FWS Adds Five Animals From American Samoa to Endangered Species List

The Fish and Wildlife Service will add five species of animals from American Samoa to the Endangered Species List. The agency’s final rule (here) lists as endangered two native land snails (Eua zebrina and Ostodes strigatus), the American Samoa distinct population segment of the friendly ground-dove, the Pacific sheath-tailed bat (South Pacific subspecies) (Emballonura semicaudata semicaudata), and the mao (Gymnomyza samoensis). Import and export restrictions set by the agency’s final rule take effect Oct. 24.