List of CEPHALOPODA species in South Africa



This is a list of CEPHALOPODA in South Africa 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
Sepia robsoni 162510 DD
Sepia dubia 162532 DD
Sepia tuberculata 162545 DD
Sepia faurei 162551 DD
Sepia pulchra 162553 DD
Sepia insignis 162561 DD
Sepia adami 162615 DD
Muusoctopus berryi 163053 DD
Sepia angulata 162677 DD
Abralia siedleckyi 163157 DD
Megalocranchia maxima 163263 DD
Mastigoteuthis hjorti 163345 DD
Octopoteuthis indica 163366 DD

 

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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)