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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Guardian community team

Nominate your UK invertebrate species of the year

A Dragonfly
A rare male southern migrant hawker dragonfly, Aeshna affinis, perching on a reed in the UK. Photograph: Sandra Standbridge/Getty Images

Though we love to focus on the vertebrates, more than 95% of the world’s known living creatures – at least 1.3m species – are spineless. These amazingly diverse animals include insects (at least a million), arachnids, snails, crustaceans, corals, jellyfish, sponges and echinoderms.

And now we want you to help us celebrate them.

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