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

Thu Sep 11 14:59:53 EDT 2014

With respect to Indian Ocean species, the U.S. has military 
installations in the Indian Ocean -- such as at Diego Garcia. While it 
can easily obtain exceptions, I know the U.S. DoD generally has to 
follow U.S. environmental laws.  Does this apply to overseas 
installations as well?

On 9/10/2014 6:52 PM, Paul Muir wrote:
> 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.
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> It's definitely an odd choice of Acropora/ Isopora species but it's a start!
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> 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
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> 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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>>   Dear Jennifer,
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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
>> visited by scientists.
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>> There are numerous online databases of coral ranges, including:
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>> IUCN - Coral Ranges
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>> http://www.iucnredlist.org/search
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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,
>> Australia 438pp.
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>> http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/2187.htm
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>> The first two were largely derived from  earlier maps in Charlie
>> Veron's Corals of the World, which you can also find online.
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>> Cheers, Terry
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>> Professor Terry Hughes FAA
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>> Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
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>> James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811
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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 -
>> NOAA Federal
>> Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2014 2:29 AM
>> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
>> 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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>> Cheers,
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>> Jennifer
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