“…In the Mediterranean during the 20th century, the species was extirpated from mainland France and Corsica, Spain and the Balearic Islands, Italy and the Tuscan archipelago and Sardinia, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Tunisia (Sergeant et al 1978, Marchessaux 1989, Johnson et al 2006). In the Atlantic, the species was formerly found along the northwestern coast of Africa up to Mauritania, and in the Macaronesia archipelagoes, with at least four colonies located in Dakhla Bay in the Western Sahara, Santa Maria Island in the Azores, the Madeira Islands, and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands (Monod 1948, Machado 1979, Hern andez 1986, Marchessaux 1989, Silva et al 2009, Brito 2012). However, more populations are thought to have existed, as indicated by toponyms (Monod 1932).…”