{"topic_id":"thin_legality_species_crosswalk_gap_alignment","category":"exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk","context":"---\ntopic_id: thin_legality_species_crosswalk_gap_alignment\ncategory: exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk\ntitle: \"Thin-legality species — per-jurisdiction legality crosswalk gap alignment (6 species × 13 jurisdictions)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Aggregation of 6 existing in-site first-hand per-species legality crosswalk topics (see derived_from). No new primary source cited; every cell traces to a C1-verified crosswalk topic.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk/6species_meta_sources.txt\nsource_type: compiled_cited_topics\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-06\ntokens_estimated: 1500\nverification: {method: derived_from_dataset, claims: 16, passed: 16, date: 2026-08-06}\nsource_document: \"Compiled from first-hand per-species legality crosswalk topics already in _index.json (rabbit/gerbil/iguana/pet-bird/amphibian/sugar-glider)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"US Lacey Act 50 CFR 16 / CITES 50 CFR 23 / ESA / EU Reg 1143/2014 IAS / UK IAS Order 2019 / CA Wild Animal and Plant Protection Act §2118 / FL prohibited-species list / AU Biosecurity Act / JP IAS Act + Wildlife Protection Act / CN Wildlife Protection Law / NL Wet dieren / DE TierSchG\"\n  title: \"Thin-legality species — per-jurisdiction legality crosswalk gap alignment\"\n  url: \"https://petforai.com\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-06\"\n  ref: \"Each matrix cell is lifted verbatim from a source crosswalk topic_id (C1 substring-verified against first-hand statute/regulation text). Honest gaps marked 'honest-pending'.\"\n  doc_type: \"derived aggregation of first-hand crosswalk topics (NOT a new primary source)\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1: compiled from T1 first-hand crosswalk topics\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-06\n---\n\n# Thin-legality species — per-jurisdiction legality crosswalk gap alignment\n\nCross-species legality reference: **6 thin-legality companion species** (🐰 rabbit, 🐹 gerbil, 🦎 iguana, 🐦 pet-bird, 🐸 amphibian, 🐿️ sugar-glider) × **13 jurisdictions** (US-Lacey / US-CITES / US-ESA / EU-IAS / UK-IAS / CA-§2118 / FL-Prohibited / AU-Biosecurity / JP-IAS / JP-Wildlife / CN-Wildlife / NL-Wet-dieren / DE-TierSchG).\n\nBuilt **purely by aligning the 6 existing in-site first-hand per-species crosswalk topics** — no new primary source is cited. Each cell states the landed status and traces to a `src:` crosswalk `topic_id`. Cells shown verbatim from the source crosswalk; rows left as `honest-pending` wherever the underlying per-species / per-jurisdiction enumeration was not landed (never backfilled from second-hand sources).\n\n> Method note: this is a **derived aggregation** (`derived_from_dataset`); the cited crosswalks are themselves C1-verified against first-hand statute/regulation text. The matrix below reproduces each crosswalk's \"Per-jurisdiction status (honest gap map)\" table in one comparison view. Re-verify each cited crosswalk for authoritative wording.\n\n## 13 jurisdictions × 6 species alignment\n\n| Jurisdiction | 🐰 Rabbit | 🐹 Gerbil | 🦎 Iguana | 🐦 Pet-bird | 🐸 Amphibian | 🐿️ Sugar-glider |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| **US-Lacey (50 CFR 16)** | Prohibited (named) `src:rabbit` | Not on injurious list (confirm) `src:gerbil` | Not on injurious list (confirm) `src:iguana` | Prohibited (named) `src:pet-bird` | Prohibited (named) `src:amphibian` | Not on injurious list (confirm) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **US-CITES (50 CFR 23)** | Per-species Appendix (pending) `src:rabbit` | Per-species Appendix (pending) `src:gerbil` | Per-species Appendix (pending) `src:iguana` | Per-species Appendix (pending) `src:pet-bird` | Per-species Appendix (pending) `src:amphibian` | Per-species Appendix (pending) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **US-ESA** | Per-species ESA listing (pending) `src:rabbit` | Per-species