Appendix 9: Species of international conservation concern on the RBCMA (based on Wildtracks 2005). Common name Scientific name Conservation Listed Status on RBCMA Status MAMMALS (11) Yucatan black Alouatta pigra Endangered, IUCN Red List, Common throughout, high howler monkey Trade Controls CITES forest Baird’s Tapir Tapirus bairdii Endangered, IUCN Red List, Frequent, widespread Trade Controls CITES West Indian Trichecus manatus Vulnerable, Trade IUCN Red List, Ranges into New River Lagoon Manatee Controls CITES Elegant Myotis Myotis elegans Near-threatened IUCN Red List List Recorded Jaguar Near-threatened Near-threatened, IUCN Red List, Widespread, frequent to Trade Controls CITES common Puma Panthera concolor Near-threatened IUCN Red List widespread and fairly frequent? Status uncertain Great false Vampyrum spectrum Near-threatened IUCN Red List seen at La Milpa ruins vampire bat Status uncertain Neotropical river Lutris longicaudis Trade controls CITES Status fairly frequent? Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi Trade controls CITES Status recorded Ocelot Leopardus pardalis Trade controls CITES Status frequent Margay Leopardus wiedii Trade controls CITES Status frequent BIRDS (12) Yellow-headed Amazona oratrix Endangered, IUCN Red List, Common, RBCMA pine parrot Trade Controls CITES savannah is nationally White-crowned Columba leucocephala Near-threatened IUCN Red List Rare, marginal range but pigeon recorded at Hill Bank Olive-sided Contopus cooperi Near-threatened IUCN Red List Regular passage migrant Great curassow Crax rubra Near-threatened IUCN Red List Widespread, frequent Harpy eagle Harpya harpyia Near-threatened, IUCN Red List, Re-introduced to western Trade Controls CITES RBCMA, Status unknown Black rail Laterallus jamaicensis Near-threatened IUCN Red List Status uncertain, rare or local Black Catbird Melanoptila glabirostris Near-threatened IUCN Red List Local Ocellated Turkey Meleagris ocellata Near-threatened IUCN Red List locally common Crested eagle Morphnus guianensis Near-threatened IUCN Red List Very uncommon Golden-winged Vermivora chrysoptera Near-threatened IUCN Red List recorded passage migrant on warbler western RBCMA Jabiru Jabiru mycteria Trade controls CITES frequent on wetlands, breeder Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus Trade controls CITES uncommon winter Falco visitor/transient REPTILES (7) Central American Dermatemys mawii Endangered IUCN Red List Common, deeper rivers are river turtle, important habitat Mexican giant mud Staurotypus triporcatus Near-threatened IUCN Red List frequent to common in deeper turtle water-bodies Narrow-bridged Claudius angustatus Near-threatened IUCN Red List Recorded, infrequently seen musk turtle Morelet’s Crocodile Crocodylus morelettii Near-threatened, IUCN Red List, Common, all water-bodies Trade Controls CITES Tabasco mud turtle Kinosternon acutum Near-threatened, IUCN Red List, Recorded, La Milpa. Trade Controls CITES Common slider Trachemys scripta Near-threatened IUCN Red List regularly seen in water-bodies Boa constrictor Boa constrictor Trade controls CITES Widespread, fairly common PLANTS (12) Pigeonplum, Quiina schippii Endangered IUCN Red List frequent in high forest, eastern mosquito stick RBCMA Fiddlewood Vitex gaumeri Endangered IUCN Red List One of commonest species, all forest types Prickly Yellow Zanthoxylum ekmanni Endangered IUCN Red List Occurs (NB – sight records and stock surveys usually lump all Bastard prickly Zanthoxylum caribaeum Endangered IUCN Red List Occurs, collected on western yellow RBCMA Black prickly yellow Zanthoxylum Endangered IUCN Red List Occurs, collected on western juniperinum RBCMA Vara blanca Aegiphila monstrosa Endangered IUCN Red List Occurs, collected on western RBCMA Cedar Cedrela odorata Vulnerable IUCN Red List Widespread, locally common to fairly common Palm Gaussia maya Vulnerable IUCN Red List frequent, western RBCMA Silly Young Pouteria amygdalina Vulnerable IUCN Red List frequent, western RBCMA Mahogany Swietenia macrophylla Vulnerable IUCN Red List Common, all forest types White Mylady Aspidosperma Near-threatened IUCN Red List frequent, all forest types but megalocarpon mainly western Mata raton Zamia polymorpha Near-threatened IUCN Red List Fairly common, savannas