Species Explorer

Byrsonima coccolobifolia

Byrsonima coccolobifolia faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat loss from agricultural expansion and urban development in its native Brazilian Cerrado savanna. The species is further threatened by altered fire regimes and fragmentation of its specialized ecosystem, which disrupts its ecological relationships and reproductive success.

Lecanora vacillans

Pertusaria flavicans

Pristimantis versicolor

Hyloxalus elachyhistus

Pinirampus pirinampu

Asplenium heterochroum

Carex extensa

Andrena niveata

Pohlia elongata

Long-fruited Thread-moss (Pohlia elongata) is critically endangered due to its extremely limited distribution and vulnerability to habitat disturbance. The species faces severe threats from human activities that alter its specialized microhabitat requirements, particularly in areas where it grows on disturbed soil, rock crevices, and banks.

Stratiomys longicornis

Tetrix tenuicornis

Gavialis gangeticus

The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) has experienced catastrophic population declines of over 95% since the 1940s, primarily due to extensive habitat loss and degradation of river systems. Dam construction, sand mining, fishing activities, and water extraction have severely fragmented and altered the free-flowing river habitats essential for this critically endangered crocodilian. Egg collection, accidental capture in fishing nets, and pollution further compound the species' precarious situation.

Ptychomitrium polyphyllum

The Long-shanked Pincushion (Ptychomitrium polyphyllum) is critically endangered due to its extremely limited distribution and vulnerability to habitat degradation. This moss species faces severe threats from human activities that alter its specialized rocky habitat requirements and microclimate conditions.

Atriplex longipes

Carex lepidocarpa

Long-stalked Yellow-sedge (Carex lepidocarpa) is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized wetland environments. The species requires specific calcareous fen and marsh conditions that are increasingly rare due to drainage, agricultural conversion, and water table changes. Climate change and altered hydrology further threaten the remaining fragmented populations.

Lontra longicaudis

Gelechia cuneatella

Salvethymus svetovidovi

Aspidostemon inconspicuum

Longotra faces severe population declines due to extensive habitat destruction from agricultural expansion and urban development across its limited range. The species' highly specialized habitat requirements and small, fragmented populations make it extremely vulnerable to environmental changes and human disturbance.

Leioderes kollari

Myriophyllum laxum

Loose watermilfoil (Myriophyllum laxum) is critically endangered primarily due to habitat destruction and degradation of its freshwater wetland environments. The species faces severe pressure from agricultural development, water pollution, and hydrological changes that alter the delicate aquatic ecosystems it depends upon.

Hyloxalus nexipus

Cobitis hellenica

Pedicularis sylvatica

Nomada moeschleri

Hyosciurus ileile

Micarea hedlundii

Sintula corniger

Physodontia lundellii

Gymnostomum viridulum

Luisier's Tufa-moss is critically endangered due to its extremely restricted distribution to specific tufa-forming spring habitats that are highly vulnerable to hydrological changes and human disturbance. The species faces severe threats from water extraction, pollution, and habitat modification that can alter the delicate chemical conditions required for tufa formation and moss survival.

Poecilotriccus luluae

Schistostega pennata

Lunania divaricata

Lunania divaricata faces severe population decline primarily due to habitat destruction from agricultural expansion and urban development in its limited range. The species' restricted distribution makes it particularly vulnerable to localized threats, with remaining populations fragmented and isolated.

Selenia lunularia

Peniophora lilacea

Gloeohypochnicium analogum

Loweomyces wynneae

Plectocarpon lichenum

Coleophora pulmonariella

Coleophora pulmonariella, the lungwort case-bearer moth, is critically endangered primarily due to habitat loss and degradation of its specialized woodland environments. The species depends entirely on lungwort (Pulmonaria) plants for larval development, making it extremely vulnerable to changes in forest understory composition and management practices that affect these host plants.

Cosmotriche lobulina

Limnephilus germanus

Plagiothecium latebricola

Lurking Leskea (Plagiothecium latebricola) is critically endangered primarily due to habitat destruction and degradation of its specialized cave and rock crevice environments. The species faces severe threats from quarrying activities, recreational caving, and climate change impacts that alter the delicate moisture conditions required for this bryophyte's survival.

Sitona humeralis

Lopheros rubens

Lopheros rubens faces severe population declines due to widespread habitat destruction from agricultural expansion and urban development across its limited range. The species' specialized habitat requirements and small population size make it extremely vulnerable to environmental changes and human disturbance.

Alopecosa cuneata

Farlowella martini

Metteniusa edulis

Cochranella mache

Cephalozia macounii

Macoun's cephalozia is critically endangered due to its extremely limited distribution and vulnerability to habitat disturbance. This tiny liverwort is known from only a few locations in North America, where it faces threats from human activities and environmental changes that can easily destroy its specialized microhabitat requirements.