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The most important element of the quality and importance of the site is the existence of nine habitat types, in a total of ten, with excellent representativity. Among them, the marine habitats, Posidonia seabeds, the sublittoral rocky seabeds, and the sea inlets, could be considered as the most representative ones in the Aegean Sea and probably even in the whole South East Mediterranean Sea.At the typical Aegean cliffs there are rare and endemic plants. Τhe partly submerged sea caves are the ideal refugia for the Monk Seals as the mammals are not disturbed from human activities. The caves of the site are likely to be very interesting, regarding their fauna and their investigation should be worthwhile. In conclusion, the site has an exceptional biogeographic value as its fauna is characterized by cycladic and eastern faunistic elements. The complex of island, also hosting rare and endemic plants, constitutes an interesting biogeographic region, at the easternmost part of Europe.OTHER IMPORTANT SPECIES WITH MOTIVATION DMammals: Stenella coeruloalba: Included in the annex IV of the Directive 92/43/EC. Reptiles: Chelonia mydas: Included in annexes II and IV of the Directive 92/43/EC. Protected by the Presidential Decree 67/1981. Included in the IUCN 1988 Red List of Threatened Animals. Mentioned in IUCN 1988 Conservation Monitoring Center. Also cited in the CORINE-Biotopes project 1988. - Technical handbook vol. 1. Podarcis ercharii: Included in the annex IV of the Directive 92/43/EC. Protected by the Presidential Decree 67/1981. Hemidactilys turcicus: Protected by the Presidential Decree 67/1981. Cyrtodactylus kotschyi: Protected by the Presidential Decree 67/1981. Cited in the CORINE-Biotopes project 1988. - Technical handbook vol. 1. Invertebrates: The important bivalvia species (Koomen P. and P.J. van Helsdingen) Pinna nobilis, is included in Annex IV of the Directive 92/43/EEC and it is protected by the Greek Law (Presidential Decree 67/81). Lithophaga lithophaga is an important species (Koomen P. and P.J. van Helsdingen), included in Annex IV of the Directive 92/43/EEC. Plants: Bongardia chrysogonum: It is a species with distribution in S.W. Asia; in the IUCN Red Data List (1993) it is cited as extinct/endangered in Greece (it has only been found at N. Peloponnesos and Astipalaia), while it is not threatened in the World (Stearn & Webb, 1993). It is also included as an endangered species in the National Red Data Book (unpublished). The following species are included in the IUCN Red Data List in the category of threatened species: Allium bourgeaui ssp. cycladum [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Allium sipyleum [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988)]; Allium longanum [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988)]; Vulnerable in World (1993)], Campanula laciniata [Indeterminate, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Eryngium amorginum [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Limonium frederici [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Origanum tournefortii (=O. calcaratum) [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Allium pilosum [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Pimpinella pretenderis [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)], Staehelina fruticosa [Rare, in Greece (1993), Europe (1988), World (1993)]. Of these C. laciniata, E. amorgium, L. frederici and P. pretenteris are also protected by the Greek Law (Presidential Decree 67/1981). A. longanum is also cited in the Corine checklist of threatened plants. Fibigia lunarioides, Convolvulus scammonia are protected by the Presidential Decree 67/1981. Cynara cornigera is an east-mediterranean species, with interesting distribution in the Aegean area, occurring in Southern Greece, Crete and in the Aegean and out of Greece only in Cyprus. Lactuca acanthifolia (= Scariola acanthifolia) has a similar distribution occurring though only in Hydra in Peloponnisos and only in SW Turkey out of Greece. Silene fabaria and Achillea cretica are Aegean region endemics (only in SW Turkey out of Greece). Also Daphne gnidioides is endemic to the Greek mainland, the Aegean islands, S and SW Anatolia. Scrophularia heterophylla (=Scrophularia heterophylla ssp. heterophylla) is a Balkan endemic. Tordylium aegaeum is endemic to Cyclades, East Aegean Islands, Rodos, S and W Anatolia.Notes1) Alyssoides cretica = Lutzia cretica; Elymus farctus ssp. rechingeri = Elymus rechingeri; 2) The IUCN characterizations given concern the plant’s status in Greece unless otherwise stated. |
