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ricochet1 here's something to mull over.. How do you explain how there are large numbers of naultinus species in collections all throughout the EU and US when New Zealand has NEVER ALLOWED export of wildlife..? It is legal because naultinus, like lanthanotus, is not CITES or ESA listed (even though their countries of origin do not allow export currently) therefore they are legal to own if specimens are obtained outside of their country of origin. With lanthanotus there actually WAS an export quota for them in the 90s and I personally know of 1.1 that were imported back in the 90s in to the US.. Who are you to say they haven't been successfully reproduced in captive collections in the past 15 years? Just because it's not published does not mean it didnt happen. Some people don't like the public attention.
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