The Bahamas Extinct and Endangered Species

As of July 31st, 2014, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ lists 18 endangered and 10 critically endangered species in The BAHAMAS (my Bahamas post). The Red List declares that 2 species formerly on the Red List are now extinct: the Brace's Emerald hummingbird and the West Indian Seal (Caribbean Monk Seal). The critically endangered species represent a wide variety of animals. There are birds (Bahama Oriole and Jamaica Petrel), coral (Elkhorn Coral and Staghorn Coral), fish (Jewfish - also known as Atlantic Goliath Grouper; Warsaw Grouper; and Wide Sawfish), the Hawksbill Turtle, the Somersiella sterreri caridean shrimp, and the Turks and Caicos Rock Iguana.