Research and Monitoring

      

Species Lists
Special Status Species: Pelagic Habitats

Status Codes:

Endangered: Listed as Endangered by the State of California or the Federal Government

Threatened: Listed as Threatened by the State of California or the Federal Government

Depleted: Depleted according the Marine Mammal Protection Act (special status)

Category 1: Candidate for listing by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (sufficient biological information available to support a proposal to list taxa as Endangered or Threatened)

Category 2: Candidate for listing by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (existing information indicates taxa may warrant listing, butsubstantial biological information necessary to support a proposed rule is lacking)

CSC: California Department of Fish and Game "Species of Special Concern"

SCT: California Candidate for listing as Threatened

FSS: Federal Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service Sensitive Species

SPL: Species proposed for listing

* Taxa listed with an asterisk fall into one or more of the following categories:

1. Taxa that are biologically rare, very restricted in distribution, declining throughout their range, or at a critical stage in their life cycle when residing in California.

2. Populations(s) in California that may be peripheral to the major portion of a taxon's range, but which are threatened with extirpation within California.

3. Taxa closely associated with a habitat that is declining in California (e.g., wetlands, riparian, old growth forest).

+ The coast wide status of all Chinook runs is currently being reviewed for the California, Oregon and Washington coasts. Within the MBNMS boundaries the Spring, late Fall and San Joaquin Fall runs are considered to have depressed populations.

CNPS: California Native Plant Society CNPS Codes:
1B: Rare, threatened or endangered in California and elsewhere
4: Limited distribution, which may lead to species becoming rare, threatened or endangered

		Status Codes			Occurrence in County x (yes); - (no); blank(information not available)
Common Name	Scientific Name Genus species	State Status	Federal Status	Other	Marin County	San Mateo County	Santa Cruz County	Monterey County	San Luis Obispo County
Herpetia
Green sea turtle	Chelonia mydas	None	Threatened
Hawksbill sea turtle	Eretmochelys imbricata	None	Endangered
Leatherback sea turtle	Dermochelys coriacea	None	Endangered
Loggerhead sea turtle	Caretta caretta	None	Threatened
Olive (Pacific) ridley sea turtle	Lepidochelys olivacea	None	Threatened
Birds
Rhinoceros auklet	Cerorhinca monocerata (nesting colony)	CSC	None		x FR	xAN
Ashy storm-petrel	Oceanodroma homochroa (rookery)	CSC	None		xFR
Birds listed due to breeding concerns outside MBNMS
Fork-tailed storm-petrel	Oceanodroma furcata (rookery)	CSC	None		x
Black storm-petrel	Oceanodroma melania (rookery)	CSC	None		x

Other Codes:

FR: Farallone islands
AN: Ano Nuevo island
ST: Seasonal Transient
SR: Seasonal Resident
YR: Year Round

For more information on the distribution and status of these and other species contact the California Department of Fish and Game for their Natural Diversity Data Base