Research Article

Anthropomorphic Factors Influencing Spanish Conservation Policies of Vertebrates

Table 4

Taxonomic groups at class and order levels highly considered as threatened in red and legal listing as well as in conservation priority setting.

Taxonomic bias
Class levelOrder level

Red listsInternationalFishAcipenseriformes, Anguilliformes (fish)
NationalFishAcipenseriformes, Accipitriformes (fish)
SubnationalFishAcipenseriformes, Cyprinodontiformes (fish)

Legal listsInternationalAmphibiansCetacea (mammals), Falconiformes (birds)
NationalReptilesAcipenseriformes, Cyprinodontiformes (fish)
SubnationalReptilesAcipenseriformes, Cyprinodontiformes (fish)

Funding allocation to vertebrates’ conservationInternationalAmphibiansProcellariiformes, Gaviiformes, Pelecaniformes (birds)
NationalMammalsCetacea (mammals)
SubnationalMammalsLagomorpha (mammals)