JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE CheckUst of reptiles and amphibians listed in the CITES appendices JNCC REPORT fSSN 0^3-8il)'»J Checklist of reptiles and amphibians hsted in the CITES appendices JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Report distribution Report Number: No. 237 Contract Number/JNCC project number: F71-12-332 Date received: 9 June 1995 Report title: Checklist of reptiles and amphibians listed in the CITES appendices Contract title: Revise Checklists of CITES species database Contractor: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 ODL Comments: A further herpetological edition in the Checklist series begun by NCC in 1979, revised and brought up to date with current CITES listings Restrictions: None Distribution: JNCC report collection 2 copies Nature Conservancy Council for England, HQ, Library 1 copy Scottish Natural Heritage, HQ, Library 1 copy Countryside Council for Wales, HQ, Library 1 copy A T Small, Copyright Libraries Agent, 100 Euston Road, London, NWl 2HQ 5 copies British Library, Legal Deposit Office, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ 1 copy Chadwick-Healey Ltd, Cambridge Place, Cambridge, CB2 INR 1 copy BIOSIS UK, Garforth House, 54 Michlegate, York, YOl ILF 1 copy CITES Management and Scientific Authorities of EC Member States total 30 copies CITES Authorities, UK Dependencies total 13 copies CITES Secretariat 5 copies CITES Animals Committee chairman 1 copy European Commission DG XI/D/2 1 copy World Conservation Monitoring Centre 20 copies TRAFHC International 5 copies Animal Quarantine Station, Heathrow 1 copy Department of the Environment (GWD) 5 copies Foreign & Commonwealth Office (ESED) 1 copy HM Customs & Excise 3 copies M Bradley Taylor (ACPO) 1 copy Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report No. 237 Checklist of reptiles and amphibians hsted in the CITES appendices compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre Prepared under contract from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. Established in 1988 as a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. WCMC is managed as a joint-venture between the three partners in the WorUi Conservation Strategy and its successor Caring For The Earth: lUCN - The World Conservation Union, UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme, and WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature. The Centre provides information services on the conservation and sustainable use of species and ecosystems and supports others in the development of their own information systems. Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Cortunittee Copyright: 1995 Joint Nature Conservation Committee ISBN: 1st edition published 1979 ISBN 0-86139-075-X 2nd edition published 1981 ISBN 0-86139-095^ 3rd edition published 1983 ISBN 0-86139-224-8 4th edition published 1988 ISBN 0-86139-465-8 5th edition published 1993 ISBN 1 -87370 M6-2 6th edition published 1995 ISSN 0963-8091 Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1995). Checklist of amphibians and reptiles listed in the CITES Appendices. Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report No. 237. Further copies of this report are available from: David H.W. Morgan International Policy Branch Joint Nature Conservation Committee Monkstone House City Road Peterborough PEl IJY United Kingdom Tel: -1-44 1733 62626 Fax: -1-44 1733 555948 The designations of geographical entities in this report, and the presentation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of JNCC or WCMC concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Contents Acknowledgements 1 ANURA 46 Introduction i Bufonidae 46 Explanatory notes ii Dendrobatidae 47 Introductory references V Microhylidae 52 Myobatrachidae 52 Ranidae 52 Taxonomic List REFERENCES 53 REPTILIA 1 TESTUDINES 1 INDEX 71 Dermatemydidae 1 Emydidae 1 Testudinidae 2 Cheloniidae 6 Dermochelyidae 8 Trionychidae 8 Pelomedusidae 9 Chelidae 10 CROCODYLIA 10 Alligatoridae 10 Crocodylidae 11 Gavialidae 13 RHYNCHOCEPHALIA 13 Sphenodontidae 13 SAURIA 13 Gekkonidae 13 Agamidae 16 Chamaeleonidae 17 Iguanidae 25 Lacertidae 26 Cordylidae 26 Teiidae 29 Scincidae 30 Xenosauridae 30 Helodermatidae 30 Varanidae 30 SERPENTES 34 Boidae 34 Colubridae 42 Elapidae 43 Viperidae 44 AMPHIBIA 46 CAUDATA 46 Ambystomatidae 46 Cryptobranchidae 46 Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from UNEP-WCIVIC, Cambridge littp://www.arcliive.org/details/cliecklistofrepti95wcmc Acknowledgements Introduction This checklist was compiled by the World In April 1991, the Nature Conservancy Council Conservation Monitoring Centre under contract for England, Countryside Council for Wales and F71-12-332 from the Joint Nature Conservation Scottish Natural Heritage acting together through Committee. the Joint Nature Conservation Committee were appointed by the Secretary of State for the The document was compiled by Brian Environment as the United Kingdom's Scientific Groombridge and produced by Helen Corrigan Authority for Animals under the Convention on and Julie Reay. Mary Cordiner and Jessica Pullen International Trade in Endangered Species of provided other assistance. Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). CITES regulates international trade in wild animals and plants and We are grateful to E.N. Arnold for advice and in products derived from them, to help to ensure access to information resources in the Amphibian their conservation on a worldwide scale. and Reptile section at The Natural History Museum (London), and thank Stephen Edwards, The intention of this work is to provide a Chairman CITES Nomenclamre Committee, for combined list of amphibian and reptile species assistance. David Denison provided a program to appearing in Appendices I, II and III of CITES, renumber the extensive reference list to this indicating both the current Appendix and the volume. lUCN conservation stattis category. David Morgan of the JNCC International Policy This revised edition incorporates additions and Branch is thanked for providing expert advice and amendments to the CITES appendices up to and guidance throughout. including those made at the 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Florida in November Timothy Johnson 1994 (effective from 16 February 1995). The Head, Species Unit lUCN stams categories given here are those World Conservation Monitoring Centre current at the time of preparation, as represented 219 Huntingdon Road in the 1994 lUCN Red List of Threatened Animals Cambridge (Groombridge, 1993). CB3 ODL United Kingdom For background material on the rationale of the lUCN threat categories, readers are referred to Tel; +44 1223 277314 Groombridge (1993); for background on the Fax: +44 1223 277136 workings of CITES, recommended works are email: [email protected] Favre (1989) and Wijnstekers (1992). For information by country on the diversity and stams of amphibians, reptiles and other taxonomic groups, and for a general review of biodiversity, readers are referred to WCMC (1992) and WCMC (1994). In a publication of this nature, it is inevitable that users will discover entries that need correcting or updating. The publishers would be grateful if their attention could be drawn to these entries, and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre would be grateful to receive details of such changes so that they can be incorporated in the database from which this publication is produced. Explanatory notes Boidae (Stimson, 1969; Sheplan and Schwartz, Each species is typically represented by a block 1974; Underwood and Stimson, 1990). of text; including scientific name (with Colubridae (several sources, see individual alternatives). Common names in the three official entries). CITES languages (where available), geographic Elapidae and Viperidae (Klemmer, 1963; Leviton, range, CITES Appendix, Red List category, and 1968). numerical reference codes. Where a sp)ecies has component populations or formal subspecies Common names which are treated differently by CITES, the species entry is subdivided ^propriately. Common names and trade names appear below the scientific names; few of the listed taxa have Scientific names regularly or universally used common names. In some cases, identical trade names appear to be Nomenclature follows that used in the CITES used for different taxa. Appendices for the forms appearing therein. Geographical range For each taxon listed, the scientific name and authority is given first, with alternative names After the scientific and common names of each given in parentheses on the following line. In the taxon, the geographical range is given in terms of majority of cases these alternatives are the most political units, listed in alphabetical order. In frequent synonyms in current use. In a few cases, several cases, particularly where islands are these are recently proposed taxonomic changes concerned, further distribution details are given not yet in common use, and in others the thus 'Indonesia: Sumatra'. When the name of a scientific name in parentheses is that accepted by country is given as part of the range of a certain taxonomists, but not the name used in the CITES species, that species not occur Appendices. may throughout the country and may even be of only peripheral occurrence. The sequence of families within orders also conforms to the CITES Appendices (thus the A question mark '?' has been used in front of a amphibian families are in alphabetical order while country to indicate that there is