It is the only member of the genus Ziphius. Another common name for the species is goose-beaked whale because its head is said to be shaped like the beak of a goose. Georges Cuvier first described it in 1823 from part...
  
   Ziphius cavirostris
• White-beaked Dolphin
  White-beaked Dolphin
  The White-beaked dolphin is a marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae in the suborder Odontoceti .-Taxonomy:...
  
   Lagenorhynchus albirostris
• Atlantic White-sided Dolphin
  Atlantic White-sided Dolphin
  The Atlantic White-sided Dolphin is a distinctively coloured dolphin found in the cool to temperate waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Lagenorhynchus acutus
• Northern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon ampullatus

Vagrant species

• Sei Whale
  Sei Whale
  The sei whale , Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the third-largest rorqual after the blue whale and the fin whale. It inhabits most oceans and adjoining seas, and prefers deep offshore waters. It avoids polar and tropical waters and semi-enclosed bodies of water...
  
   Balaenoptera borealis
• North Atlantic Right Whale
  North Atlantic Right Whale
  The North Atlantic right whale which means "good, or true, whale of the ice") is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena, formerly classified as a single species. With only 400 in existence, North Atlantic right whales are among the most endangered whales...
  
   Eubalaena glacialis
• Blainville's Beaked Whale
  Blainville's Beaked Whale
  Blainville's beaked whale , or the dense-beaked whale, is the widest ranging mesoplodont whale and perhaps the most documented. Henri de Blainville first described the species in 1817 from a small piece of jaw—the heaviest bone he had ever come across—which resulted in the name densirostris...
  
   Mesoplodon densirostris
• Striped Dolphin
  Striped Dolphin
  The Striped Dolphin is an extensively studied dolphin that is found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Stenella coeruleoalba
• False Killer Whale
  False Killer Whale
  The False Killer Whale is a cetacean, and the third largest member of the oceanic dolphin family . It lives in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. As its name implies, the False Killer Whale shares characteristics, such as appearance, with the more widely known Orca...
  
   Pseudorca crassidens
• Pygmy Sperm Whale
  Pygmy Sperm Whale
  The Pygmy Sperm Whale is one of three species of toothed whale in the sperm whale family. They are not often sighted at sea, and most of what is known about them comes from the examination of stranded specimens.-Taxonomy:...
  
   Kogia breviceps

Mollusca

Mollusca

The Mollusca , common name molluscs or mollusksSpelled mollusks in the USA, see reasons given in Rosenberg's ; for the spelling mollusc see the reasons given by , is a large phylum of invertebrate animals. There are around 85,000 recognized extant species of molluscs. Mollusca is the largest...

 (Molluscs)

• Aplexa hypnorum
  Aplexa hypnorum
  Aplexa hypnorum, common name the moss bladder snail, is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails....
  
  
• Carychium minimum
  Carychium minimum
  Carychium minimum is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in European countries and islands including:* Czech Republic* Netherlands...
  
  
• Columella edentula
  Columella edentula
  Columella edentula, common name the "toothless column snail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae.-Distribution:...
  
  
• Lymnaea palustris
• Lymnaea perega
• Lymnaea truncatula
• Physa fontinalis
  Physa fontinalis
  Physa fontinalis is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. The shells of this species are left-handed or sinistral.-Distribution:...
  
  
• Pisidium hibernicum
  Pisidium hibernicum
  Pisidium hibernicum is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae.-Distribution:It's native distribution is Palearctic.* Czech Republic - endangered , endangered in Bohemia , critically endangered in Moravia* Slovakia...
  
  
• Pisidium milium
  Pisidium milium
  Pisidium milium is a species of very small freshwater bivalve in the family Sphaeriidae, the fingernail clams and pea clams.-Distribution :The native distribution of this species is Holarctic.* Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia, vulnerable...
  
  
• Pisidium nitidum
  Pisidium nitidum
  Pisidium nitidum or the "shining pea clam" is a species of minute freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae, the pea clams and fingernail clams.The adult size of the shell of this species is 3 mm.-Distribution:...
  
  
• Pisidium obtusale
  Pisidium obtusale
  Pisidium obtusale is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae.-Distribution:It's native distribution is Holarctic.* Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia, near threatened * Germany -...
  
