IUCN Red List Assessment
Red List Category
LC
Least Concern
Red List Criteria
Version
3.1
Year Assessed
2011
Assessor/s
Wahle, R., MacDiarmid, A., Butler, M., Cockcroft, A. & Chan, T.Y.
Reviewer/s
Collen, B., Livingstone, S. & Richman, N.
Contributor/s
Batchelor, A., De Silva, R., Dyer, E., Kasthala, G., Lutz, M.L., McGuinness, S., Milligan, HT, Soulsby, A.-M. & Whitton, F.
Justification
Metanephrops challengeri has been assessed as Least Concern. While this species is harvested in parts of its range, it is not thought that this constitutes a major threat to the global population at the present time owing to recent conservation measures such as the Quote Management System.
