Slovakia
Vascular
plants unique to Slovakia include Daphne
arbuscula (botany.cz),
Cyclamen fatrense
(nahuby.sk),
Hesperis slovaca (nahuby.sk),
Pulsatilla subslavica
(fotonet.sk),
Gentianella fatrae
(fotonet.sk),
a
grass Poa margilicola
(fotonet.sk),
a buttercup Ranunculus altitatrensis
(CBIS),
a rowan Sorbus pekarovae
(fotonet.sk),
Sorbus margittaiana
(fotonet.sk), Sorbus amici-petri (UPJŠ
pdf file), an eyebright Euphrasia
stipitata
(CBIS),
and a hawthorn Crataegus
domicensis (Botanisk
Have & Museum). An endemic non-vascular plant is the
moss
Ochyraea tatrensis
(IUCN
Red List).
Invertebrates known only from Slovakia include a ground beetlesDuvalius microphthalmus (napant.sk
pdf file),
a rove beetle Leptotyphlus
kovaci (Akademický
repozitár pdf file), a weevil Otiorhynchus roubali
(Chrzaszcze
Polski), the bush crickets Isophya fatrensis (Tetrix)
and Isophya beybienkoi
(p. 16 of TVE
pdf file), the snails Spelaeodiscus
tatricus (biolib.cz)
and Chondrina tatrica
(AnimalBase),
the cave-dwelling springtails Arrhopalites
slovacicus (Fauna
Europaea) and Neelus
koseli (Zootaxa
pdf file), and a fairy shrimp Chirocephalus
slovacicus (eol).
An important terrestrial ecoregion for endemic species is
the Carpathian Montane Forests (EoE)
and the Slovak Karst (SAS Kosice)
has important cave faunas. For more on the endemic species of Slovakia
see (p. 8 of CBD
pdf file).