The trade background and status of K. uluguruensis is complicated by its taxonomic history. K. uluguruensis was only recognized as a full species by CITES in 2010 at CITES CoP15 (CITES 2013b). Prior to this, is was considered a subspecies of K. fischeri, along with K. multituberculata, K. matschiei, K. vosseleri and true K. fischeri. Strictly speaking, K. uluguruensis was first issued an annual CITES export quota in 2013 for 10 captive born individuals from Tanzania (CITES 2013a). Through the first half of 2013, however, K. uluguruensis actually is buried within the trade data of K. fischeri, although few if any specimens have ever been exported for the pet trade (Anderson, personal observation).
Annual CITES export quotas for K. fischeri between 2000 and 2013 have been fixed to 3,000 wild collected individuals and 10-400 (125-400 between 2000 and 2012) captive born individuals per year from Tanzania (CITES 2013a). CITES Trade Data indicates that between 1977 and 2011 (2012 and 2013 trade data is incomplete or unavailable) a total of 78,801 live individuals were exported from Tanzania for the pet trade (total of all undeclared, captive breeding, personal and commercial exports), of which 1,158 were reported as either captive bred or captive born (UNEP-WCMC 2013). All these individuals were exported from 1985 to 2011, with the captive bred or born individuals having been exported from 1999 to 2011, with the exception of a single export of captive bred individuals in 1995 (UNEP-WCMC 2013). An additional 336 individuals were reportedly exported from Kenya from 1980 to 2011 (6 individuals in 1980, 56 individuals in 2001, and 330 farmed or confiscated individuals in 2011) (UNEP-WCMC 2013). With the exception of those exports from Kenya, trade data for K. uluguruensis actually is buried within the trade data of K. fischeri, although few if any specimens have ever been exported for the pet trade (Anderson, personal observation).
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