[Coral-List] Follow-up: NOAA lists 20 new corals

Wed Sep 10 18:52:22 EDT 2014

It would be quite incredible if A. rudis occurs in American Samoa or anywhere else in the Pacific Ocean - it is an Indian Ocean species- according to Wallace 1999; Wallace, Done & Muir 2012*.  Some of the other ranges indicated on the factsheet are also surprising. Really need to use specimen-based records for this group - many species are not possible to identify with 100% accuracy in situ even by experts.  Carden Wallace and I have created a website to help interpret this group (www.coralsee.org<http://www.coralsee.org>) and the Museum has the largest global collection of staghorns, a large collection for the other Indo-Pacific genera including many mesophotic corals plus there's an ID service.

It's definitely an odd choice of Acropora/ Isopora species but it's a start!

Dr. Paul Muir
Acting Curator, Corals

Checkout our staghorn coral website www.coralsee.org

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*Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora in the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Nature vol. 57

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From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Jennifer Moore - NOAA Federal
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2014 10:35 PM
To: Hughes, Terry
Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Follow-up: NOAA lists 20 new corals

Hi Terry,
Thanks for the follow-up.  I did not mean that we believe that all of the petitioned corals occur withing US waters.  That is what the petitioner used as a filter for identifying the corals for which they petitioned us.
 Through our status review we verified the ranges of the corals.  Those species with documented occurrence in US waters are identified in the table on page 2 of this fact sheet ( http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/stories/2014/08/docs/corals_fact_sheet.pdf).
Cheers,
Jennifer

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Hughes, Terry <terry.hughes at jcu.edu.au<mailto:terry.hughes at jcu.edu.au>>
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> A small correction - " The petition was based on occurrence in US
> waters...". As far as I'm aware, 5 of the 15 Pacific and Indian Ocean
> corals listed by NOAA have not been recorded in US waters.
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> I agree with you that the 10 that do overlap with US waters tend to
> have large geographic ranges - typically around 5 million square kilometres.
> Some of them are also abundant, often in places that are rarely
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> Hughes, T.P., S.R. Connolly, and S.A. Keith. 2013. Geographic ranges
> of reef corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) in the Indo-Pacific.
> Ecology (Data Paper) 94: 1659. Ecological Archives E094-150.
> http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/13-0361.1
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> Wallace, C. 1999. Staghorn Corals of the World. CSIRO Publishing,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> [mailto:
> coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>] On Behalf Of Jennifer Moore -
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> Subject: [Coral-List] Follow-up: NOAA lists 20 new corals
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> In response to the posting on the coral list last week of NOAA's coral
> final listing rule under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA),
> questions have been raised on the list about the selection of listed
> species. As explained in the summary at the beginning of the final
> rule (link below), these ESA listings were in response to a 2009
> petition by the US-based environmental group Center for Biological
> Diversity to list 83 reef-building corals that occur in US waters and
> were on the IUCN red-list at that time. The ESA requires NOAA to
> respond to petitions by evaluating the extinction risk of the
> petitioned species, thus NOAA only considered the 83 species in the
> petition, not all 800-some reef-building corals in the world. The
> petition was based on occurrence in US waters, and those areas are
> generally not within the ranges of species with the smallest ranges
> (i.e., the species with the greatest extinction risk). Therefore, the
> final rule does not represent NOAA's view of the most at-risk
> reef-building coral species in the world, but rather the most at-risk species of the 83 species in the petition.
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> We welcome any questions on the listing.  Please contact me or Lance
> Smith in out Pacific Islands Region (lance.smith at noaa.gov<mailto:lance.smith at noaa.gov>).
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