Cyprus Endangered Species

As of May 17th, 2015, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ for CYPRUS in the Mediterranean Sea lists 13 critically endangered species and 20 endangered species. Fortunately, Cyprus does not have any extinct species on the IUCN Red List. Cyprus' endangered species are the Akamas Centaury thistle plant, Angel Shark, Casey's Larkspur delphinium, European Eel, Kythrean Sage, Mediterranean Monk Seal, Pallid Squill plant, Slender-billed Curlew bird, Sociable Lapwing bird, Troodos Rockcress plant, Erysimum kykkoticum plant, Glaphyra bassettii longhorn beetle, and Propomacrus cypriacus beetle. The longhorn beetle is found only in a maximum 100 square kilometer (~39 sq. mile) range in western Cyprus, while the Propomacrus beetle is only found in a 10 sq. kilometer (3.9 sq. mile) area. Even more limited in geographic distribution is the Erysimum kykkoticum plant, which lives in a 3-hectare (0.03 sq. kilometer or ~0.0116 sq. mile) area.

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