List of endangered or threatened species

Annex II to the Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean Revised at the 17th COP meeting (UNEP/MAP, 2012)

Sea grasses Cymodocea nodosa (Ucria) Ascherson Posidonia oceanica (Linnaeus) Delile Zostera marina Linnaeus Zostera noltii Hornemann

Macroalgae Caulerpa ollivieri Dostál Cystoseira genus (except Cystoseira compressa) Fucus virsoides J. Agardh Laminaria rodriguezii Bornet Sargassum acinarium (Linnaeus) Setchell Sargassum flavifolium Kützing Sargassum hornschuchii C. Agardh Sargassum trichocarpum J. Agardh Gymnogongrus crenulatus (Turner) J. Agardh Kallymenia spathulata (J. Agardh) P.G. Parkinson Lithophyllum byssoides (Lamarck) Foslie (Synon. Lithophyllum lichenoides) Ptilophora mediterranea (H. Huvé) R.E. Norris Schimmelmannia schousboei (J. Agardh) J. Agardh Sphaerococcus rhizophylloides J.J. Rodríguez Tenarea tortuosa (Esper) Lemoine Titanoderma ramosissimum (Heydrich) Bressan & Cabioch (Synon. Goniolithon byssoides) Titanoderma trochanter (Bory) Benhissoune et al.

Sponges Aplysina sp. plur. Asbestopluma hypogea Vacelet & Boury-Esnault, 1995 Axinella cannabina (Esper, 1794) Axinella polypoides Schmidt, 1862 Geodia cydonium (Jameson, 1811) Petrobiona massiliana (Vacelet & Lévi, 1958) Sarcotragus foetidus (Schmidt, 1862) (synon. Ircina foetida) Sarcotragus pipetta (Schmidt, 1868) (synon. Ircinia pipetta) Tethya sp. plur.

Jellyfish Astroides calycularis (Pallas, 1766) Errina aspera (Linnaeus, 1767) Savalia savaglia Nardo, 1844 (synon.Gerardia savaglia)

Bryozoans Hornera lichenoides (Linnaeus, 1758)

Molluscs Charonia lampas (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Ch. Rubicunda = Ch. Nodifera) Charonia tritonis variegata (Lamarck, 1816) (= Ch. Seguenziae) Dendropoma petraeum (Monterosato, 1884) Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) Gibbula nivosa (Adams, 1851) Lithophaga lithophaga (Linnaeus, 1758) Luria lurida (Linnaeus, 1758) (= Cypraea lurida) Mitra zonata (Marryat, 1818) Patella ferruginea (Gmelin, 1791) Patella nigra (Da Costa, 1771) Pholas dactylus (Linnaeus, 1758) Pinna nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758) Pinna rudis (= P. pernula) (Linnaeus, 1758) Ranella olearia (Linnaeus, 1758) Schilderia achatidea (Gray in G.B. Sowerby II, 1837) Tonna galea (Linnaeus, 1758) Zonaria pyrum (Gmelin, 1791)

Crustaceans Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) Pachylasma giganteum (Philippi, 1836)

Echinoderms Asterina pancerii (Gasco, 1870) Centrostephanus longispinus (Philippi, 1845) Ophidiaster ophidianus (Lamarck, 1816)

Fishes Acipenser naccarii (Bonaparte, 1836) Acipenser sturio (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphanius fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1821) Aphanius iberus (Valenciennes, 1846) Carcharias taurus (Rafinesque, 1810) Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) Dipturus batis (Linnaeus, 1758) Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758) (*) Gymnura altavela (Linnaeus, 1758) Hippocampus guttulatus (Cuvier, 1829) (synon. Hippocampus ramulosus) Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758) Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque, 1810) (*) Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (*) Lethenteron zanandreai (Vladykov, 1955) Leucoraja circularis (Couch, 1838) (*) Leucoraja melitensis (Clark, 1926) (*) Mobula mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788) Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) Oxynotus centrina (Linnaeus, 1758) Pomatoschistus canestrini (Ninni, 1883) Pomatoschistus tortonesei (Miller, 1969) Pristis pectinata (Latham, 1794) Pristis pristis (Linnaeus, 1758) Rhinobatos cemiculus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (*) Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758) (*) Rostroraja alba (Lacépède, 1803) Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834) (*) Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837) (*) Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) (*) Squatina aculeata (Dumeril, in Cuvier, 1817) Squatina oculata (Bonaparte, 1840) Squatina squatina (Linnaeus, 1758) Valencia hispanica (Valenciennes, 1846) Valencia letourneuxi (Sauvage, 1880)

Reptiles Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880) Trionyx triunguis (Forskål, 1775)

Seabirds and Shorebirds Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli, 1769) Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758) Charadrius alexandrinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Charadrius leschenaultii columbinus (Lesson, 1826) Falco eleonorae (Géné, 1834) Halcyon smyrnensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Hydrobates pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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