Red book areas exist for each county individually. This document was created at the initiative of the International Union for the Protection of Animals in 1966, and 8 years later it appeared on the modern territory of Russia, which is part of the Soviet Union. Separately, in the Leningrad region, the publication was formed over the period from 1999 to 2002.
Book sections
The pages of the Red Book contain the following sections: extinct species, endangered, rare, little studied, and also restored. A total of 558 living creatures and 528 plants were registered, among which 151 mushrooms, 49 lichens, 71 algae, 56 bryophytes, 201 vascular.
Vertebrate animals that are on the verge of extinction
Vertebrate animals of the Red Book of the Leningrad Region are presented in the following categories:
- Amphibians and amphibians - crest and garlic newt.
- Bone fish - white-eyed, Volkhov and Svir whitefish, chub, mustard, asp, trout, sculpin, pale, feint. Among the more famous are catfish and lake salmon.
- Cyclostrus - sea lamprey.
- Mammals of the Red Book - small shrew, evening ginger, otter river, roe deer and European mink, black rat, two-tone leather, flying squirrel, watery night, mustachioed, pond, Natterera, ringed seal, common and underground vole, wolverine, gray seal. This is the second largest category of animals. The garden dormouse, which is a representative of the species of rodents, also belongs to them. It lives mainly in places with dense deciduous plantations in European territories. Leads a nocturnal lifestyle. The diet is made up of smaller rodents, eggs and chicks. These Red Book mammals live and feed mainly on trees, setting up a house on branches or in a hollow. The breeding season lasts from late spring to mid-autumn. Cubs mature in utero within 23-28 days, in their litter an average of three to five. In the southern regions this can occur twice a year. The cubs are born blind and see through 3 weeks later. Adults hibernate. Here are such interesting animals of the Red Book of the Leningrad Region.
- Birds are the largest category in terms of numbers. Almost all known birds belong to it. The most common ones are white and black storks, spinning tops, bitterns, turtledoves, golden eagles, Dubrovnik, canary finch, green woodpecker, three-fingered and gray-haired, partridge white and gray, hollow, godwit, wood lark, cuckoo, titmouse, mustard, oatmeal, gray duck, eider Siberian and common, tundra swan and whooper, pegans, gray goose and many others.
Invertebrate animals on the verge of extinction
Invertebrate animals of the Red Book of the Leningrad Region contain mollusks in their category. The most famous among them are two types of pearl mussel - elongated and northern European. This is the second largest category. The first place is occupied by arthropods, which include: broad-toed crayfish, amphibian grasshopper, black and white-bearded andrenovid, ibis fly, water stick, sennitsa marsh and hero, blind hawthorn, lilac and aspen, peacock eye, swallowtail, apollon, birch silkworm.
The scoop of most varieties is extremely rare, for example, stem, field, Illyrian, heather, poohogon, earthy, Finnish, as well as grassy, cattail, reed, gray, striped. These and many other representatives, unfortunately, can be seen in this publication, leafing through the pages of the Red Book.
Ringworms also belong to this category, for example, Leydig's amphichet, Nais, Heusher's Potamotrix, Wolf propallus and others.
Red Book of the Leningrad Region: animals and plants
All representatives of fauna and flora in this book are divided into classes for convenience. Those, in turn, are categorized. The second large section of the Red Book is devoted to plants. By categories, it is divided into vascular, lichens and fungi, mosses and algae. The first includes numerous angiosperms, as well as ferns. Among the most famous representatives are low birch, branchy forget-me-not, bell-bell, three kinds of violet - Dortman, short-haired and Selkirka, clove, dioecious valerian, gentian gentian, centaury beautiful, ordinary and seaside, as well as blue honeysuckle. All of these and many other plants included in the Red Book belong to the species of angiosperms. Among ferns, such representatives as woodsia, holokunchik, and four types of clumps are registered - simple, virgin, chamomile, and lanceolate. As well as Brown's mnogoryadnik and prickly, Siberian bracken and rhizome.
Algae of the Red Book of the Leningrad Region
Algae include:
- Brown, they are the most famous. These include dictiosiphonucropiform, pseudolithoderma, ralphsia, twisted stickyiosiphon, fucus and elahista.
- Diamanthes, to which diatoms of two varieties are enumerated - medium-toothed and winter, Cleve gonfonema, serial brahizira, curled pinularia, bicornic neidium, etc.
- The red ones are represented by the distinctive batrachospermum and hilbdenbrandia.
- The yellow-green ranked are the heads of two varieties - the shleicher and the unfolded one.
- Blue-green (radiocystis, curved anabena, Isachenko, Ukrainian, Sedova, ellipsoid, hyella, planktotrix reddish, thick nodularia, striated fortia, plum-like stock, sinuous afanisomenon and others).
- Gutters. They are represented by three-bladed baptismal, Finnish arnellia, rock anastomilla, Taylor mile, forked mesgeria, scorched marsupella, wintering mercury, frulling, floating ricciocarp, porous riccia. The flat-leaved lyinga also belongs to them.
- Green and char algae.
Moss-like plants of the Red Book of the Leningrad Region
The following is a category of moss-like plants, numbering several dozen representatives of this species. Such as, for example, hairy dichelima, field brachytheitis, dimorphic heteroclad, grimmy in two varieties - Ramonda and high, as well as many others.
Mushrooms of the Red Book of the Leningrad Region
Lichens and fungi are divided into ascomycetes (pulmonary and pitted lobaria, Derigen peltiger and hillock and others.), Mucus (diahema, dermis, and others), the second largest in number of names, and basiadal, represented in the largest number of representatives. These include hygrophore of 4 varieties - ashy white, hyacinth, pimpled, cohonen, whips, entolome 6 types and many others.
