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Kontikia andersoni – found on Tresco in 1984 it is native to Australia and/or New Zealand.

Australopacifica coxii – a flatworm from Australia and found on Tresco in 1975.

The Australian flatworm ( Australoplana sanguinea) – a flatworm from Australia and New Zealand and first found on Tresco in 1960.

Only three or four of the fourteen species are native with two recorded on Tresco. The Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society published bird reports from the 1930s onwards and the Isles of Scilly Bird Group (founded 2000) took over publishing their own annual reports – Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Review – which included other groups of animals such as the diptera.įourteen species of terrestrial flatworms have been recorded in Britain and Ireland with five found on the Isles of Scilly.

For example, William Bristow visited the islands on three occasions from 1927–1934, recording spiders including on some of the uninhabited islands. It was in the 20th century when regular accounts can be found for other animal groups following visits from naturalists who often published their observations in the scientific literature. Newspapers recorded some of the fish caught but there was little recording of other groups of animals. Egg collecting was allowed and in the Natural History Museum there are, in the collection, forty-five eggs taken between 18 from Annett, even though it was a bird sanctuary. In the 19th century, following the fashion of the time, birds were shot and stuffed, especially by Augustus Smith and his predecessors on Tresco. William Borlase published The Natural History of Cornwall in 1758, commenting on the number of rabbits, and Jonathan Couch's A Cornish Fauna gave an account of some the animals known in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

There are few pre-19th-century records for animals. 5.1 Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers).