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Marine fauna
Ferruginous limpet
Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791
A gastropod mollusc endemic to the western Mediterranean, it is considered the most endangered marine invertebrate in the basin. It lives firmly…
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VU
Birds
European shag
Gulosus aristotelis desmarestii (Payraudeau, 1826)
A black seabird with metallic green sheen, present year-round along the rocky coasts of the Sinis and around Mal di Ventre Island.…
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Birds
Scopoli’s shearwater
Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli, 1769)
A pelagic seabird that nests in colonies on the islands of the western Mediterranean. Mal di Ventre Island hosts a breeding colony…
Species profilePhoto credits: Manuel CABALLER — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0; Andreas Trepte — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5; Telegro — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0