  
• Pisidium pusillum
• Pisidium subtruncatulum
• Planorbis albus
• Planorbis contortus
• Planorbis spirorbis
• Punctum pygaeum
• Sphaereum corneum
• Valvata piscinalis
  Valvata piscinalis
  Valvata piscinalis, common name the European stream valvata, is a species of minute freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails. It is also known as Cincinna piscinalis .- Subspecies :Subspecies of Valvata piscinalis...
  
  
• Vertigo antivertigo
  Vertigo antivertigo
  Vertigo antivertigo is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Vertiginidae.- Distribution :This species occurs in countries and islands including:* Czech Republic...
  
  
• Anodonta anatina (Duck Mussel)

Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes are jawed fish with paired fins, paired nares, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone...

 (Cartilagenous Fish)

• Basking Shark
  Basking shark
  The basking shark is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark. It is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world's temperate oceans. It is a slow moving and generally harmless filter feeder and has anatomical adaptations to filter feeding, such as a greatly enlarged...
  
   Cetorhinus maximus (Sharkagh Souree)

Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes , also called bony fish, are a taxonomic group of fish that have bony, as opposed to cartilaginous, skeletons. The vast majority of fish are osteichthyes, which is an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of over 29,000 species...

 (Bony Fish)

• Brown Trout
  Brown trout
  The brown trout and the sea trout are fish of the same species....
  
   Salmo trutta
• Rainbow Trout
  Rainbow trout
  The rainbow trout is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead is a sea run rainbow trout usually returning to freshwater to spawn after 2 to 3 years at sea. In other words, rainbow trout and steelhead trout are the same species....
  
   Oncorhynchus mykiss *
• Atlantic Salmon
  Atlantic salmon
  The Atlantic salmon is a species of fish in the family Salmonidae, which is found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and in rivers that flow into the north Atlantic and the north Pacific....
  
   Salmo salar
• Ocean Sunfish
  Ocean sunfish
  The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, or common mola, is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of . The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally...
  
   Mola mola (recent vagrant)

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Arthropoda (Arthropods)

The format here is common English name (if one exists), followed by scientific name, followed by authority in brackets. There are no Manx names.

Arachnida (Spiders)

218 species of Arachnids have been identified in the Isle of Man

Isle of Man

The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

 as of 1 January 2002.

Dysderidae

Dysderidae

The family Dysderidae are araneomorph spiders found primarily in Eurasia, although extending into North Africa, with very few species occurring in South America, and one introduced into many regions of the world.Dysderids have six eyes, and are haplogyne, i.e...

 

• Dysdera erythrina (Walckenaer)
• Dysdera crocata C.L. Koch
• Harpactea hombergi (Scopoli)

Theridiidae

Theridiidae

Theridiidae is a large family of spiders, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders. The diverse family includes over 2200 species in over 100 genera) of three-dimensional space-web-builders found throughout the world...

 

• Episinus angulatus
  Episinus angulatus
  Episinus angulatus is a small mottled brownish tangle-web spider. It is found in low vegetation, bushes or under bark. Although it is a widespread European species, it is not common....
  
   (Blackwall)
• Dipoena inornata (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Steatoda phalerata (Panzer)
• Steatoda bipunctata
  Steatoda bipunctata
  Steatoda bipunctata is a species of cob-web spider, of the genus Steatoda, in the family Theridiidae.It is common in North America and Europe and may be found in proximity to human structures, such as basements or sheds. A nickname for this arachnid is the Rabbit Hutch Spider, since rabbit hutches...
  
   (Linnaeus)
• Theridion sisyphium (Clerck)
• Theridion melanurum Hahn
• Theridion mystaceum L. Koch
• Paidiscura pallens (Blackwall)
• Enoplognatha ovata
  Enoplognatha ovata
  Enoplognatha ovata is a species of spider belonging to the family Theridiidae. It is native to Europe and has also been introduced to North America....
  
   (Clerck)
• Enoplognatha thoracica (Hahn)
• Robertus lividus (Blackwall)
• Robertus arundineti (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Pholcomma gibbum (Westring)

Linyphiidae

Linyphiidae

Linyphiidae is a family of spiders, including more than 4,300 described species in 578 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae. New species are still being discovered throughout the world, and the family is poorly known...

