[Coral-List] Endangered Species??

[Fautin, Daphne G.]

I think the status attaches to the species, not the name.  In a different situation, when the species was misidentified, so the name in legislation referred to a species other than the one for which protection was sought, look at the potential quandry of the medicinal leech in a paper by Siddall et al.  http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/274/1617/1481.full.pdf+html.  Note that although the title makes the point the ID was confirmed through molecular means, the animals were originally -- and continue to be fully -- distinguishable morphologically.


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Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 11:17 AM
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Subject: [Coral-List] Endangered Species??

Dear List,

With regard to coral taxonomy, the following occurred to me: If the
Endangered Species Act lists (e.g., because I don't know what is in the
ESA) Diploria strigosa and the name is changed to Pseudodiploria
strigosa (Budd et al 2012), is the coral sitting out there on the reef
still protected??

John

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