List of Endangered species in American Samoa



This is a list of Endangered species in American Samoa according to the IUCN Red List.

This list was last updated 2019-09-14

 

This list contains only species that have been assessed for the IUCN Red List. It is therefore not representative of all the species in the country.

Species counts by country: Total | Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Reptiles | Vascular Plants.

scientific_namecommon_nametaxonidcategory
Emoia samoensis Samoa Skink 196618 EN
Pterodroma alba Phoenix Petrel 22698001 EN
Emoia adspersa Micronesian Skink 178217 EN
Holothuria lessoni Golden Sandfish 180275 EN
Holothuria whitmaei Black Teatfish 180440 EN
Emoia lawesi Olive Small-scaled Skink 178528 EN
Cheilinus undulatus Undulate Wrasse 4592 EN
Papilio godeffroyi Samoan swallowtail 122530997 EN
Samoana conica 19885 EN
Samoana thurstoni 19886 EN
Emballonura semicaudata Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat 7669 EN
Megaptera novaeangliae Oceania subpopulation Humpback Whale 132832 EN
Trochomorpha apia 22256 EN
Acropora rudis 132913 EN
Eua zebrina Striped Eua snail 8135 EN

 

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Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups:
  • Extinct (EX) – beyond reasonable doubt that the species is no longer extant.
  • Extinct in the wild (EW) – survives only in captivity, cultivation and/or outside native range, as presumed after exhaustive surveys.
  • Critically endangered (CR) – in a particularly and extremely critical state.
  • Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered.
  • Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 red list criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention.
  • Near threatened (NT) – close to being at high risk of extinction in the near future.
  • Least concern (LC) – unlikely to become extinct in the near future.
  • Data deficient (DD)
  • Not evaluated (NE)