Code of Federal Regulations Title 50. Wildlife and Fisheries § 50.23.24 What code is used to show the source of the specimen?

(a) Artificially propagated plant (see § 23.40):

A

(1) An Appendix-II or -III artificially propagated specimen.

(2) An Appendix-I plant specimen artificially propagated for noncommercial purposes or certain Appendix-I hybrids (see § 23.42) propagated for commercial purposes.

(b) Bred-in-captivity wildlife (see § 23.41):

C

(1) An Appendix-II or -III specimen bred in captivity. (See paragraph (d)(1) of this section for wildlife that does not qualify as bred in captivity.)

(2) An Appendix-I specimen bred for noncommercial purposes. (See paragraph (c)(1) of this section for an Appendix-I specimen bred for commercial purposes.)

(c) Bred in captivity or artificially propagated for commercial purposes (see §§ 23.46 and 23.47):

D

(1) An Appendix-I wildlife specimen bred in captivity for commercial purposes at an operation registered with the Secretariat.

(2) An Appendix-I plant specimen artificially propagated for commercial purposes at a nursery that is registered with the Secretariat or a commercial propagating operation that meets the requirements of § 23.47.

(d) Captive-bred wildlife (§ 23.36):

F

(1) An Appendix-II or -III wildlife species that is captive-bred.

(2) An Appendix-I wildlife species that is one of the following:

(i) Captive-bred (see § 23.5).

(ii) Bred for commercial purposes, but the commercial breeding operation is not registered with the Secretariat.

(e) Confiscated or seized specimen (see § 23.78).

I

(f) Pre-Convention specimen (see § 23.45) (code may be used in conjunction with another code).

O

(g) Ranched wildlife (see § 23.5).

R

(h) Source unknown (must be justified on the face of the CITES document).

U

(i) Specimen taken from the wild:

W

(1) For wildlife, this includes a specimen born in captivity from an egg collected from the wild or from wildlife that mated or exchanged genetic material in the wild.

(2) For a plant, it includes a specimen propagated from a propagule collected from a wild plant, except as provided in § 23.64.