Vol. 420 No. 9
84 Mr. J. Bruton and Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will list the Irish indigenous species of animals, insects and plant which are considered to be threatened with extinction within the conventionally understood meaning of that term.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service, Office of Public Works has published The Irish Red Data Book on vascular plants. It is an inventory of the flowering plants and ferns of Ireland which are considered to be threatened on the basis of criteria set out in the book and categorised according to IUCN Schedules as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, extinct or not now rare or threatened. This is available from the Government Publications Sales Office.
A series of Red Data Books on the lower plants of Great Britain and Ireland and also a Red Data book on vertebrates in Ireland are in course of compilation jointly by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and similar authorities in Northern Ireland and England, Scotland and Wales.
Following is a list of threatened Irish terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates of taxonomic groups considered to be sufficiently well known in Ireland for assessment to be made of their status.
Gastropoda
Clausilidae
Cochlodina laminata
Helicidae
Helicogona lapidicia
Hydrobidae
Pseudamnicola confusa
Lymnaeidae
Lymnaea glabra
Succineidae
Catinella areanaria
Vertiginidae
Vertigo angustior
Vertigo geyeri
Vertigo lilljeborgi
Trichoptera
Hydroptilidae
Hydroptial tigurina
Ithytrichia clavata
Limnephilidae
Limnephilus pati
Polycentropidae
Cyrnus insolutus
Psychomyiidae
Tinodes dives
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Limnophorus refoscutellatus
Lepidoptera
Notodontidae
Leucondonta bicoloria
Satyridae
Erebia epiphron
