57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2026-01-30T08:41:57 UK GEMINI 2.3 UK Checklist of freshwater species 2018-05-24 publication 2018-05-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd 10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd doi: Gunn, I.D.M., Carvalho, L., Davies, C.E., Edwards, F.K., Furse, M.T., Maitland, P.S., Raper, C., Siriwardena, G.M., Winfield, I.J. (2018). UK Checklist of freshwater species. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd The UK Checklist of Freshwater Species is a collation of all the species (apart from algae) known to be found in association with fresh waters in the United Kingdom. The following eight major groups were identified as being associated with fresh waters in the UK: algae, amphibians, birds, fish, invertebrates, macrophytes, mammals and reptiles. Algae (except stoneworts) were not included in the UK Checklist of Freshwater Species as they are currently undergoing a major revision. Other microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and viruses) are also not included in this species list. The checklist was compiled to allow querying of freshwater species data in the Biological Records Centre (BRC) but to also to query freshwater species data from the BRC via the UK Lakes Portal (https://uklakes.ceh.ac.uk/), as well as to update the freshwater species list supplied to the UK Species Inventory (UKSI) partners, such as Recorder 6, National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Atlas and iRecord. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd Gunn, I. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Gunn, I.D.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Carvalho, L. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-9902 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Davies, C.E. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Edwards, F.K. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9875-6663 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Furse, M.T. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Maitland, P.S. Fish Conservation Centre savingfish@sky.com author Raper, C. Natural History Museum c.raper@nhm.ac.uk author Siriwardena, G.M. British Trust for Ornithology gavin.siriwardena@bto.org.uk author Winfield, I.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9296-5114 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication fish alga amphibian bird invertebrate reptile mammal GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Water quality Invasive species macrophyte otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Gunn, I.D.M., Carvalho, L., Davies, C.E., Edwards, F.K., Furse, M.T., Maitland, P.S., Raper, C., Siriwardena, G.M., Winfield, I.J. (2018). UK Checklist of freshwater species. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd English utf8 biota environment Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/57653719-434b-4b11-9f0d-3bd76054d8bd/UK_checklist_of_freshwater_species.csv Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The UK Checklist of Freshwater Species was put together between 2015-2017 by Iain Gunn (CEH Edinburgh) in collaboration with Laurence Carvalho (CEH Edinburgh), Chris Raper (Natural History Museum (NHM)), Gavin Siriwardena (British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)) and Ian Winfield (CEH Lancaster). The checklist was compiled, primarily, under the auspices of the NERC Highlights Hydroscape project (NEC05609). The freshwater invertebrate component of the checklist was updated by Iain Gunn predominantly based on the 2011 version of the Mike Furse (ex-CEH Dorset, now retired)/Peter Maitland (Fish Conservation Centre) invertebrate code list compiled by Cynthia Davies (ex-CEH Wallingford, now retired) and Francois Edwards (CEH Wallingford).