Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage
Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage
Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage
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Table 5 – Legally protected invertebrate species possibly occurring<br />
in fen habitats<br />
286<br />
Name<br />
Lesser whirlpool<br />
ramshorn<br />
Narrow-mouthed<br />
whorl snail<br />
Desmoulin’s<br />
whorl snail<br />
Scientific<br />
name<br />
Anisus<br />
vorticulus<br />
Vertigo<br />
angustior<br />
Vertigo<br />
moulinsiana<br />
Medicinal leech Hirudo<br />
medicinalis<br />
White-clawed<br />
crayfish<br />
Southern<br />
damselfly<br />
Austropotamobius<br />
pallipes<br />
Coenagrion<br />
mercuriale<br />
Norfolk hawker Aeshna<br />
isosceles<br />
Mole cricket Gryllotalpa<br />
gryllotalpa<br />
Lesser silver<br />
water beetle<br />
Hydrochara<br />
caraboides<br />
Marsh fritillary Eurodryas<br />
aurinia<br />
Swallowtail<br />
butterfly<br />
Papilio<br />
machaon<br />
britannicus<br />
<strong>Fen</strong> raft-spider Dolomedes<br />
plantarius<br />
Protection<br />
in law<br />
Conservation Regulations<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
UKBAP Priority Species<br />
Conservation Regulations<br />
(SAC designations only)<br />
Conservation Regulations<br />
(SAC designations only)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Conservation Regulations<br />
(SAC designations only)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(taking and sale only)<br />
Conservation Regulations<br />
(SAC designations only)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Conservation Regulations<br />
(SAC designations only)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Wildlife & Countryside Act<br />
(full protection)<br />
Preferred habitat<br />
Unshaded ditches and drains with a rich<br />
flora; a species of drains in grazing levels<br />
rather than fens, but may be fen-associated<br />
Unshaded short vegetation on marshy<br />
ground of high, even humidity, subject<br />
neither to periodic desiccation nor to deep<br />
or prolonged flooding<br />
Tall wetland vegetation, chiefly beds of<br />
grasses or sedges, growing on wet, but not<br />
deeply flooded, ground<br />
Lakes or ponds with dense stands of water<br />
plants; remaining British populations are<br />
essentially randomly scattered chance<br />
survivals<br />
Streams and rivers; peripheral to fen<br />
habitat, but potentially closely associated<br />
with fens<br />
Shallow, slow-flowing, unshaded, base-rich<br />
runnels and streams<br />
Well-vegetated unshaded drainage ditches;<br />
a species of grazing marshes rather than<br />
fens, but its drains may be fen-associated<br />
Exact requirements uncertain. No recent<br />
records<br />
Well-vegetated unshaded ditches and<br />
ponds; recent records are from grazing<br />
levels ditches and from field ponds, but<br />
older records are from fens and ditches<br />
may be fen-associated<br />
Grazed grassland with varied structure<br />
including large stands of devil’s-bit<br />
scabious (Succisa pratensis); able to live in<br />
a range of grassland types provided these<br />
requirements are met, and intolerant of very<br />
wet conditions<br />
Tall herbaceous fen vegetation with<br />
abundant Cambridge milk-parsley<br />
(Peucedanumm palustre)<br />
Small pools with overhanging coarse<br />
herbaceous vegetation; also known from<br />
grazing marsh drains