CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network

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SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW 22 Continued • Palea steindachnerii (wattle-necked softshell turtle): • Distribution: Vietnam, China. • Population: Endangered (IUCN 2000). • Threats: Highly valuable in food trade (IUCN 2012). • Trade: Listed in Appendix III (China). • Pelodiscus spp. (except P. sinensis, farmed in very high numbers for food markets): • Distribution: Until recently only P. sinensis recognized (IUCN 2000); DNA analyses support recognition of three further species (Yang et al. 2011; Stuckas and Fritz 2011); 1) P. axenaria (Hunan softshell turtle): China, where exploitation pressure for food markets extremely high; often traded as P. sinensis; 2) P. maackii (Northern Chinese softshell turtle): China, Russian Federation, Korea; and 3) P. parviformis (Lesser Chinese softshell turtle): China. • Population: Declining. • Threats/Trade: Continue to be exploited for food and possibly farm founder stock, resulting in a decline in abundance. • Rafetus swinhoei (Yangtze giant softshell turtle): • Distribution: China, Vietnam. • Population: Critically Endangered (IUCN 2000). Only four known individuals (one female); largest softshell turtle in the world. • Threats/Trade: Pollution, habitat loss, intensively exploited for food trade and would be for pet trade if captured alive. b) Transfer of Chitra chitra and C. vandijki from Appendix II to Appendix I • Chitra chitra (Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle): • Distribution: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. • Population: Critically Endangered (IUCN 2000). • Threats: Hunting for food, collection for pet trade, egg harvesting and bycatch; highly prone to over-collection due to predictable nest site selection and timing of nesting (IUCN 2000). • Trade: Intensively exploited for food and international pet trade (IUCN 2000); 368 exported from Malaysia from 2003-2009. • Chitra vandijki (Burmese narrow-headed softshell turtle): • Distribution: Myanmar. • Population: Described in 2003, not yet assessed by IUCN; proposed as Critically Endangered; rare to very rare. • Threats/Trade: Intensively exploited; habitat threatened by mining and fishing with explosives. Prop. 39 Machalilla frog Epipedobates machalilla • Distribution: Ecuador; discovered 1995. • Population: Near Threatened (IUCN 2004). • Threats: Agriculture, wood harvest and climate change. • Trade: Epipedobates spp. commonly found in the international pet trade; trade data for E. machalilla not available. SUPPORT • Proponent is sole range State and has prepared proposal at request of AC (AC25 Summary Record). • E. machalilla not included in original listing of genus because at the time it was included in Colostethus; it cannot be automatically included in the Appendices because it is outside the scope of the genus Epipedobates as this was understood at time of listing. • Proposal is necessary to avoid having to annotate listing of Epipedobates spp. to specifically exclude E. machalilla. Ecuador Inclusion in Appendix II • Epipedobates machalilla should be included in Appendix II to address nomenclature issues
SPECIES/PROPONENT/PROPOSAL CURRENT STATUS OF SPECIES SSN VIEW Prop. 40 Southern gastric-brooding frog Rheobatrachus silus Australia Deletion from Appendix II Prop. 41 Northern gastric-brooding frog Rheobatrachus vitellinus Australia Deletion from Appendix II • Distribution: SE Queensland, Australia; geographic range limited to
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