ESA listing (pending) `src:gerbil` | Per-species ESA listing (pending) `src:iguana` | Per-species ESA listing (pending) `src:pet-bird` | Per-species ESA listing (pending) `src:amphibian` | Per-species ESA listing (pending) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **EU-IAS (Reg 1143/2014)** | Not on EU list (neg. finding) `src:rabbit` | Not on EU list (neg. finding) `src:gerbil` | Not on EU list (neg. finding) `src:iguana` | Not on EU list (neg. finding) `src:pet-bird` | Not on EU list (neg. finding) `src:amphibian` | Not on EU list (neg. finding) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **UK-IAS (Order 2019)** | Pending (list not landed) `src:rabbit` | Pending (list not landed) `src:gerbil` | Pending (list not landed) `src:iguana` | Pending (list not landed) `src:pet-bird` | Pending (list not landed) `src:amphibian` | Pending (list not landed) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **CA-§2118** | Not named (confirm) `src:rabbit` | Prohibited as pet (named) `src:gerbil` | Not named (confirm) `src:iguana` | Prohibited as pet (named) `src:pet-bird` | Not named (confirm) `src:amphibian` | Prohibited as pet (named) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **FL-Prohibited** | Pending (not on landed list) `src:rabbit` | Pending (not on landed list) `src:gerbil` | Prohibited (named) `src:iguana` | Pending (not on landed list) `src:pet-bird` | Pending (not on landed list) `src:amphibian` | Pending (not on landed list) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **AU-Biosecurity** | Pending (per-species) `src:rabbit` | Pending (per-species) `src:gerbil` | Pending (per-species) `src:iguana` | Pending (per-species) `src:pet-bird` | Pending (per-species) `src:amphibian` | Pending (per-species) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **JP-IAS** | Not designated (neg. finding) `src:rabbit` | Not designated (neg. finding) `src:gerbil` | Not designated (neg. finding) `src:iguana` | Not designated (neg. finding) `src:pet-bird` | Not designated (neg. finding) `src:amphibian` | Not designated (neg. finding) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **JP-Wildlife** | Reg. duty if wild-captured `src:rabbit` | Reg. duty if wild-captured `src:gerbil` | Reg. duty if wild-captured `src:iguana` | Reg. duty if wild-captured `src:pet-bird` | Reg. duty if wild-captured `src:amphibian` | Reg. duty if wild-captured `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **CN-Wildlife** | Pending (三有/protected) `src:rabbit` | Pending (三有/protected) `src:gerbil` | Pending (三有/protected) `src:iguana` | Pending (三有/protected) `src:pet-bird` | Pending (三有/protected) `src:amphibian` | Pending (三有/protected) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **NL-Wet-dieren** | Pending (list not landed) `src:rabbit` | Pending (list not landed) `src:gerbil` | Pending (list not landed) `src:iguana` | Pending (list not landed) `src:pet-bird` | Pending (list not landed) `src:amphibian` | Pending (list not landed) `src:sugar-glider` |\n| **DE-TierSchG** | Pending (per-species) `src:rabbit` | Pending (per-species) `src:gerbil` | Pending (per-species) `src:iguana` | Pending (per-species) `src:pet-bird` | Pending (per-species) `src:amphibian` | Pending (per-species) `src:sugar-glider` |\n\nKey landed differentiators:\n- **US-Lacey (50 CFR 16)** names **rabbit, pet-bird and amphibian** as prohibited; gerbil, iguana and sugar-glider are not on the landed injurious list (to be confirmed per species).\n- **CA-§2118** names **gerbil, pet-bird and sugar-glider** as prohibited-as-pet; rabbit, iguana and amphibian are not in the landed examples (to be confirmed).\n- **FL-Prohibited** names **iguana**; the other five are not on the landed FL list (to be confirmed).\n- **EU-IAS / JP-IAS** are negative findings for all six (none enumerated/designated in the landed lists); **JP-Wildlife** imposes a registration duty only where the individual animal is wild-captured.