China-Vietnam border trade in asperrimus

[TJ]

I was looking today at a 1998 TRAFFIC Bulletin on "Wildlife Trade in Yunnan Province, China, at the Border with Vietnam" that shows "Echinotriton asperrimus" crossing the border in the following form: "live/liquor/dried"

Also live "Tylototriton spp." and Chinese giant salamanders. I've seen gecko and cobra liquor sold in places like Hanoi before, but never salamander liquor!

http://www.traffic.org/bulletin/archive/bulletin_vol18_no1.pdf