Lethrinus microdon | UAE National Red List of Marine Species: Reef-building corals, cartilaginous fishes and select bony fishes
Taxa
Lethrinus microdon | Valenciennes, 1830
Publication
Asessment status in full
Data deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
This inshore, reef-associated species occurs throughout UAE waters. Despite an Abu Dhabi stock assessment reporting it as underexploited as of 2016, catch has declined by 75% over the past two generation lengths, or since 2009. This conflicting information cannot be clearly explained, in part due to the lack of information regarding fishing effort trends. It is also heavily exploited in areas outside the UAE. Based on the potential major threat from overfishing, this species is listed as Data Deficient in the UAE. Improvements in fisheries monitoring are needed.
Assessment year
2019
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Threats listed in assessment
Overfishing is a potential major threat to this species in the UAE and surrounding areas. Corals in the UAE and Arabian Gulf have severely declined due to the increasing frequency of mass bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures, which is a consequence of climate change, as well as pervasive coastal development (Riegl et al. 2018, Burt et al. 2019).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
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Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Lethrinus microdon | Animalia | Chordata | Actinopterygii | Perciformes | Lethrinidae | Lethrinus |