JOINTS NATURE \=^ CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Checklist of fish and mvertebrates Usted in the CITES appendices JNCC REPORT (SSN0963-«OStl JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Report distribution Report Number: No. 238 Contract Number/JNCCprojectnumber: F71-12-332 Date received: 9 June 1995 Report tide: Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices Contract tide: Revised Checklists ofCITES species database Contractor: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 ODL Comments: A further fish and invertebrate edition in the Checklist series begun by NCC in 1979, revised and brought up to date with current CITES listings Restrictions: Distribution: JNCC reportcollection 2 copies Nature Conservancy Council forEngland, HQ, Library 1 copy Scottish Natural Heritage, HQ, Library 1 copy Countryside Council forWales, HQ, Library 1 copy A T Smail, Copyright Libraries Agent, 100 Euston Road, London, NWl 2HQ 5 copies British Library, Legal Deposit Office, Boston Spa, Wetherby, WestYorkshire, LS23 7BQ copy 1 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 copy 1 European Commission DG Xl/D/2 copy 1 World Conservation Monitoring Centre 20 copies TRAFFIC International 5 copies Animal Quarantine Station, Heathrow 1 copy Department ofthe Environment (GWD) 5 copies Foreign & Commonwealth Office (ESED) copy 1 HM Customs & Excise 3 copies M Bradley Taylor (ACPO) copy 1 ^\(\\ Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report No. 238 Checklist of fish and invertebrates Usted in the CITES appendices compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre : Prepared under contract from theJoint Nature Conservation Committee by the Worid Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. Established in 1988 as acon^jany limited by guarantee with charitable status. WCMC is managed as ajoint-venture between the three partners in the World Conservation Strategy and its successor Caringforthe 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 ofspecies and ecosystems and supports others in the development oftheir own information systems. Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Conmiittee Copyright; 1995 Joint Nature Conservation Committee "ISBN 1st editionpublished 1988 ISBN 0-86139^66-6 2nd edition published 1993 ISBN 1-87370M7-0 3rd edition published 1995 ISSN 0963-8091 Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1995). Checklist offish and invertebrates listed in the CITES Appendices. Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report No. 238. Further copies ofthis report are available from: David H.W. Morgan International Policy Branch Joint Nature Conservation Committee (UK CITES Scientific Authority) Monkstone House City Road Peterborough PEl IJY United Kingdom Tel: +44 1733 62626 Fax: -1-44 1733 555948 The designations ofgeographical entities in this report, and the presentation ofthe material, do not imply the expression ofany opinion whatsoever on the part ofJNCC or WCMC concerning the legal status ofany country, tenitory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation ofits frontiers or boundaries. Contents Acknowledgements I STYLOMMATOPHORA 19 Introduction i Achatinellidae 19 Explanatory notes ii Camaenidae 21 Introductory References vi Paryphantidae 21 MESOGASTROPODA 22 Taxonomic List - Fish Strombidae 22 CERATODONTIFORMES REFERENCES —NON-CORAL Ceratodontidae INVERTEBRATES 23 COELACANTmFORMES Latimeriidae Taxonomic list - Corals ACIPENSERIFORMES HELIOPORACEA 31 Acipenseridae Helioporidae 31 Polyodontidae STOLONIFERA 31 OSTEOGLOSSIFORMES Tubiporidae 31 Osteoglossidae ANTIPATHARLV (Black Corals) 32 CYPRINIFORMES Antipathidae 32 Cyprinidae Castostomidae SCLERACTINIA 44 Astrocoeniidae 44 SILURIFORMES Pocilloporidae 45 Pangasiidae Acroporidae 48 Poritidae 54 PERCIFORMES Siderastreidae 58 Sciaenidae Agariciidae 61 Micrabaciidae 64 REFERENCES — nSH Fungiacyathidae 65 Fungiidae 66 Rhizangiidae .70 Taxonomic list - non-Coral Invertebrates Oculinidae 72 Pectiniidae 74 LEPIDOPTERA 7 Mussidae 76 Papilionidae 7 Merulinidae 81 Faviidae 83 ARANEAE 11 Trachyphylliidae 93 Theraphosidae 11 Meandriniidae 94 Anthemiphylliidae 95 SCORPIONES 12 Caryophylliidae 95 Scorpionidae 12 Flabellidae 109 Guyniidae 112 ARHYNCHOBDELLAE 13 Dendrophyllidae 113 Hirudinidae 13 MILLEPORINA 120 VENEROIDA 14 Milleporidae 120 Tridacnidae 14 STYLASTERINA 121 UNIONOIDA 15 Stylasteridae 121 Unionidae 15 REFERENCES - CORALS 129 INDEX AND SYNONYMY 153 Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from UNEP-WCIVIC, Cambridge littp://www.arcliive.org/details/cliecklistoffislii95wcmc 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 fromthe Joint Nature Conservation Scottish Natural Heritage acting together through Committee. The compilers forparticular theJoint Nature Conservation Committee were taxonomic groups were: Helen Corrigan (fishes), appointed by the Secretary ofSlate for the Julie Hawkins (black corals), Tim Inskipp (all Enviromnent as the United Kingdom's Scientific taxa), Helen Smith (non-coral invertebrates) and Authority for Animals under the Convention on Elizabeth Wood (hard corals). The document was International Trade in Endangered Species of produced by Helen Corrigan and Julie Reay. Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). CITES regulates international trade in wild animals and plants and The volume builds on an earlier edition, and we in products derived from them, to help to ensure gratefully acknowledge the numerous contributors their conservation on a worldwide scale. to that edition, particularly the authors: Patricia C. Almada-Villela (compiler); N. Mark Collins The purpose ofthis publication is to provide a (Insecta and Araneae); Tim Inskipp (all taxa) and taxonomic list offish and invertebrates included Simon J. Moore (Antipatharia). in Appendices I, 11 and III ofthe Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of For their assistance in producing the current Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) together with their edition, the following WCMC staffare also conservation status category in the 1994lUCN thanked: Esther Byford, Lorraine Collins, Mary RedList ofThreatened Animals. Few Cordiner, Lisa Grigg, Tim Inskipp, Neil Jenking, invertebrates and a small proportion offishes David Kirk, Jessica Pullen and Rosemarie have received a status assessment, consequently Warwick. the Red List contains only a small sample ofthe species from these groups that may in fact be The Natural History Museimi (London) provided threatened. access to information on taxonomy and distribution for material held in their collections. This document incorporates additions and amendments to the CITES ^pendices up to and Dr A.M. Smith is thanked for reviewing the including those made at the 9th Meeting ofthe Brachypelma species section. Conference ofthe Parties in Florida in November 1994 (effective from 16 February 1995). David Denison is thanked for providing a program to renumber the extensive reference list Conservation status is provided using the 1994 to this volume. lUCNRedList ofThreatened Animals. For background material on the rationale ofthe lUCN David Morgan ofthe JNCC International Policy threat categories, readers are referred to Branch is thanked for providing expert advice and Groombridge, (1993); for background ou the guidance throughout. workings ofCITES, recommended works are Favre (1989) and Wijnstekers (1992). For information by country on the diversity and stams offish, invertebrates and other taxonomic groups, Timothy Johnson and for a general review ofbiodiversity, readers Head, Species Unit are referred to WCMC (1992) and WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1994). 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge In apublication ofthis nature, it is inevitable that CB3 ODL users will discover entries that need correaing or United Kingdom updating. The publishers would be grateful if Tel: +44 1223 277314 their attention could be drawn to these entries, Fax: +44 1223 277136 and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre email: [email protected] would be grateful to receive details ofsuch changes so that they can be incorporated in the database from which this publication is produced. Explanatory notes Scientific names recent works. Although some workers have split the Antipatharia into a numberoffamilies, The taxonomic scope and sequence oforders Opresko considered that there were only rwo follows the system adopted in the Appendices to families, the Antipathidae and the CITES. For each taxon, the scientific name is Dendrobrachiidae. Opresko and Bayer (1991) given first (as listed in the CITES Appendices), subsequently reclassified the Dendrobrachiidae with the most frequently used current synonyms in placing this monotypic family in the Gorgonacea. brackets. No standard nomenclature has been There are no known records oftrade for this adopted by CITES for fish or invertebrates, with family and it is not included in this checklist. the exception ofthe birdwing butterflies, for which D'Abrera (1975) is followed. Hard corals Lists for genera and species ofhermatypic reef Fish corals occurring in the Indo-Pacific have been compiled by reference to recent publications by Where the CITES nomenclature differs from that Veron (1985, 1986, 1990a,b,c, 1993) and Veron used in Nelson (1984) and Parenti (1981), the et al. (1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984. 1988, synonymy used by these works has been noted. 1989). These studies cover the central Indo-Pacific area and details ofadditional species occurring Non-coral invertebrates outside this areahave been obtained, for example, from publications by Cairns and Keller (1993) The systematics ofinvertebrates has been the (South-west Indian Ocean), Sheppard and subject ofnumerous studies, and the nomenclature Sheppard (1991) (Red Sea and Arabian Gulf), and ofthe CITES listings may differ from the latest Wells (1972, 1982, 1983) (Central and Eastern scientific reviews. In particular, there have been Pacific). Lists for generaand species ofWestern extensive revisions ofthe papilionid tribe Troidini Atlantic reefcorals have been compiled by and the pearly mussels ofthe family Unionidae. reference to a number ofkey publications, for Miller (1987) revised the taxonomy ofthe example by Cairns (1982a), Laborel (1970) and Troidini, uniting all birdwing butterflies in the Wells and Lang (1973). Both reefand non-reef single genus Troides with two subgenera: Troides corals ofthe USA are listed in a booklet produced (including Troides, Ripponia and Omithoptera) and by the American Fisheries Society (1991). The Trogonoptera. Similarly, the Unionidae taxonomy family Fungiidae was revised by Hoeksema was partly revised by Johnson (1978), reducing (1989). The taxonomy ofdeep water (ahermatypic) many ofthe Epioblasma species to synonymy and and temperate water scleractinian and stylasterid reinstating the generic name Plagiola. Other corals has been investigated in recent years species in the same family were reviewed by principally by Cairns (1979, 1982b, 1983a,b,c, Johnson (1980). To help