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Heteromycteris capensis

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14436/
https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T15622639A15623347.en
https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T15622639A15623347.en
 
Title Heteromycteris capensis
 
Creator Weerts, S P
Munroe, T A
Nair, Rekha J
 
Subject Conservation
 
Description This small-sized flatfish is a marine, estuarine-dependent species, spawning at sea but with juveniles
dependent on estuarine nursery areas. Its reported distribution range is from Walvis Bay, Namibia to
Maputo Bay, Mozambique, but its estuarine distribution is largely restricted to the lower reaches of
warm- and cool temperate estuaries in South Africa. It can be locally common, but no quantitative
population trend data are available. However, its core nursery habitat extent in permanently open
estuaries covers less than 70 km2; as such, its Area of Occupancy based on nursery habitat is potentially
as small as 140 km2, but certainly less than 2,000 km2, meeting the threshold for a threatened listing
under criterion B2. Moreover, this habitat is under significant threat from freshwater flow reduction,
pollution, resource exploitation and habitat modification.
 
Date 2020
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier Weerts, S P and Munroe, T A and Nair, Rekha J (2020) Heteromycteris capensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020. ISSN 2307-8235 (online)