Updates made to species designations collation.

The list shown below itemises the lists that have been added to the species designations collation between April 2004 and Oct 2007. In some cases these were partial updates to existing lists.

Date of update	Source list and explanation of change made
Apr 2008	Incorporates updated taxon version keys and standard taxon names from the Natural History Museum/NBN species dictionary. (Taxon version keys are used as unique identifiers for species). All taxa now have a taxon version key with the exception of the taxa designated as "least concern".
Dec 2007	Following requests by users, we have made the designation abbreviations unique to each designation. This can be seen most clearly in the sheet “summary for each taxon” Examples are RedList_GB_post2001:NT RedList_Global_post94:CR CITES:A BirdsDir:A2.2 UKBAP2007
Dec 2007	A sheet called “complex synonyms” has been added to the downloadable spreadsheet. This helps users to trace designated species that have been amalgamated with others into a single entry on the NBN species dictionary. Several are these are merely different syntactical conventions for subspecies. This list includes several species highlighted by Mark Gurney (RSPB) and also by Local Record Centres. Note that it does not include the lichen species outlined below possibly because the synonymns have not yet been defined within the NHM dictionary. Porpidia musiva is included within P. cinereoatra, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC Thelidium microbolum is included within T. fontigenum, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC and NR Verrucaria carnea is included within V. hochstetteri, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC V. papillosa is included within V. viridula, and therefore there should be a single status entry of LC
Dec 2007	A series of checks by Mark Gurney at the RSPB on the previous version of the JNCC taxon designations spreadsheet have highlighted a number of errors that have since been corrected. Many of these were also picked up as a result of the work on matching the taxa to the latest NHM/NBN dictionary.
Dec 2007	Further checks have been undertaken against the “current” or recommended names and taxon version keys on the latest NHM/NBN species dictionary. This work was undertaken by Dave Chambers (JNCC) and Graham French (NBN technical liaison officer). This work has been necessary to prepare for the JNCC collation of designations to be submitted to the NHM/NBN dictionary. This list will be based entirely on the “current” Taxon Version keys, and will exclude those species judged in the latest RDB as “Least Concern” Note that the master list still contains a number of species that do not yet have a TV key. These are mostly hieracium (hawkweeds).
Dec 2007	All global IUCN categories have been checked against the 2007 IUCN red list and any that do not match have been archived. Note that the latest list (identifiable on the master list as source = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2007) only includes critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable species.
Dec 2007	Seahorses (hippocampus) have been moved from CITES annex D to CITES annex B.
Dec 2007	Deb Procter (JNCC) has reviewed the list of species that are still listed under either the original Red Data Book for Insects (Shirt 1987) or the Invertebrate (Bratton) Red Data Books and have no subsequent Review or Red List. This has resulted in some beetle records being removed entirely from the Shirt 1987 list (their status was reviewed in 1992/1994 - A review of the scarce and threatened beetles of Great BritainParts 1 and 2 (Hyman, P.S. revised and updated by M.S. Parsons.) ). Other species have been removed because they are listed in the 1992/1994 reviews under a synonym. Details of these changes are available from JNCC.
Oct 2007	Incorporation of revised UK BAP list of priority species requiring conservation action (1149 taxa) The vascular plant list of globally threatened species has also been added. NBN/NHM dictionary recommended taxon version keys have been revised and updated (though this needs to be subject to final checks by the NHM now incorporates millipedes and centipedes, formerly ommited in error.
July 2007	Correct typographic errors and web links.
Feb 2007	Tidying up of taxonomy for vascular plants.
Jan 2007	Lichen list from A conservation evaluation of British lichens, R.G. Woods & B.J. Coppins. British Lichen Society, London, 2003 extended to include Nationally rare and scarce species as well as species of "least concern"
Jan 2007	Revised list of nationally scarce mosses and liverworts taken from Bryophyte Red List (British Bryological Society, 2005) + Preston, C.D. (2006). A revised list of nationally scarce bryophytes. Field Bryology 90: 22-30.
Jan 2007	Revisions to vascular plant lists of rare and scarce species taken from data used in the red data book review and A tool for assessing the current conservation status of vascular plants on SSSIs in England: May 2006, ENRR 690 (Leach & Rusbridge)
Jan 2007	Revisions to Vascular plant listing red data list for Great Britain to reflect changes agreed in 2006. This involved significant revisions to hieracium and taraxacum.
Jan 2007	Addition of Habitats and Species Directive Annex 5
Jan 2007	Rationalisation of categories relating to red data listings. The global red listings have been separated from the Uk red listings. The UK red listings have been sub-divided into those based on 1. the pre 1994 IUCN guidelines 2. the 1994 IUCN guidelines 3. the 2001 IUCN guidelines The descriptions of the designations for each of these categories has been revised
June 2006	Errors in the previous collation for diptera have been corrected. The discrepencies included 140 "Nationally notables" on Falk 91 that have effectively had this status removed in the Empidoidea review. We have updated the database accordingly by setting the status in Falk 91 from Current to Archived for these species and putting in an archived date of 1/5/2005.
15/9/05	Several invertebrate lists have been extended to include notable species that were previously excluded. (Notable species are below Red Data Book species in terms of threat status). This has also meant that some entries recorded on the British Red Data Book of Insects (Shirt 1987) have been removed because they have now been replaced by a "notable" record in a subsequent review.
10/6/2005	Falk, S.J. & Chandler, P.J. 2005. A review of the scarce and threatened flies of Great Britain. Part 2: Nematocera and Aschiza not dealt with by Falk (1991). Species Status 2: 1-191. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough
10/6/2005	Falk, S.J. & Crossley, R. 2005. A review of the scarce and threatened flies of Great Britain. Part 3: Empidoidea. Species Status 3: 1-136. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
10/05/2005	The Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain - 2005 Cheffings, C. and Farrell, L. (Editors)
03/03/2005	Habitats and Species directive - review of Annexes
04/05/2004	Birds directive review of annexes
01/04/2004	A conservation evaluation of British lichens, R.G. Woods & B.J. Coppins. British Lichen Society, London, 2003
01/04/2004	A provisional review of the Vascular Plant Red Data Book 2002 - NOW ARCHIVED. - Superceded by The Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain - 2005 Cheffings, C. and Farrell, L. (Editors)
01/04/2004	Birds of Conservation Importance - JNCC 1996
01/04/2004	British Red Data Book (Mosses and Liverworts) 2001
01/04/2004	Population status of birds in the UK - Birds of conservation concern 2002-2007
01/04/2004	Review of the status of charophytes (stoneworts) - N Stewart (unpublished)