Red list of Mongolia

Reptiles and amphibians:Salamandrella keyserlingii

Status:vulnerable

The Siberian newt, Salamandrella keyserlingii, is a species of newt found in Northeast Asia. It is found primarily in Siberia, in wet woods and riparian groves, with outlying populations also in northern Kazakhstan and Mongolia, northeastern China, and on the Korean Peninsula. It is believed to be extirpated from South Korea.

Birds: Siberian Crane

Status: Critically endangered

The Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are distinctive among the cranes, adults are nearly all snowy white, except for their black primary feathers that are visible in flight and with two breeding populations in the Arctic tundra of western and eastern Russia.

Status: endangered

Fish: Pucho Taimen

The taimen (Hucho taimen), also known as Siberian taimen and Siberian salmon, is a species of fish in the salmon family (family Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes. Adipose, anal, and caudal fins are often dark red. The belly ranges from nearly white to dark gray. The taimen is one of the largest salmonids in the world. Most mature fish caught weigh from 15 to 30 kg (33 to 66 lb).[2] The average length is from 70 to 120 cm (28 to 47 in). The maximum size is not assured, but supposedly a fish caught in the Kotui River in Russia in 1943 with a length of 210 cm (83 in) and a weight of 105 kg (231 lb) is the largest size recorded.[

Brachanthemum mongolorum

Animal Kingdom

Allium macrostemon

Critically endangered

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Dwarf semishrub 5-20 cm tall, with lignescent

prostrate strongly branched thin stems and solitary calathidia

on thin annual erect shoots; leaves twice trisected into linear

lobes. Calathidia in 1cm diameter, yellow.

Global Status: Not Evaluated

Regional Status: Critically Endangered, B1ab(iii)+B2ab(iii)

Allium macrostemon is a species of wild onion widespread across much of East Asia. It is known from many parts of China, as well as Japan (incl Ryukyu Islands), Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and Primorye. It has been collected from elevations ranging from sea level to 3000 m.

Allium macrostemon produces one round bulb up to 2 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 70 cm tall. Leaves are shorter than the scape, long and hollow, round or triagonal in cross-section. Umbel is large and crowded with many pale red or pale purple flowers

Red list of Mongolia

The first part of the Mongolian Red List of Plants includes 148 species of vascular plants, which were specified as “Very Rare” in the Mongolian Law on Natural Plants (1995) and Mongolian Red Book (1987, 1997). A total of 131 species of vascular plants were included in the List of Very Rare Plants, the attachment of Mongolian Law on Natural Plants (1995) and 82 species as “very rare” in the Mongolian Red Book (1997). There are 75 species common in both documents.

The species have been assessed using the ‘IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria’ (IUCN, 2001) for the first time, by more than 30 leading experts on Mongolian plants, gathered at the Mongolian Biodiversity Databank workshop held in October 6th -10th , 2011.

For all 148 species information such as scientific and common names, global and regional distributions, legal status, habitats are given with their pictures and distribution maps. For threatened species, conservation action plans were also composed, defining the dominant threats and required conservation measures.

Mongolian Red List and Conservation Action Plans of PLANTS (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273023657_Mongolian_Red_List_and_Conservation_Action_Plans_of_PLANTS [accessed Feb 3, 2016].

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species. A series of Regional Red Lists are produced by countries or organizations, which assess the risk of extinction to species within a political management unit.

Nuphar pumila

Species Authority: ((Timm) De Candolle)

Common Names: Dwarf Cowlily (English), Byatskhan

Saakhuutsetseg (Mongolian)

Description: Rhizomes stout, 1-3 cm in diam. Floating leaves

ovate to ovate, seldom elliptic, 5-15cm long, 3.5-11 cm wide,

abaxially glabrous to densely pubescent, adaxially glabrous,

base cordate. Flower 1.5-3 cm in diam. Peduncle 40-50 cm,

pubescent. Sepals yellow, oblong to elliptic, 1-2.5 cm. Petals

narrowly cuneate to broadly linear, 5-7 mm, apex emarginate.

Stigma rays 8-10. Fruit 1-2 cm in diam. Flowering in JuneAugust.

Global Status: Not Evaluated

Regional Status: Endangered, B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv)

Status: endangered

Insect: Apollo Butterfly

Plant Kingdom

Mammal: The Gobi Bear

Status: Critically endangered

The Gobi bear, Ursus arctos gobiensis (known in Mongolian as the mazaalai) is a subspecies of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, that is found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It is listed as critically endangered by Mongolian Redbook of Endangered Species and by the Zoological Society of London using IUCN standards, the population included less than 50 adults and were separated by enough distance

The beautiful Apollo butterfly has long been prized by collectors, who aim to possess as many of the variants as possible. While over-collecting is believed to have caused populations to decline in some areas, such as in Spain and Italy, habitat change is thought to be a far more significant threat to this species’ survival.[1] Plantations of conifers, the succession of suitable habitat to scrubland, agriculture, and urbanization have all reduced the habitat of the Apollo butterfly. Climate change and acid rain have also been implicated in this species decline in Fennoscandia. In addition, motor vehicles have been cited as a cause of Apollo butterfly mortalities; vehicles on a motorway system near Bolzano in South Tyrol, Italy, are said to have nearly wiped out a race of the Apollo.[1]

Nymphaea candida

Common Names: White Water-lilly (English),

Tsavtsagaan Bulbuu (Mongolian)

Description: Rhizomes erect or ascending,

unbranched. Leaf blade suborbicular, 10-25 cm in

diameter, papery, margin entire. Flowers floating,

Regional Status: Endangered, B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv)

Rationale for Assessment: This species has been assessed as Endangered because it has a restricted

geographical distribution and a narrow habitat range, with isolated populations. Prolonged droughts could

reduce some populations and some ‘permanent’ wetlands could dry up

Gagea hiensis

Species Authority: (Pascher)

Common Names: None (English), Gienii Khavriinshar

(Mongolian)

Synonyms: Gagea terraccianoana (Pascher)

Description: Perennial herbs, 4-15 cm tall. Bulb ovoid

or ovoid-globose, 4-7 mm in diam.; tunic brown-yellow

Regional Status: Vulnerable, B2ab(i,ii,iii)

Rationale for Assessment: This species has been assessed as Vulnerable because it appears to have a very

restricted geographical distribution. Potential threats to this species are prolonged droughts, forest fires and

restricted habitat range.

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