 

• Ceratinella brevipes (Westring)
• Ceratinella brevis (Wider)
• Ceratinella scabrosa (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Walckenaeria acuminata Blackwall
• Walckenaeria antica (Wider)
• Walckenaeria nodosa O.P.-Cambridge
• Walckenaeria nudipalpis (Westring)
• Walckenaeria monoceros (Wider)
• Walckenaeria unicornis O.P.-Cambridge
• Walckenaeria kochi (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Walckenaeria cuspidata Blackwall
• Walckenaeria vigilax (Blackwall)
• Dicymbium nigrum (Blackwall)
• Dicymbium brevisetosum Locket
• Dicymbium tibiale (Blackwall)
• Entelecara erythropus (Westring)
• Gnathonarium dentatum (Wider)
• Gongylidium rufipes (Sundevall)
• Dismodicus bifrons (Blackwall)
• Hypomma bituberculatum (Wider)
• Hypomma cornutum (Blackwall)
• Metopobactrus prominulus (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Baryphyma trifrons (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Gonatium rubens (Blackwall)
• Gonatium rubellum (Blackwall)
• Maso sundevalli (Westring)
• Peponocranium ludicrum (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Pocadicnemis pumila (Blackwall)
• Pocadicnemis juncea Locket & Millidge
• Oedothorax gibbosus (Blackwall)
• Oedothorax fuscus (Blackwall)
• Oedothorax agrestis (Blackwall)
• Oedothorax retusus (Westring)
• Oedothorax apicatus (Blackwall)
• Trichopterna thorelli (Westring)
• Pelecopsis mengei (Simon)
• Pelecopsis parallela (Wider)
• Silometopus ambiguus (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Silometopus elegans (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Cnephalocotes obscurus (Blackwall)
• Tiso vagans (Blackwall)
• Tapinocyba praecox (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Tapinocyba pallens (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Monocephalus fuscipes (Blackwall)
• Monocephalus castenipes (Simon)
• Lophomma punctatum (Blackwall)
• Gongylidiellum vivum (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Micrargus subaequalis (Westring)
• Micrargus herbigradus (Blackwall)
• Erigonella hiemalis (Blackwall)
• Savignia frontata (Blackwall)
• Diplocephalus cristatus (Blackwall)
• Diplocephalus permixtus (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Diplocephalus latifrons (Blackwall)
• Diplocephalus picinus (Blackwall)
• Araeoncus humilis (Blackwall)
• Araeoncus crassiceps (Westring)
• Erigone dentipalpis (Wider)
• Erigone atra (Blackwall)
• Erigone promiscua (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Erigone arctica (White)
• Erigone longipalpis (Sundevall)
• Drepanotylus uncatus (O.P.-Cambridge
• Leptothrix hardyi (Blackwall)
• Hilaira excisa (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Halorates reprobus (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Ostearius melanopygius (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Porrhomma pygmaeum (Blackwall)
• Porrhomma convexum (Westring)
• Agyneta subtilis (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Agyneta conigera (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Agyneta decora (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Agyneta cauta (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Agyneta olivacea (Emerton)
• Agyneta ramosa Jackson
• Meioneta rurestris (C.L. Koch)
• Meioneta saxatilis (Blackwall)
• Microneta viaria (Blackwall)
• Centromerus sylvaticus (Blackwall)
• Centromerus prudens (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Tallusia experta (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Centromerita bicolor (Blackwall)
• Centromerita concinna (Thorell)
• Saaristoa abnormis (Blackwall)
• Bathyphantes approximatus (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Bathyphantes gracilis (Blackwall)
• Bathyphantes parvulus (Westring)
• Bathyphantes nigrinus (Westring)
• Kaestneria pullata (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Diplostyla concolor (Wider)
• Poeciloneta variegata (Blackwall)
• Drapetisca socialis
  Drapetisca socialis
  Drapetisca socialis is a species of spider belonging to the family Linyphiidae. It is distributed across most of the Palearctic region.Even among the diminutive spiders in this family, this is a very small species with a body length of just 3 mm...
  
