Given the discussion that is going on it's good to know that Mr.Carlton
already gave multiple reasons in his paper why these species probably
didn't go extinct due to overcollecting by amateurs:
http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/6/499
Sincerely, Erick
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