2023
DOI: 10.1111/aen.12662
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Untangling the web: dynamics of Australia's online terrestrial invertebrate trade

Abstract: The trade and keeping of exotic pets has serious implications for both biosecurity and biodiversity conservation. In Australia, the online trade of live invertebrates is an understudied and unregulated issue, with almost non‐existent monitoring. It is uncertain what species are being traded, whether they are being identified correctly, and how they are being sourced (i.e., captive bred or wild harvested, native, or alien). Consequently, potential invasion risks and conservation concerns remain unknown. Here, w… Show more

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“…Despite the fossorial ecology of most Urodacus species, the group is well known to naturalists and very popular in the pet trade, where three species in the genus featured in the top 10 most popular invertebrate species in online pet stores (Lassaline et al . 2023).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Despite the fossorial ecology of most Urodacus species, the group is well known to naturalists and very popular in the pet trade, where three species in the genus featured in the top 10 most popular invertebrate species in online pet stores (Lassaline et al . 2023).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite the fossorial ecology of most Urodacus species, the group is well known to naturalists and very popular in the pet trade, where three species in the genus featured in the top 10 most popular invertebrate species in online pet stores (Lassaline et al 2023). The potential conservation impacts of the pet trade via the harvest of live animals is concerning, especially when one of the most traded species, U. yaschenkoi, has recently been found to represent a species complex (Luna-Ramirez et al 2017b).…”
Section: Australian Journal Of Zoology 71 (2023) Zo23018mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Specimens were collected in March 2016 and November 2019 from Nothofagus forest in Barrington Tops National Park (NSW, Australia), which although unusually dry, was not affected by Australia's ‘Black Summer’ fires of 2019–2020 (Abram et al 2021). Due to conservation concerns and the potential for illegal wildlife trade impacting the populations, we refrain from providing precise locality data (Lassaline et al 2023; Marshall et al 2022).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Wildlife trade is a prominent driver of extinction (Scheffers et al 2019;Hinsley et al 2023) that affects species from across the tree of life (Fukushima et al 2020), including terrestrial (Morton et al 2021) and aquatic vertebrates (Ripple et al 2019), invertebrates (Purcell et al 2014;Lassaline et al 2023), plants (Margulies et al 2019), and fungi (Sills et al 2021). The scale of wildlife trade is increasing in the face of ongoing globalisation, with vertebrate trade involving over a quarter of all terrestrial species (Scheffers et al 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%