Le Naturaliste Vendéen, Numéro 2 (2002)
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This note relates the discovery of the Heart-shaped Tongue Orchid which was thought to have disappeared from Vendée in France as it had not been observed for decades.
In 1911, an excursion of the French Botanical Society made it possible to list all the notable plants of the damp hill of Les Hautes Termelières in the North of La Roche-sur-Yon (in Vendée, France). Nearly a century later, this note states the main plants that are to be found on the hill and more particularly 11 species of ferns.
This note relates the discovery of on species of land snails of the Vendée kind in "marais des Bourbes" (Olonne-sur-Mer) on the Vendée coast. This is the second time Vertigo moulinsiana, a rare species in Vendée, has been found.
Anax parthenope is a very rare dragonfly in Vendée. This article relates how this species bred once only in 2001 on a sand dune in Noirmoutier island.
This note states the number of grounded sperm whales on the French Atlantic coast and more especially on the coast of Vendée between 1900 and 2002.
Clé de détermination des Coléoptères Lucanides et Scarabéides de Vendée et de l’Ouest de la France
(2002)
It is an identification key of species of beetles called Lucanoideas and Scarabaeoideas already observed in Vendée and in Western France or likely to be found there some day or other. 160 species have been described, often illustrated with maps of their habitats in France.
Following the 1989-90 winter storms, remains of several straight-tusked elephants as well as a rich quaternary paleoflora were found on the strand of La Parée beach in Brétignolles-sur-Mer (Vendée, France). The story of these findings, the diggings of the bones, the dating and the paleoenvironment of the deposits are mentioned in this article. The sediments are old "peat bogs" which belong to two distinct eras : Pleistocene (peat bog holding the remains of straight-tusked elephants) and Holocene (peat bog showing tracks of Bovidae and prints of tools, and higher peat bogs).
Recent extension works of the quarry of La Gouraudière in Mauzé-Thouarsais (in Deux-Sèvres), and excavation works for the water reservoirs to irrigate the cereal fields in Le Bernard (in Vendée) led to the collection of an interesting fauna of ammonites among which several species are close to the téthysian ones.