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Marine Species in CITES
Some marine species whose trade is regulated by CITES include the following:
Appendix I (hundreds of species):
- All beaked whales
- Almost all great whales (species subject to management by the International Whaling Commission)
- All marine turtles
- Coelacanths
- Dugongs
- Irrawaddy River Dolphin
- Shortnose sturgeon
- Six fur seal species
- Totoaba
- Three marine dolphin species (Australian snubfin dolphin, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, and Atlantic humpbacked dolphin)
- Two porpoise species
- Most sawfish species
Appendix II (thousands of species):
- All antipatharian (black coral) species
- All dolphins not listed in Appendix I
- All giant clam species
- All stony coral species
- Basking shark
- Great White Shark
- Hammerhead Sharks (Scalloped, Smooth and Great)
- Humphead wrasse
- Manta Rays
- Most sturgeon species
- Oceanic Whitetip Shark
- Porbeagle Shark
- Queen conch
- Seahorses
- West Greenland stock of minke whales
- Whale shark
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