Indonesian authorities have seized a haul of hundreds of critically endangered pangolins and scales worth 190,000 US dollars, a navy official said on Wednesday.

The navy officers reportedly detained two suspects and discovered 223 live pangolins, 24 of them already dead and frozen, as well as nine large bags of pangolin scales. All eight subspecies of the vulnerable creature have been listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The reclusive mammal holds the undesirable title of being the most-poached and illegally trafficked mammal in the world. The Pangolin Specialist Group, backed by the Zoological Society of London, estimated that more than a million pangolins have been stolen from the wild in the last decade.