   (Sundevall)
• Tapinopa longidens (Wider)
• Floronia bucculenta (Clerck)
• Taranucnus setosus (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Labulla thoracica (Wider)
• Stemonyphantes lineatus (Linnaeus)
• Bolyphantes luteolus (Blackwall)
• Lepthyphantes leprosus (Ohlert)
• Lepthyphantes minutus (Blackwall)
• Lepthyphantes alacris (Blackwall)
• Lepthyphantes obscurus (Blackwall)
• Lepthyphantes tenuis (Blackwall)
• Lepthyphantes zimmermanni Bertkau
• Lepthyphantes mengei Kulczynski
• Lepthyphantes flavipes (Blackwall)
• Lepthyphantes tenebricola (Wider)
• Lepthyphantes ericaeus (Blackwall)
• Linyphia triangularis (Clerck)
• Neriene montana (Clerck)
• Neriene clathrata (Sundevall)
• Neriene peltata
  Neriene peltata
  Neriene peltata is a species of spider belonging to the family Linyphiidae. It has a Holarctic distribution.Like other members of this family, this is a small spider: the body length excluding legs is about 5 mm. The carapace is brown with a black central stripe. The abdomen is striped brown...
  
   (Wider)
• Microlinyphia pusilla
  Microlinyphia pusilla
  Microlinyphia pusilla is a species of spider belonging to the family Linyphiidae. It has a Holarctic distribution.This species displays strong sexual dimorphism: The male is black and shiny with a narrow abdomen, with a body length of around 5 mm; The female is slightly larger with a much...
  
   (Sundevall)
• Allomengea scopigera (Grube)

Tetragnathidae 

• Tetragnatha extensa
  Tetragnatha extensa
  Tetragnatha extensa is a species of spider found across the Northern Hemisphere. It has an elongate body, up to long, and adopts a straight line posture when alarmed. It lives on low vegetation in damp areas, and feeds on flying insects which it catches in its web.-Description:T. extensa has an...
  
   (Linnaeus)
• Tetragnatha montana Simon
• Pachygnatha clercki Sundevall
• Pachygnatha degeeri
  Pachygnatha degeeri
  Pachygnatha degeeri is a spider in the genus of long-jawed orb weavers .- Appearance :Pachygnatha has a dark body, without a dark middle band. The legs are light, yellow-orange. The back can vary in colour and pattern. The back is split in two into an abdomen and a front body . In front of the...
  
   Sundevall
• Metellina segmentata
  Metellina segmentata
  Metellina segmentata is a spider in the Tetragnathidae family with a Palaearctic distribution. It has also been introduced to Canada.Adults can be found from August to October. These spiders prefer open habitats and are amongst the most frequent orb-weaving spiders.The web has no threads at its...
  
   (Clerck)
• Metellina mengei
  Metellina mengei
  Metellina mengei is a spider of the Tetragnathidae family that is found in Europe up to Georgia. It was once considered a form of M. segmentata that occurs in spring. M. mengei is much rarer than M. segmentata.-Description:...
  
   (Blackwall)
• Metellina merianae (Scopoli)
• European Cave Spider Meta menardi
  Meta menardi
  The European cave spider, , is a long-jawed orb-weaving spider it is also known as the Orbweaving cave spider, the Cave orbweaver and simply the Cave spider .- Habitat :...
  
   (Latreille)

Araneidae 

• European Garden Spider Araneus diadematus Clerck
• Araneus quadratus
  Araneus quadratus
  The four-spot orb-weaver is a common orb-weaver spider found in Europe and Asia. Females can reach 17 mm in length, especially when gravid, males approximately half that. They are quite variable in appearance, ranging from brown to bright orange or green, but they always have the...
  
   Clerck
• Larinioides cornutus
  Larinioides cornutus
  Larinioides cornutus, the furrow spider, is an orb-weaver spider with Holarctic distribution.Females reach a body length of about 6–14 mm, males up to 5–9 mm. Leg spans range from 18–35 mm....
  
   (Clerck)
• Nuctenea umbratica
  Nuctenea umbratica
  The Walnut Orb-Weaver Spider is a spider of the Araneidae family.-Description:The walnut orb-weaver spider is very wide and flattened, with a leathery skin. Its color ranges from red brown and grey brown to black with a dark, yellowish to yellow-greenish leaf-like fleckled marking on its...
  
   (Clerck)
• Araniella cucurbitina
  Araniella cucurbitina
  The Cucumber green spider is a spider of the Araneidae family. Females grow up to 8 mm, males only up to 5 mm. The spider is mainly found on forest clearings, where it weaves its orb-web between leaves and flowers. These webs are only about 10 cm in diameter.This spider does not use a hideout,...
  
