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Yemen Monitor

scales53 Jul 28, 2006 10:49 PM

I ordered a Sav Monitor and what I got was totally different. After much research I believe it is a Yemen Monitor. This is listed in Appendix II of CITES. Is this legal? What regs apply? Any info would be helpful.

Mike
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HaroldD Jul 29, 2006 10:25 AM

You should be able to trace your monitor back to the exporter. If it came from the usual sources in Togo/Benin (West Africa), I assure you that it is not V. yemenensis. Probably just an unusually patterened/colored exanthematicus. A yemenensis would have cost you at least 10x what a a sav cost.

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