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Annex AIT

CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA

SEVENTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES

Lausanne (Switzerland), 9. 20 October 1989

AMENDMENT TO APPENDIX I OF THE CONVENTION

US.

A. PROPOSAL

Transfer of Loxodonta

Appendix II to Appendix I of the Convention.

B.

PROPONENT

africana from

Somali Democratic Republic

C.

SUPPORTING STATEMENT

1

Taxonomy

11.

Class

Mammalia

Order: Proboscidea

12. Order

13. Family: Elephantidaa

14.

Species: Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach, 1797)

includes subspecies L.a.africana the savanna elephant, and L.a.cyclotis the forest elephant. The pygmy elephant

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(L.a. pumilio) is generally not accepted as a valid subspecies.

15. Common names:

French

English

African elaphant

Elephant d'Afrique

Spanish Elefante africano

Kiswahili - Tembo, Ndovu

German

Afrikanischer Elefant

Afrikaans Olifant

16. Code numbers: ISIS $301415001002001001

WILDUFE

DEPART

MANGE A

NATIONAL