IUCN Red List Assessment
Red List Category
DD
Data Deficient
Red List Criteria
Version
3.1
Year Assessed
2008
Assessor/s
Reeves, R.R., Crespo, E.A., Dans, S., Jefferson, T.A., Karczmarski, L., Laidre, K., O’Corry-Crowe, G., Pedraza, S., Rojas-Bracho, L., Secchi, E.R., Slooten, E., Smith, B.D., Wang, J.Y. & Zhou, K.
Reviewer/s
Brownell Jr., R.L. & Cooke, J. (Cetacean Red List Authority)
Contributor/s
Justification
There is inadequate information to assess this species against the criteria and therefore it must remain listed as Data Deficient pending a credible estimate of population size and/or better information on population trend. Heaviside’s Dolphins have a limited range and are not particularly common anywhere. Several threats have been identified, including entanglement in a variety of inshore fishing gear (e.g., beach seines, purse seines, trawls, and gillnets).
History
- 1996Data Deficient
- 1994Insufficiently Known(Groombridge 1994)
- 1990Insufficiently Known(IUCN 1990)
- 1988Insufficiently Known(IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
