FWS Lists Tanzanian Coelacanth as Threatened Species

The Fish and Wildlife Service is listing Tanzanian populations of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have gone extinct at the same time as dinosaurs but discovered alive in the 1930s, as a threatened species, in a final rule (here). The listing takes effect April 28. Importation and exportation of the African coelacanth is already prohibited as a result of the species' listing in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.