\n\n## Site-coverage honest-gap map (legality vs husbandry/tox/emergency)\n\nThis matrix shows, for each of the six species, whether the *site* carries first-hand husbandry / toxicology / emergency-care topics (independent of the legality crosswalk above). Gaps are internal coverage gaps, not legal findings.\n\n| Species | Legality crosswalk | Husbandry | Toxicology | Emergency-care |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 🐰 Rabbit | ✅ (`exotic_pet_legality_crosswalk_rabbit`) | ✅ (`exotic_husbandry_rabbit_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_tox_rabbit_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_health_rabbit_emergency`) |\n| 🐹 Gerbil | ✅ (`exotic_pet_legality_crosswalk_gerbil`) | ✅ (`exotic_husbandry_gerbil_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_tox_gerbil_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_health_gerbil_emergency`) |\n| 🦎 Iguana | ✅ (`exotic_pet_legality_crosswalk_iguana`) | ✅ (`exotic_husbandry_iguana`) | ✅ (`exotic_pet_toxicology_iguana`) | ✅ (`exotic_health_iguana_snhip`) |\n| 🐦 Pet-bird (avian) | ✅ (`exotic_pet_legality_crosswalk_pet-bird`) | ✅ (`exotic_husbandry_pet_bird_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_tox_bird_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_bird_*` clinical/health) |\n| 🐸 Amphibian | ✅ (`exotic_pet_legality_crosswalk_amphibian`) | ✅ (`exotic_husbandry_amphibian_*`) | ⚠️ disease-adjacent only (`exotic_tox_amphibian_*`) | ❌ **missing** — no dedicated emergency-care topic |\n| 🐿️ Sugar-glider | ✅ (`exotic_pet_legality_crosswalk_sugar-glider`) | ✅ (`exotic_husbandry_sugar_glider_*`) | ✅ (`exotic_tox_sugar_glider_toxins`) | ❌ **missing** — no dedicated emergency-care topic |\n\n## Honest gaps carried forward (no first-hand source → pending, not fabricated)\n\n- **Chinchilla neutering age — RESOLVED (partial, first-hand)**: re-probe surfaced Pender Veterinary Centre's chinchilla care page (first-hand veterinary practice). Sexual maturity ≈ **8 months (male) / 8½ months (female)**, range **2–14 months**; the source advises spay/neuter case-by-case **with a veterinarian** and gives **no standardized recommended neutering age**. Landed as `exotic_chinchilla_neuter_age` (paraphrase, numbers verbatim). This confirms the prior `exotic_breeding_chinchilla` non-OA review (age not found) — no invented age.\n- **Reptile toxicology deepening — honest-pending**: the on-disk first-hand reptile sources (`pdf-raw/exotic-toxicology/reptile.txt` = Mader's 2019 general medicine; `pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_reptile_toxicology_2026-08-01.txt` = wild-population pollution/invasive-species abstracts) contain **no pet-reptile toxin-agent list**. A toxin-matrix topic is therefore **not supportable first-hand** → marked honest-pending, not fabricated. (Existing `exotic_tox_reptile_mbd` covers metabolic bone disease, not exogenous toxins.)\n- **Amphibian / sugar-glider emergency-care**: no first-hand emergency-care topic landed for either species → marked missing above, not fabricated.\n- **Per-species CITES Appendix / ESA / 三有 / NL / DE enumerations**: all `honest-pending` in the source crosswalks (framework-only), reproduced verbatim above.\n","sources":["exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk — Thin-legality species — per-jurisdiction legality crosswalk gap alignment (retrieved 2026-08-06)"],"source":{"authority":"exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk","title":"Thin-legality species — per-jurisdiction legality crosswalk gap alignment","url":"https://petforai.com","retrieved":"2026-08-06","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Compiled from first-hand per-species legality crosswalk topics already in _index.json (rabbit/gerbil/iguana/pet-bird/amphibian/sugar-glider)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk/6species_meta_sources.txt"},"source_document":"Compiled from first-hand per-species legality crosswalk topics already in _index.json (rabbit/gerbil/iguana/pet-bird/amphibian/sugar-glider)","source_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-pet-legality-crosswalk/6species_meta_sources.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":1500,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}