Endangered Ocean Animals List
Some of the animals here are also listed among the endangered marine mammals while some are not mammals at all but are also endangered.
Endangered ocean animals list. Its flowing green stalks play an important role in coastal ecosystems where they act as nursery grounds for small larval fish and are eaten by the also-endangered West Indian. Currently the g reat hammerhead Sphyrna mokarran and s calloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini are both listed as endangered and the smooth hammerhead Sphyrna zygaena is listed as Vulnerable VU. Indian Ocean Comoros Fijian Blossom Bat.
Indian Ocean Comoros Comoro Black Flying Fox. Hammerheads face many threats that other shark species do too such as entanglement in marine debris and being caught as bycatch. No known living individuals.
Hawksbill turtles and kemps ridley turtles. Extinct in the Wild. What are the most endangered animals in the ocean.
Marine animals teetering above extinction on the critically endangered list are coelacanths southern bluefin tuna hawksbills and leatherback sea turtles. Below are the top 10 most endangered marine animals in the world. Latitudes only Common Brown Lemur.
The black-footed ferret is one such animal. Other lesser-known species are also facing extinction. Caribbean monk seal Stellers sea cow.
The Mediterranean Monk Seal is critically endangered species of sea animal because of fishing and other human activities. Threatened Endangered Species MarineBio Conservation Society. Whale Shark Rhincodon typus.