United Kingdom
The Scottish Crossbill (eBird) is a bird that occurs only in the United Kingdom.
The Orkney Vole (ARKive WM), the Skomer Vole (BBC), and the Saint Kilda Field Mouse (Wikipedia) are endemic mammal subspecies.
Freshwater fish unique to the United Kingdom include Malloch's Char (Ittiofauna
WM),
the Loch Rannoch Char (Ittiofauna
WM),
the Loch Killin Char
(Ittiofauna
WM)
(BHL),
the Torgoch or Welsh Char
(Ittiofauna
WM),
the Shetland Char
(Ittiofauna
WM),
the Orkney Char (Ittiofauna
WM),
the Golden Char (Ittiofauna
WM),
the Large-mouthed Char (Ittiofauna
WM),
Haweswater's Char (Ittiofauna
WM),
and the Windermere Char (Wikipedia).
Endemic whitefish include the Vendace (WCRT),
the
Powan (Ittiofauna
WM)
(FRT),
the Schelly (CEH)
(FishBase),
and the Gwyniad
(BBC)
(Ittiofauna
WM).
Beetles found only in the UK include the Bronze Lundy Cabbage Flea
Beetle Psylliodes
luridipennis
(ARKive
WM),
a scarab Psammoporus
insularis (UK
Beetles WM)
(IUCN),
the rove beetles Thinobius
newberyi (ARKive
WM)
and Meotica anglica
(ARKive
WM),
and a weevil Protapion
ryei (ARKive
WM).
Other endemic insects include the Northern February Red
Stonefly Brachyptera
putata (Buglife
pdf) (flickr),
the
Orange-striped Stonefly Perlodes
mortoni (iNaturalist),
Fonseca's
Seed Fly Botanophila
fonsecai (Discover
Wildlife),
an
anthomyzid fly Reliquantha
variipes (AEMNP pdf), a
gnat Creagdhubhia
mallochorum (BHL),
a
chalcid wasp Omphale
erugata (ZooKeys), the Caledonian
Planthopper Cixius
caledonicus (IUCN)
(BHL),
a jumping bristletail Dilta
chateri (iNaturalist),
and the Manx
Shearwater Flea Ceratophyllus
fionnus (British
Fleas) (ResearchGate).
Endemic moths sometimes considered full species include the Northern Footman Eilema
sericea (UKMoths),
the Dorset Tineid Moth Eudarcia
richardsoni (UKMoths),
and the Slender Scotch Burnet Zygaena
loti scotica (UKMoths)
(NTS).
Other invertebrates exclusive to the United Kingdom include the British
Cave Shrimp Niphargus
glenniei (HCRS),
the Horrid Ground-weaver Nothophantes
horridus
(iNaturalist)
(BBC),
the Celtic Woodlouse Metatrichoniscoides
celticus (BMIG)
(YouTube),
a millipede Anthogona
britannica (BMIG
WM
pdf), a centipede Nothogeophilus
turki (IUCN),
a terrestrial planarian Microplana
edwardsi (GBIF),
the sponges Hymeraphia
elongata (Marine
Species WM) (ResearchGate)
and Antho
granditoxa (Habitas)
(ResearchGate)
and Cliona caledoniae
(Univ.
Amsterdam pdf),
and the possibly extinct Ivell's Sea Anemone Edwardsia ivelli (ARKive
WM) (Lancing
Nature).
Vascular plants restricted to the UK include the Lundy Cabbage (ARKive
WM),
the
Scottish Primrose (ukwildflowers.com),
the Cheddar Whitebeam (IUCN),
Stirton's Whitebeam (Nat'l
Museum Wales), Plot's Elm (flickr)
(Wikipedia), the Early Gentian (UK
Southwest) (iNaturalist),
the
Purbeck
Sea-lavendar (flickr),
the Welsh Ragwort (BSBI
WM),
the Great Orme Berry (GTC
WM)
(iNaturalist),
the Mountain Scurvygrass (ARKive
WM),
the
Shetland Mouse-ear (Plantlife
WM),
a
monkshood Aconitum
anglicum (POWO),
the
Snowdonia Hawkweed (ARKive
WM),
a monkeyflower Erythranthe
peregrina (Wikipedia),
the
Western Ramping-fumitory (iNaturalist),
the
lady’s-mantles Alchemilla
minima (ARKive
WM) and Alchemilla
sciura (ResearchGate),
the Cornish
Eyebright
(ukwildflowers.com),
the Interrupted Brome (Wikipedia),
the
Scottish Small-reed (p. 182 of BSBI
pdf), the Gransden Goldilocks Buttercup (flickr),
a bramble Rubus
halsteadensis (iNaturalist),
and the Saint Kilda Dandelion (flickr).
Endemic non-vascular plants include the Derbyshire
Feather-moss Thamnobryum
angustifolium (ARKive
WM),
the Scottish Thread-moss Pohlia
scotica (RBGE
pdf), Dixon's Thread-moss
Bryum dixonii
(RBGE),
the Welsh Bristle-moss Orthotrichum
cambrense (MNHN),
the Scottish Beard-moss Bryoerythrophyllum
caledonicum (Plantlife
WM
pdf), the
Northern Prongwort Herbertus
borealis (IUCN),
the Greater
Copperwort Cephaloziella
nicholsonii (ARKive
WM), and the Scentless Crestwort Lophocolea brookwoodiana
(twitter
WM).
Endemic lichens include Fissurina (or Graphis)
alboscripta (Fungi
of Great Britain & Ireland) and Petractis nodispora
(Dorset
Nature). Endemic fungi include Anthostomella alchemillae
(Fungi
of Great Britain & Ireland), Cortinarius britannicus
(Wikipedia),
Cuphophyllus lepidopus
(IUCN),
and Geastrum britannicum
(Norfolk
Biodiversity).
For a
list of endemic species see (Wikipedia).
An overview of endemic invertebrates is at (Buglife
pdf), A 2020 listing of endemic vascular plants is at (Semantic
Scholar pdf).
See also Anguilla, Bermuda, British
Virgin Islands, Cayman
Islands, Falkland
Islands, Montserrat,
Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, South Georgia, and Turks and Caicos Islands.