Kentish Snail
- Group
- Molluscs
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 7,788
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Species recorded in Dorset
1,102 species
Dorset — county
European Storm-Petrel
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 7,748
Dog-rose
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,677
Blonde ray
- Group
- Fish
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 7,660
Bell Heather
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,603
Early Mining Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 7,566
Tamarisk Scalewort
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,525
Great Scented Liverwort
- Group
- Liverworts
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 7,505
Phacelia
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,497
European Spindletree
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 7,415
Common Dust Lichen
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 7,408
Glaucous Sedge
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,387
Norfolk Hawker
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,361
False Brome
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,325
Marsh Woundwort
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,315
Sixspot Cranefly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 7,283
Wood Warbler
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 7,246
Acorn Barnacle
- Group
- Crustaceans
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 7,241
False Beard Moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 7,207
Hooded Rosette Lichen
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 7,205
Papillose Bog-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,168
Bumble Bee Hover Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,101
Small Red Damselfly
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,101
Elephant Hawk-moth
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,042
Bog Asphodel
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 7,024
Sheep's Sorrel
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 7,014
Downy Emerald
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 6,965
Green Dock Beetle
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 6,957
Cuspidate Earth-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- November
- Records since 2000
- 6,950
Laurustinus
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 6,936
Fish Leech
- Group
- Worms (annelids)
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 6,917
Lecidella lichen
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 6,871
Notch-horned Cleg
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 6,849
Noon Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 6,837
Dotted Ramalina
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 6,798
Pea and Bean Weevil
- Group
- Beetles
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 6,781
Gorse Shieldbug
- Group
- True bugs
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 6,724
Iceland Gull
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 6,693
Common Fleabane
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 6,682
Snakelocks Anemone
- Group
- Jellyfish, corals and anemones
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 6,676
Bulbous Buttercup
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 6,662
Bumblebee Blacklet
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 6,599
Dark Crottle
- Group
- Lichens
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 6,587
Spring Epistrophe
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 6,574
Red-necked Grebe
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 6,573
Bee Orchid
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 6,503
Black-tailed Aphideater
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 6,458
Star Ascidian, Star tunicate, Golden star sea-squirt
- Group
- Sea squirts
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 6,456