Overview of the conservation status of Mediterranean anthozoa

María del Mar Otero, Catherine Numa, Marzia Bo, Covadonga Orejas, Joaquim Garrabou, Carlo Cerrano, Petar Kružic´, Chryssanthi Antoniadou, Ricardo Aguilar, Silvija Kipson, Cristina Linares, Alejandro Terrón-Sigler, Justine Brossard, Diego Kersting, Pilar Casado-Amezúa, Silvia García, Stefano Goffredo, Oscar Ocaña, Erik Caroselli, Manuel Maldonado, Giorgio Bavestrello, Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti and Baris Özalp, 2017. Overview of the conservation status of Mediterranean anthozoa. Overview of the conservation status of Mediterranean anthozoans. IUCN, Malaga, Spain. x + 73 pp.

Abstract: This report presents the conservation status of the anthozoans occuring in the Mediterranean Sea, based on the assessment of 136 species using the IUCN Red List methodology. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level to guide appropriate conservation actions in order to improve their status.

Keywords: Marine biodiversity, Red Data, Red List, Mediterranean Sea