address the problems 1984, 1985, 1986a,b, 1987a,b, 1988, 1989, 1990, caused by the complexity ofthe taxonomy ofthe 1991a-e, 1994), Zibrowius (1973, 1974a.b, 1980) North American molluscs, Turgeon et al. (1988) and Zibrowius et al. (1977, 1990, 1992) and these produced a standard list ofcommon and scientific references have been used extensively in the names for all the fresh water molluscs ofthe preparation ofthe checklist. United States and Canada. Wherever possible, the names used in this and the other taxonomic Reefgenera distribution records have been revisions discussed above are cross-referenced in provided as far as possible by country and the index. references are given to relevant publications. Countries cited without reference numbers fall Black corals within the distribution range shown in general reviews e.g. Veron (1986) and Wood (1983). The latest major taxonomic revision ofthe However, this assumption will not invariably be Antipatharia was made by Opresko (1974), and true and, in a few instances, the genus may not forms the basis ofthis list, updated with more occur. For example, Brunei falls within the range for many genera and so is listed, but reefs in this inthe 1994lUCNRedUst ofThreatenedAnimals, country are poorly developed, so the listings may which also provides explanation ofthe categories: be incorrect. Conversely, some countries (e.g. Ex Extinct Pakistan) are not listed, but may have coral E Endangered communities. Exclusively deep water and V Vuhierable deep/shallow water genera distribution (e.g. R Rare caryophylliids, dendrophyllids and stylasterids) are Id Indeterminate (given as "I" in lUCN Red listed by general geographic area and the lists of List, but modified here to avoid confusion countries are often substantially incomplete. Many with the CITES "I" entry) occur offthe edge ofthe continental shelf. K Insufficiently known CT Commercially threatened Commonnames not listed: note this includes species which have not yet been evaluated for threatened The most widely used English common names status as well as those which have been (and where available French and Spanish) appear evaluated and found not to be threatened. on the line immediately following the scientific name and synonyms, below which the References geographical range is indicated. The common The numbers in the right-hand column refer to names used have been taken from anumber of entries in the reference list at the end ofeach standard reference works for fish and invertebrates section ofthe document. Many ofthese are ofparticular regions. Secondary common names general works relevant to more than one coimtry have been included wherever this was considered or concerned with particular groups ofspecies. useful, including non-English names commonly Single country faunas and more specific references used by English speakers. have generally been inserted in brackets after the appropriate country in the listings for geographical Other information range. The three columns headed - CITES, RL and Ref, G^graphical Range list the following information for each taxon. The geographical range ofeach taxon is given in terms ofpolitical units arranged alphabetically. CITES Small island dependencies, are also listed alphabetically. Where appropriate, islands within 1. or II in this column refers to the appendix on groups are listed after acolon, e.g. Indonesia: which the taxon is listed under the Convention on Java. The same principle is applied whenever the International Trade in Endangered Species ofWild distribution ofa taxon is given in terms ofunits Fauna and Flora. The letters (eq) after an smaller than the country concerned. Appendix II entry denote that the population is on Place-names and names ofcountries follow the Appendix II subject to an export quota. TimesAtlas (1990) and United Nations (1993). RL It should be noted that, when acountry is listed as being a range state ofa species, the species may The status ofthe listed species is taken from the not occur throughout the country, and may even 1994 lUCNRedList ofThreatenedAnimals. The occur in only one or a few localities within the Red List is a summary ofinformation on all taxa country. known to be at risk. Additional information can be found in the lUCNRedData Book Vol. 4: Published records ofdistribution have been used. Pisces (Miller, 1977), the lUCNInvertebrate Red Many taxonomic works give the range ofa taxon Data Book (Wells et al., 1983), Threatened in terms ofbroad geographical areas, rather than Swallowtail Butterflies ofthe World(Collins and ofpolitical units. Individual coimtries may have a Morris, 1985), together with unpublished data relatively well-known and well-reported fish or sheets for North American fish taxadated 1983° invertebrate fauna, but others do not, and 1984 and 1985 held at the Worid Conservation inevitably it has not been possible to access all Monitoring Centre. reference works. These factors may occasionally have resulted in some ofthe geographical ranges Red List (RL) threat categories follow those given givenhere being incomplete or inaccurate, although every effort has been made to prevent this. Distribution notes A question mark '?' in front ofacountry indicates some uncertainty over the occurrence ofthe species in that country. A country where the s]>ecies is known to be extinct is denoted by '(ex)'; acountry where there is still a possibility that the species survives (for instance because recent searches have been unsuccessful) is denoted as '(ex?)'. Range states where the species is introduced are denoted by '[ ]'.