   (Clerck)
• Araniella opisthographa (Kulczynski)
• Zygiella x-notata
  Zygiella x-notata
  Zygiella x-notata is a spider in the family Araneidae.-Description:Z. x-notata females are up to 11mm in size, males up to 7mm. The prosoma is yellow-brown, with a leaf-like mark on the opisthosoma. In moderate climate, adults appear from July to October, sometimes even into December...
  
   (Clerck)
• Zygiella atrica
  Zygiella atrica
  Zygiella atrica, like other Zygiella species, builds an orb web with two missing sectors, and a signalling thread in the center of those, leading to its hideout, whereas young spiders build a complete web....
  
   (C.L. Koch)

Lycosidae 

• Pardosa monticola (Clerck)
• Pardosa palustris (Linnaeus)
• Pardosa pullata (Clerck)
• Pardosa prativaga (L. Koch)
• Pardosa amentata (Clerck)
• Pardosa nigriceps
  Pardosa nigriceps
  Pardosa nigriceps is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae. This European spider is common on heaths and open spaces where there is low vegetation and bushes. The males have characteristically black palps due to a thick covering of hair...
  
   (Thorell)
• Alopecosa pulverulenta (Clerck)
• Trochosa ruricola
  Trochosa ruricola
  Trochosa ruricola is a wolf spider whose common name is Rustic wolf spider. The females are 15 millimeters but can reach 25 millimeters, and the males are 10 millimeters. Both sexes are dark brown and has a pale band that runs down to the carapace and continues to the abdomen. Their habitat is in...
  
   (Degeer)
• Trochosa terricola Thorell
• Arctosa perita (Latreille)
• Arctosa leopardus (Sundevall)
• Pirata piraticus (Clerck)
• Pirata latitans (Blackwall)
• Pirata piscatorius (Clerck)

Agelenidae 

• Agelena labyrinthica
  Agelena labyrinthica
  Agelena labyrinthica is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae, which contains 1146 species of funnel-web spiders. It is a widespread species in Europe, where there are 180 species, and in Central Europe, where there are 30 species currently known....
  
   (Clerck)
• Textrix denticulata (Olivier)
• Giant House Spider Tegenaria gigantea Chamberlin & Ivie
• Tegenaria saeva Blackwall
• Domestic House Spider Tegenaria domestica (Clerck) (Mx. Doo-oallee)

Hahniidae 

• Antistea elegans (Blackwall)
• Hahnia montana (Blackwall)
• Hahnia nava (Blackwall)

Amaurobiidae 

• Amaurobius fenestralis (Stroem)
• Amaurobius similis (Blackwall)
• Amaurobius ferox
  Amaurobius ferox
  Amaurobius ferox, sometimes known as the black lace-weaver is a spider belonging to the family Amaurobiidae. It is distributed in Europe and North America and has been introduced into New Zealand....
  
   (Blackwall)
• Coelotes atropos (Walckenaer)

Liocranidae 

• Agroeca proxima (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Scotina gracilipes (Blackwall)
• Phrurolithus festivus (C.L. Koch)

Clubionidae 

• Clubiona reclusa (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Clubiona stagnatilis Kulczynski
• Clubiona pallidula (Clerck)
• Clubiona phragmitis C.L. Koch
• Clubiona terrestris Westring
• Clubiona neglecta O.P.-Cambridge
• Clubiona lutescens Westring
• Clubiona comta C.L. Koch
• Clubiona trivialis
  Clubiona trivialis
  Clubiona trivialis is a small reddish brown spider with holarctic distribution. It is found in exposed places on low vegetation. Adults can be found throughout the year.-External links:**...
  
