IUCN Red List update - June 2024

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DesertRhino150

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An update for the IUCN Red List was released today. These are things I immediately noticed that may be of interest:

Among mammals:
  • Cuvier's hutia has been moved from Endangered to Least Concern
  • Iberian lynx has been moved from Endangered to Vulnerable
  • Other mammals (other hutias, the Gould's mouse, all three orangutans, the three large African cats, Mexican agouti and crowned guenon) have all been assessed, but their statuses have not changed
Among reptiles:
  • The Gran Canaria giant lizard has moved from Least Concern to Critically Endangered
  • The Ibiza wall lizard has moved from Near Threatened to Endangered
  • The asp viper has moved from Least Concern to Vulnerable
  • The Hermann's tortoise has moved from Near Threatened to Vulnerable
  • The El Hierro giant lizard has moved from Critically Endangered to Vulnerable
  • The Lilford's wall lizard has moved from Endangered to Near Threatened
  • The ocellated lizard and four-lined snake have both moved from Near Threatened to Least Concern
  • The rinkhals has been split into two species - the Southern rinkhals,
    Hemachatus haemachatus, is Least Concern, while the Nyanga rinkhals, H. nyangensis, is Critically Endangered, possibly extinct
A small number of amphibians have been assessed, mainly a mixture of Atelopus and various Southeast Asian frogs and toads.

Among cartilaginous fishes:
  • The ornate eagle ray has moved from Endangered to Critically Endangered
  • The ocellated eagle ray has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered
  • The leopard whipray, Himantura leoparda, mangrove whipray, Urogymnus granulatus, and Jenkin's whipray, Pateobatis jenkinsii, have all moved from Vulnerable to Endangered
  • The smalltooth sand tiger shark has moved from Vulnerable to Endangered
Among bony fishes, there have been a lot of new updates, of a mixture of what seems to mainly be small coral reef fish and mainly South American freshwater fish. Some updates of interest:
  • A popular aquarium fish, the Endler's livebearer, Poecilia wingei, has been assessed for the first time and listed as Endangered
  • Two species of piranha have been assessed as threatened, both endemic to small areas in Venezuela - the Endangered Caribbean piranha, Serrasalmus neveriensis, and the Critically Endangered painted Caribbean piranha, Serrasalmus nalseni
  • The South Georgia icefish, Pseudochaenichthys georgianus, has been assessed for the first time and listed as Endangered.
Among arthropods:
  • Several European dung beetles and European glow-worms and fireflies have been assessed; the European glow-worm is now listed as Near Threatened
  • A hundred species of Central American bee have now been assessed
  • A small handful of more butterflies, crickets and crabs have been assessed, as has the Gila mayfly of New Mexico, now listed as Endangered
  • A total of 183 species of Southern African arachnid, mainly spiders but also three species of Ascension Island pseudoscorpions, have been assessed
Among molluscs, a mixture of South Pacific snails and European freshwater mussels and clams have been assessed, but I do not know enough about their previous statuses to determine what could be of interest - certainly in the case of the European freshwater mussels, the trend seems to be going downward.
 
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