Russia

Checklist of Endemic Animal and Plant Families

This list of animal and plant families found exclusively in Russia is based on the taxonomy used in the Mammal Diversity Database (2020) for mammals, HBW/BirdLife (2024) for birds, the Reptile Database (2018) for reptiles, AmphibiaWeb (2018) for amphibians, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (2023) for fishes, and POWO (2024) for vascular plants. Invertebrates are based on Zhang (2013), Zhang (2011), and Roskov et al. (2014) depending on the group. Families described after these sources are indicated by the year of description. For further details on the sources and possible inaccuracies in the list see Sources & Caveats.

Tetracoelactinidae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Cnidaria Anthozoa) 2021

Acanthogammaridae 34 gen. 123 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Baikalogammaridae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Carinogammaridae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Derjugianidae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca) 2017

Eulimnogamaridae 16 gen. 116 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Macrohectopodidae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Micruropodidae 3 gen. 41 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Ommatogammaridae 3 gen. 5 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Pachyschesidae 1 gen. 16 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Pallaseidae 8 gen. 21 spp. (Arthropoda Crustacea Malacostraca)

Golovatchiidae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Arthropoda Diplopoda Chordeumatida)

Jurodidae 1 gen. 1 spp. (Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera)

Baicaliidae 9 gen. 59 spp. (Mollusca Gastropoda )

Rhynchokarlingiidae 12 gen. 70 spp. (Platyhelminthes Rhabditophora )

Lubomirskiidae 4 gen. 16 spp. (Porifera Demospongiae )