West Coast Species Listed in the Doc Threat Classification19

Threat Status	Marine	Estuarine	Coastal terrestrial
Nationally critical	NZ sea daisy Southern elephant seal Orca	Kotuku	Open Bay Islands leech Open Bay Islands gecko Open Bay Islands skink
Nationally endangered	Southern right whale Hector’s dolphin Fiordland crested penguin	Australasian bittern Crested grebe Grey duck	–
Nationally vulnerable	Salvin’s mollymawk	Reef heron	Lepidium flexicaule Caspian tern
Serious decline	–	–	Western weka
Gradual decline	Sthn little blue penguin Sooty shearwater Red billed gull White-fronted tern White pointer shark Basking shark	Longfin eel Giant kokopu	Banded dotterel Sand tussock Pingao Speckled skink
Sparse	Sixgill shark Mottled brotula	South Island fernbird Black shag Marsh crake Spotless crake Shortjaw kokopu Lamprey Crassula ruamahanga	Seal cress
Range restricted	Westland petrel Bottlenose dolphin Giant triplefin Black coral (Mottled clingfish?)*	–	–
Data deficient (precise threat status Porphyra spp. seaweed remains uncertain)	Bangia spp. seaweed Pygmy sperm whale Pygmy right whale Andrews’ beaked whale Gray’s beaked whale Shepherd’s beaked whale Goose-beaked whale	–	Littoral spiders
Coloniser**	–	Royal spoonbill Welcome swallow Spur-winged plover	–
Migrant**	Blue whale Minke whale Long-finned pilot whale Humpback whale	Bar-tailed godwi	–

* likely classification of a recently discovered species
** these two status classes are sourced from the same DOC threatened species dataset (Hitchmough, unpub DOC data),
but are not listed in the cited publication

19 Hitchmough et al 2007