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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Andrew L Rhyne conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, project PI.

Michael F Tlusty conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, project Co-PI.

Joseph Szczebak performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Robert J Holmberg performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of related data:

https://www.aquariumtradedata.org

Funding

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation provided funding for this work. NOAA provided the data in the form of invoices acquired from USFWS.


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