tasmanian members

[basketcase]

do we have any ?

im interested in what herp laws r like down there

 

[Mel]

As far as I'd gather, I doubt there'd be any Tassie members. I'm a Tasmania native myself (yeah, yeah...2 heads and all that), and the laws are very different there.

At last check, you could not import anything into Tassie on a rec licence. Not even as much as a coastal. You can however, collect local native specimens from the wild...although why you would want to do that, I have no idea. I'd be leaving the Tigers and the Copperheads to themselves, thanks very much.

Mel x

 

[Mel]

I just checked, and for Tassie residents, you can apply for a 'Herpetology Permit', which allows you to collect and keep reptiles and amphibians in a manner which complies with the Code of Practice. However, you're only allowed to collect and keep the following specimens:

Reptiles
Bassiana duperreyi -Three-lined skink
Cyclodomorphus casuarinae - She-oak skink
Egernia whitei - Whites skinks
Lampropholis delicata - Delicate skink
Niveoscincus greeni - Northern snow skink
N. metallicus - Metallic skink
N. microlepidotus - Southern snow skink
N. ocellatus - Spotted skink
N. orocryptus - Mountain skink
N. pretiosus - Tasmanian tree skink
Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii - Southern grass skink
Tiliqua nigrolutea - Blotched blue-tongue
Austrelaps superbus - Copperhead snake
Drysdalia coronoides - White-lipped snake
Notechis ater - Tiger snake

Amphibians
Crinia signifera - Common froglet
C. tasmaniensis - Tasmanian Froglet
Geocrinia laevis - Smooth froglet
Limnodynastes dumerilii - Banjo frog
L. tasmaniensis - Spotted marsh frog
Litoria burrowsae - Tasmanian tree frog
L. ewingi - Brown tree frog
Pseudophryne semimarmorata - Southern toadlet

To be honest, I would hope there's more to it than that...imagine a young, inexperienced herper, getting a licence and trotting out to collect some Tiger Snakes :shock:

Mel

 

[africancichlidau]

would then be a young, inexperienced dead herper