Mirounga leonina | New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2005

Taxa
Mirounga leonina | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2005
NRL Record ID
92226
Location
Countries in Assessment
New Zealand
Country ISO code(s)
NZL
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Off
Scope (Assessment)
National
Taxon
Taxonomic Group
Vertebrates
Taxonomic Group Level 2
Mammals
Habitats and Ecology
Ecological system type
Terrestrial system
No
Freshwater system
No
Marine system
No
Is there a map available in assessment?
Not_assigned
Assessed status
Asessment status in full
1 Nationally critical
Assessment status abreviation
CR
Assessment status criteria
Status criteria: 1, 2a
About the assessment
Assessment year
2005
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
Hitchmough, R., Bull, L., Cromarty, P (compilers). 2007. New Zealand Threat Classification System lists- 2005. Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conservation.
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
Assessor affiliation specific
Government
Criteria system
Criteria system specifics
New Zealand Threat Classfication System
Criteria system used
Non-IUCN
Criteria Citation
Molloy, J.; Bell, B.; Clout, M.; de Lange, P.; Gibbs, G.; Given, D.; Norton, D.; Smith, N.; Stephens, T. 2002: Classifying species according to threat of extinction. A system for NewZealand. Threatened species occasional publication 22, 26 p.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/MultiPageDocumentTOC.aspx?id=42704; http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/TSOP22.pdf; http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap244.pdf
Supplementary Links

Department of Conservation: About; Department of Conservation: Conservation

Endemism
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Conservation
Conservation Measures

Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:

Further information
Redlist Notes

Qualifier(s): Secure Overseas?, Human Induced; Note(s): Australasian population declining rapidly, but world-wide population roughly stable. Total NZ population 250-260 (<10 on Campbell Is., rest on Antipodes Is.). Down from c. 420 in 1990s.. Threatened Overseas qualifier changed to Secure Overseas?, as world population roughly stable despite Australasian and Indian Ocean declines.

Scientific Name Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus
Mirounga leonina Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Phocidae Mirounga