   C.L. Koch
• Clubiona diversa O.P.-Cambridge

Gnaphosidae 

• Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer)
• Drassodes cupreus (Blackwall)
• Haplodrassus signifer (C.L. Koch)
• Scotophaeus blackwalli (Thorell)
• Zelotes latreillei (Simon)
• Zelotes apricorum (L. Koch)
• Drassyllus lutetianus (L. Koch)
• Drassyllus pusillus (C.L. Koch)
• Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall)

Philodromidae 

• Philodromus aureolus (Clerck)
• Philodromus cespitum (Walckenaer)
• Tibellus maritimus (Menge)

Thomisidae 

• Xysticus cristatus (Clerck)
• Xysticus kochi (Thorell)
• Xysticus erraticus (Blackwall)
• Ozyptila sanctuaria (O.P.-Cambridge)
• Ozyptila trux (Blackwall)
• Ozyptila atomaria
  Ozyptila atomaria
  Ozyptila atomaria is a species of crab spider. It is very common on moist meadows of central Europe.Females reach up to 6mm, males grow up to 4mm, making it the biggest Ozyptila species. Both sexes are similar, generally yellowish brown, with two black lines running along the sides of the...
  
   (Panzer)

Salticidae 

• Zebra spider Salticus scenicus (Clerck)
• Heliophanus cupreus (Walckenaer)
• Pseudoeuophrys frontalis (Walckenaer)
• Euophrys lanigera (Simon)
• Sitticus saltator (Simon)

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Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida is a valid botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its circumscription can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being discussed.-Cronquist and...

 

• Agrimony
  Agrimony
  Agrimonia, commonly known as Agrimony, is a genus of 12-15 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Rosaceae, native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with one species also in Africa...
  
    Agrimonia eupatoria
• Alpine clubmoss  Diphasiastrum alpinum
• Beech fern  Phegopteris connectilis
• Blunt-leaved pondweed  Potamogeton obtusifolius
• Brackish water crowfoot  Ranunculus baudotii
• Burnet saxifrage
  Burnet Saxifrage
  Burnet Saxifrage is a plant, Pimpinella saxifraga of the family Umbelliferae a native of the British Isles and temperate Europe and Western Asia...
  
    Pimpinella saxifraga
• Carline thistle  Carlina vulgaris
• Celery-leaved Buttercup  Ranunculus sceleratus
• Common bladderwort
  Utricularia vulgaris
  Utricularia vulgaris is an aquatic species of bladderwort found in Asia and Europe. The plant is a free-floating and does not put down roots. Stems can attain lengths of over one metre in a single growing season, but die back and form turions in winter...
  
    Utricularia vulgaris
• Common cow-wheat  Melampyrum pratense
• Common sea lavender  Limonium vulgare
• Common Wintergreen  Pyrola minor
• Cranberry
  Cranberry
  Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. In some methods of classification, Oxycoccus is regarded as a genus in its own right...
  
    Vaccinium oxycoccus
• Dioecious sedge  Carex dioica
• Dodder  Cuscuta epithymum
• Dune fescue  Vulpia fasciculata
• Eelgrass
  Zostera
  Zostera is a small genus of widely distributed seagrass, commonly called marine eelgrass or simply eelgrass . The genus Zostera contains sixteen species.-Ecology:Zostera is found on sandy substrates or in estuaries submerged or partially floating...
  
    Zostera marina
• Fennel pondweed  Potamogeton pectinatus
• Few-flowered spike rush  Eleocharis quinqueflora
• Field gentian  Gentianella campestris
• Floating burr-reed  Sparganium natans
• Floating club-rush  Eleogiton fluitans
• Grass-leaved Orache  Atriplex littoralis
• Greater broomrape  Orobanche rapum-genistae
• Greater spearwort  Ranunculus lingua
• Hare's-foot clover
  Hare's-foot clover
  Trifolium arvense is a species of clover. It may also be known as Haresfoot clover, Rabbitfoot clover, Stone clover, Hare's-foot clover is a common name for the plant or Oldfield clover. This species of clover is native to most of Europe, excluding the arctic zone, and western Asia, in plain or...
  
    Trifolium arvense
• Hay-scented buckler-fern  Dryopteris aemula
• Horned pondweed  Zannichellia palustris
• Iceland cress  Rorippa islandica
• Ivy-leaved bellflower  Wahlenbergia hederacea
• Killarney filmy fern  Trichomanes speciosum
• Least willow  Salix herbacea
• Lesser clubmoss  Selaginella selaginoides
• Lesser Tussock-sedge  Carex diandra
• Lesser twayblade Neottia cordata
• Lesser water-plantain  Baldellia ranunculoides
• Maidenhair fern
  Adiantum capillus-veneris
  Adiantum capillus-veneris, the Southern maidenhair fern, black maidenhair fern, and venus hair fern, is a species of fern in the genus Adiantum with a subcosmopolitan worldwide distribution...
  
