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Tessa Mazor, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Salit Kark, Hugh P. Possingham. 2014. Large-scale conservation planning in a multinational marine environment: cost matters. Ecological Applications 24:1115–1130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-1249.1

Appendix A. Detailed information of threatened species used in this study.

Table A1. List of species used in this study, taxa group, scientific name, common name and IUCN red list status in both the Mediterranean and the Globe (IUCN 2012).

Taxa group

Scientific name

Common name

IUCN Red List status

Mediterranean Red List

Global Red List

Marine mammals

Balaenoptera borealis

Sei whale

EN

EN

Balaenoptera physalus

Fin whale

EN

EN

Delphinus delphis
(Mediterranean subpopulation)

Short-beaked common dolphin

EN

 

Eubalaena glacialis
(vagrant in the Mediterranean Sea)

North Atlantic right whale

EN

EN

Monachus monachus

Monk Seal

CR

CR

Physeter macrocephalus

Sperm whale

VU

VU

Tursiops truncatus ssp. ponticus

Common bottlenose dolphin

EN

 

Native fishes
(jawless and bony fishes)

 

 

 

 

Dentex dentex

Common dentex

VU

 

Dicentrarchus labrax

European seabass

NT

 

Epinephelus aeneus

White grouper

NT

NT

Epinephelus marginatus

Dusky Grouper

EN

EN

Hippocampus guttulatus

Long-snouted seahorse

NT

 

Hippocampus hippocampus

Short-snouted seahorse

NT

 

Labrus viridis

Green wrasse

VU

VU

Merluccius merluccius

European hake

VU

 

Opeatogenys gracilis

 

VU*

VU*

Platichthys flesus

European flounder

NT

 

Pleuronectes platessa

European plaice

NT

 

Pomatoschistus microps

Common goby

CR

 

Pomatoschistus minutus

Sand goby

VU

 

Pomatoschistus tortonesei

 

EN*

EN*

Psetta maxima

Turbot

NT

 

Sciaena umbra

Brown meagre

VU

 

Scomber colias

Atlantic chub mackerel

NT

 

Syngnathus acus

Greater pipefish

NT

 

Syngnathus taenionotus

Dark-flank pipefish

EN*

EN*

Syngnathus tenuirostris

Narrow-snouted pipefish

NT*

NT*

Syngnathus typhle

Broad-nosed pipefish

NT

 

Thunnus thynnus

Atlantic bluefin tuna

EN

 

Umbrina cirrosa

Shi drum

VU

 

Xiphias gladius

Swordfish

NT

 

Seabirds

Larus audouinii

Audouin's Gull

NT

NT

Pelecanus crispus

Pelican

VU

VU

Puffinus griseus

Sooty Shearwater

NT

NT

Puffinus mauretanicus

Balearic Shearwate

CR

CR

Puffinus yelkouan

Yelkouan Shearwater

NT*

NT*

Sea turtles

Caretta caretta

Loggerhead sea turtle

EN

EN

Chelonia mydas

Green sea turtle

EN

EN

Sharks and rays
(cartilaginous fishes)

Alopias vulpinus

Long-tailed, common thresher shark

VU

VU

Carcharhinus plumbeus

Sandbar shark

EN

VU

Carcharias taurus

Sand tiger shark

CR

VU

Carcharodon carcharias

Great white shark

EN

VU

Centrophorus granulosus

Gulper shark

VU

VU

Cetorhinus maximus

Basking shark

VU

VU

Dasyatis centroura

Roughtail stingray

NT

 

Dasyatis pastinaca

Common stingray

NT

 

Dipturus batis

Common skate

CR

CR

Dipturus oxyrhynchus

Longnosed skate

NT

NT

Gymnura altavela

Spiny butterfly ray

CR

VU

Heptranchias perlo

Harpnose sevengill shark

VU

NT

Hexanchus griseus

Bluntnose sixgill shark

VU

NT

Isurus oxyrinchus

Ahortfin mako shark

CR

VU

Lamna nasus

Porbeagle shark

CR

VU

Leucoraja circularis

Sandy skate

CR

VU

Leucoraja fullonica

Shagreen ray

NT

NT

Leucoraja melitensis

Maltese skate

CR*

CR*

Leucoraja naevus

Cuckoo ray

NT

 

Mobula mobular

Giant devil ray

EN

EN

Mustelus asterias

Starry smooth-hound

EN

 

Mustelus mustelus

Common smooth-hound

EN

VU

Myliobatis aquila

Common eagle ray

NT

 

Odontaspis ferox

Smalltooth sand tiger, bumpytail ragged-tooth

VU

VU

Oxynotus centrina

Angular roughshark

CR

VU

Pteroplatytrygon violacea

Pelagic stingray

NT

LC

Pristis pectinata

Small-tooth sawfish

CR

CR

Pristis pristis

Common sawfish

CR

CR

Raja clavata

Thornback ray

NT

NT

Raja undulata

Undulate Ray

EN

EN

Rhinobatos cemiculus

Black-chin guitarfish

EN

EN

Rhinobatos rhinobatos

Common guitarfish

EN

EN

Rostroraja alba

Bottlenose Skate, Spearnose Skate, White Skate

CR

EN

Scyliorhinus stellaris

Nursehound

NT

NT

Sphyrna zygaena

Smooth hammerhead

VU

VU

Squalus acanthias

Spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish

EN

VU

Squatina aculeata

Sawback Angelsharks

CR

CR

Squatina oculata

Smoothback angelshark

CR

CR

Squatina squatina

Angelshark

CR

CR

 

FigA1

Fig. A1. Species richness of 77 threatened marine species (IUCN 2012) in the Mediterranean Sea.


 

Literature cited

IUCN. 2012. The IUCN red list of threatened species: Spatial data download. Available at http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. (accessed 5th August 2012

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