Dataset for: Translating globally threatened marine species information into regional guidance for the Gulf of Mexico

This dataset contains all available distribution maps for 1,843 marine species present across the entire Gulf of Mexico. For vertebrates, it includes 1483 bony fishes, 83 sharks/rays, 27 marine mammals, 44 seabirds, and 5 sea turtles. Invertebrate and plant maps include 60 reef-building corals, 6 mangroves, 9 seagrasses, 26 sea cucumbers, 30 cone snails, 6 oysters, 43 cephalopods, and 21 lobsters. It also includes an ESRI shapefiles of our defined geographic range of the Gulf of Mexico, a species richness map, a map of all the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) threatened species richness, a map of all IUCN Data Deficient (DD) species richness. Selected results from the associated paper Strongin et al., 2020 are also included, namely a classification of all threats impacting these species and a comparison of species protections under IUCN, Endangered Species Act (ESA), and NORMA 059. This dataset supports the publication: Strongin, Kyle, Beth Polidoro, Christi Linardich, Gina Ralph, Steven Saul, and Kent Carpenter. (2020). Translating globally threatened marine species information into regional guidance for the Gulf of Mexico. Global Ecology and Conservation, 23, e01010. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01010.