    Adiantum capillus-veneris
• Marsh hawk's-beard  Crepis paludosa
• Marsh stitchwort  Stellaria palustris
• Mountain pansy  Viola lutea
• Narrow Buckler-fern  Dryopteris carthusiana
• Narrow-leaved water-plantain  Alisma lanceolatum
• Nodding bur-marigold
  Nodding Bur-marigold
  Bidens cernua, the nodding bur-marigold, is an herbaceous plant native to North America. It is also called nodding beggartick. It grows from 30-100cm tall in wet areas. The leaves are sessile with a coarsely-toothed margin....
  
    Bidens cernua
• Oyster plant
  Mertensia
  Mertensia is a genus of about 40 species of perennial herbaceous plants with bell-shaped blue flowers opening from pink-tinged buds. This is one of several plants commonly called bluebell.The genus is named after the German botanist Franz Carl Mertens....
  
    Mertensia maritima
• Pale butterwort  Pinguicula lusitanica
• Pale sedge  Carex pallescens
• Parsley fern  Cryptogramma crispa
• Parsley water-dropwort  Oenanthe lachenalii
• Pennyroyal
  Pennyroyal
  Pennyroyal refers to two plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. For the American species, see American pennyroyal. The European pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium, , is a plant in the mint genus, within the family Lamiaceae. Crushed Pennyroyal leaves exhibit a very strong fragrance similar to spearmint...
  
    Mentha pulegium
• Pillwort  Pilularia globulifera
• Pink water speedwell  Veronica catenata
• Portland spurge  Euphorbia portlandica
• Rock sea lavender  Limonium binervosum agg.
• Saltmarsh flat-sedge  Blysmus rufus
• Sea-purslane  Atriplex portulacoides
• Sea wormwood  Seriphidium maritimum
• Shepherd's cress  Teesdalia nudicaulis
• Slender spike-rush  Eleocharis uniglumis
• Smooth cat's-ear  Hypochaeris glabra
• Spring sandwort  Minuartia verna
• Stagshorn club moss  Lycopodium clavatum
• Strawberry clover Trifolium fragiferum
• Tubular water-dropwort  Oenanthe fistulosa
• Viper's bugloss
  Viper's Bugloss
  Echium vulgare is a species of Echium native to most of Europe, and western and central Asia. It is also common in North America....
  
    Echium vulgare
• Western clover  Trifolium occidentale
• White sedge  Carex curta
• Wilson's filmy fern  Hymenophyllum wilsonii
• Wood fescue  Festuca altissima
• Wood melick  Melica uniflora
• Wood small-reed
  Wood Small-reed
  Wood Small-reed is a grass in the Poaceae family.It is found in Europe, Africa, and Asia....
  
    Calamagrostis epigejos
• Wood speedwell  Veronica montana
• Wood vetch  Vicia sylvatica

Strophariaceae

Strophariaceae

The Strophariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. The family contains 18 genera and 1316 species. The species of Strophariaceae have a red-brown to dark brown spore print, while the spores themselves are smooth and have an apical germ pore. These agarics are also characterized by...

 (Dung Fungi)

62 species of dung fungi have been recorded in the Isle of Man as of 13/04/09 my Michael J. Richardson, a British mycologist. The following are from a sample of rabbit

Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world...

 (Oryctolagus cuniculus) pellets collected at The Ayres

Point of Ayre

The Point of Ayre is the northernmost point of the Isle of Man. It lies at the northern end of Ramsey Bay north of the town of Ramsey. The point can be accessed by the A16 road from Bride....

 on 6 January 2008.

Sordariales

Sordariales

Sordariales are an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes , subphylum Pezizomycotina, phylum Ascomycota....

• Arnium mendax
• Bombardioidea stercoris
• Coniochaeta hansenii
• Podospora pleiospora
• Schizothecium tetrasporum
• Schizothecium vesticola

Pleosporales

Pleosporales

The Pleosporales is the largest order in the fungal class Dothideomycetes. By some estimates it contains 23 families, 332 genera and more than 4700 species. The majority of species are saprobes on decaying plant material in fresh water, marine, or terrestrial environments, but several species are...

• Delitschia winteri
• Sporormiella australis
• Sporormiella grandispora
• Sporormiella intermedia
• Trichodelitschia minuta