Species used for the trade

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Almost every species of reptile and amphibian that are not protected by CITES Appendix I or
by Indonesian law has the potential of becoming an interesting pet animal. Even protected species
are now being bred in captivity for the pet market.

Latin Name	Collecting Area	Status	Notes
Snakes:
Candoia aspera	IJ	A
Candoia carinata	IJ,M	A
Chondropython (Morelia) viridis		A	CB only
Liasis fuscus	IJ	C
Liasis macklotti	NTT	C
Liasis (Apodura) papuanus	IJ	R
Morelia amethistina	IJ,M	C
Morelia boeleni	IJ	R
Morelia spilota	IJ	C
Python curtus	K,S	A
Python molurus bivittatus		A	CB only
Python reticulatus	J,S,K,SW,NTT,M	A
Python timorensis		C	CB only
Acrochordus granulatus	J	C
Acrochordus javanicus	J,S,K	C
Homalopsis buccata	J	A
Enhydris plumbea	J	A
Enhydris enhydris	J	A
Ahaetulla mycterizans	J	C
Ahaetulla prasina	J,S	C
Chrysopelea ornata	K	C
Chrysopelea paradisi	K	C
Dendrelaphis formosus	K	C
Dendrelaphis picta	J	C
Dendrelaphis punctulatus	IJ	C
Elaphe flavolineata	J	C
Elaphe janseni	SW R
Elaphe radiata	J	A
Elaphe subradiata	NTT	C
Gonyosoma oxycephala	J	C
Ptyas koros	J	A
Ptyas mucosus	J	A
Rhabdophis subminiata	J	C
Stegonotus spp.	IJ,M	A
Xenochrophis piscator	J	A
Xenochrophis trianguligera	J	C
Xenochrophis vittata J		A
Acanthophis praelongus	IJ	A
Acanthophis antarcticus	IJ,M	C
Bungarus candidus	J	C
Bungarus fasciatus	J	C
Bungarus javanicus	J	R
Demansia spp.	IJ	C
Micropechis ikaheka	IJ	R
Naja naja ssp.	J,S,K	A
Ophiophagus hannah	J,S	C
Oxyuranus scutellatus	IJ	C
Pseudonaja spp.	IJ	C
Trimeresurus albolabris	J,S	C
Trimeresurus borneensis	K	R
Trimeresurus sumatranus	S	R
Tropidolaemus wagleri	S,K,SW	C
Lizards
Varanus (prasinus) beccarii	M	C
Varanus dumerili	S,K	A
Varanus doreanus (kalabeck)	IJ,M	C
Varanus (prasinus) kordensis	IJ	C
Varanus jobiensis (karlschmidti)	IJ	C
Varanus gouldii (panoptes) horni	IJ	A
Varanus prasinus		C	CB only
Varanus rudicollis	K,S	A
Varanus salvadori	IJ	R
Varanus salvator	J,S,K,SW,NTT,M	A
Lanthanotus borneensis	K	R
Takydromus sexlineatus	J	A
Ctenotus spp.	IJ	A
Dasia olivacea	J	C
Dasia smaragdina	IJ,M,SW	A
Egernia frerei	IJ	C
Emoia cyanurum	IJ,M,SW	A
Lygosoma spp.	J	A
Mabuya multifasciata	J	A
Sphenomorphus mulleri	IJ	A
Tiliqua scincoides	IJ	A
Tiliqua gigas		C	CB only
Tribolonotus gracilis	IJ	R
Tribolonotus novaeguineae	IJ	C
Tropidophorus apulus	SW	A
Aeluroscalabotes felinus	K	R
Cosymbotus platyurus	J	A
Cyrtodactylus consobrinus	K	C
Cyrtodactylus fumosus	J	C
Cyrtodactylus lousiadensis	IJ	C
Cyrtodactylus pelagicus	J	C
Gehyra baliola	IJ	C
Gehyra mutilata	J	A
Gekko gecko	J	A
Gekko tuberculosus (monarchus)	S	R
Gekko stentor	K	R
Gekko vittatus	M,IJ	A
Hemidactylus frenatus	J	A
Calotes cristatellus	M,SW	A
Calotes jubatus	J	A
Chlamidosaurus kingi		C	CB only
Ctenophorus spp.	IJ	C
Draco volans	J	A
Gonocephalus borneensis	K	C
Gonocephalus chameleontinus	J	C
Gonocephalus grandis	K	A
Gonocephalus leiogaster	K	C
Gonocephalus sumatranus	S	R
Hydrosaurus weberi	M	A
Japalura spp.	K	C
Lophognathus temporalis	IJ,M	A
Turtles
Manouria emys	S,K	C
Indotestudo forsteni	SW,M	C
Chelodina siebenrocki	IJ	A
Chelodina parkeri	IJ	R
Chelodina reimanni	IJ	C
Emydura albertisi (subglobosa)	IJ	A
Elseya branderhorsti	IJ	A
Elseya schultzei	IJ	C
Callagur borneensis	K	C
Cuora amboinensis	J,S,K	A
Cyclemys spp.	J,S,K	A
Geoemyda yuwonoi	SW	R
Heosemys spinosa	K,S	A
Notochelys platynota	S,K	C
Siebenrockiella crassicollis	J,S	A
Amyda cartilagenia	J,S,K	A
Dogania subplana	J	C
Pelochelys bibroni	IJ,S	R
Frogs:
Rana barramica	J	R
Rana cancrivora	J	A
Rana chalconota	J	A
Rana erythrea	J	A
Rana hosii	J	C
Rana limnocharis	J	A
Rana macrodon	J	A
Rana nicobariensis	J	A
Philautus spp.	J,K	A
Rhacophorus coletti	K	A
Rhacophorus leucomystax	J	A
Rhacophorus otilophus	K	C
Rhacophorus reinwardti	J	A
Microhyla spp.	J	A
Kaloula baleata	J	A
Kaloula pulchra	K	A
Leptobrachium nigrops	J,K	R
Lymnodynastes convexsciusculus	IJ	A
Litoria ceurulea	IJ	A
Litoria infrafrenata	IJ,M	A
Litoria nasuta	IJ	A
Litoria rubella	IJ	A
Bufo asper	J,S	A
Bufo biporcatus	J	A
Bufo melanostictus	J	A
Cacophryne borbonica	K	C
Pseudobufo subasper	K	C

Abbr.	Island
J	Jawa (Java)
K	Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo)
S	Sumatra
SW	Sulawesi (Celebes)
M	Maluku (the Moluccas)
NTT	Nusa Tenggara Timur (Eastern Lesser Sundas)
IJ	Irian Jaya (Indonesian Western New Guinea)

Other abbreviations

A = Abundant: thousands can be collected if needed

C = Common: always available in adequate numbers

R = Rare: difficult to get in any quantity

CB = Captive Bred

Usually, a species is rare only until somebody finds out how they can be collected in quantity, either by special techniques or better understanding of their life habits. Some species, such as land tortoises, are common only in a certain habitat and "common" may not be a good indicator of their conservation status. They are habitat dependent and efforts to save their habitat (high montane forests) would be high on the priority list of anybody wanting to preserve these species.

Please note that the above criteria are mostly NOT based on any scientific population study. These are based on personal commercial experience plus a bit of field information.

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