About Earthynature of Britain

Species recorded in Cornwall

1,504 species

Cornwall — county

Laddered Pixie-cup Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,258

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Group: Birds
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 1,257

Pseudosagedia aenea

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,255

Milky bellflower

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,254

Small-mouthed Beardless-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 1,253

Many-pored Punch Lichen

Group: Fungi
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 1,242

Dot lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,238

Mougeot's Rock-shield

Group: Lichens
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 1,232

Serrate Ephemerum Moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 1,211

Blastenia crenularia

Group: Lichens
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,210

Fan-bristled Robberfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,208

Rim lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,198

Oak Curtain Crust

Group: Fungi
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 1,194

Micarea byssacea

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,193

Dead Man's Fingers

Group: Fungi
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 1,186

Adicella reducta

Group: Caddisflies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,185

Neat Crisp-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 1,169

Agonimia lichen

Group: Fungi
Peak month: November
Records since 2000: 1,166

Yellow Crisp-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 1,160

Sheep's-bit

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,159

Thrincia saxatilis

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,157

Jelly Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: November
Records since 2000: 1,155

Dolichopus ungulatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,145

Gallowayiopsis glebulosa

Group: Lichens
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 1,144

Rim lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,138

Glaucous Crystalwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: November
Records since 2000: 1,131

String-of-sausage lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 1,125

Helina reversio

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,124

Semaphore Fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,122

Bloody Comma Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,118

Dendrographa decolorans

Group: Lichens
Peak month: February
Records since 2000: 1,107

Daddy Longleg

Group: Mites, harvestmen and other arachnids
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,100

Bear's-breech

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 1,099

Sulphur Beetle

Group: Beetles
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,098

Sarcogyne lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,095

Strawberry Anemone

Group: Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 1,093

Epitriptus cingulatus

Group: True flies
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 1,089

Dark Gray Boulder Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,081

Dot lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,072

Pyrenula macrospora

Group: Fungi
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,072

Gyrographa gyrocarpa

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,071

Balea sarsii

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 1,070

Streblospio shrubsolii

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 1,070

Common Coal Dust Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 1,069

Granular Mottled-disk Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 1,064

Royal Fern

Group: Ferns and horsetails
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,063

Crested Hair-grass

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 1,054

Common Frillwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: January
Records since 2000: 1,052