In the type description, it is clearly stated that a female specimen that was collected at the same time as the male Holotype, laid eggs before escaping.
No annual CITES export quotas for K. carpenteri have been issued between 2000 and 2013 (CITES 2013) and there is no reported trade in this species between 1977 and 2011 (2012 and 2013 trade data is incomplete or unavailable) (UNEP-WCMC 2013). This species is not known to be present in the captive market, although illegal trade and/or harvest may occur on occasion.
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