DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15160350
title: TABLE 1 in Untangling the Wallacean Shortfall: The herpetofauna of central-eastern Afghanistan including two snake species new for the reptiles list of the country

description: TABLE 1. The list of new or remarkable amphibian and reptile records from Kabul, Paktia, and Wardak provinces in Afghanistan observed during random field investigations in 2012, 2020 and 2022.
FamilySpeciesNumber of Age specimensLocalityProvinceDateLatitudeLongitudeElevation (m)CUHC-PA or specimen voucheronline link New province recordBufonidaeBufotes pseudoraddei3-5adultLija MangalPaktia13 May 201233.8135669.655621886148https://flic.kr/p/dCBjmo +BufonidaeBufotes pseudoraddei3-5adultKabulKabul30 May 201234.4543369.107961861149https://flic.kr/p/bQyJ7v -BufonidaeBufotes pseudoraddei3-5adultKabulKabul28 March 201234.4543369.107961861150https://flic.kr/p/bBDYD3 -BufonidaeBufotes pseudoraddei1juvenileQuli KhishWardak10 August 202234.6324268.122643170CUHC 11902-BufonidaeDuttaphrynus stomaticus20+adultChamkaniPaktia15 August 201233.8113769.818321787136https://flic.kr/p/dCBhkj +BufonidaeDuttaphrynus stomaticus20+subadultChamkaniPaktia12 June 201233.8113769.818321787137https://flic.kr/p/dCBhFw +BufonidaeDuttaphrynus stomaticus20+subadultChamkaniPaktia30 April 201233.8113769.818321787138https://flic.kr/p/dCvSqV +DicroglossidaeChrysopaa sternosignata10+adult, subadult Nirkh, Maidan ShahrWardak9 August 202234.3392668.901712093This study (Fig. 4A)- +Dicroglossidae Euphlyctis adolfi10+adultLija MangalPaktia16 April 201233.8113769.818321787156a,bhttps://flic.kr/p/bQyT2M +AgamidaeCalotes farooqi30+juvenileChamkaniPaktia12 August 201233.8113769.818321787139https://flic.kr/p/dE1A6R -AgamidaeCalotes farooqi30+adultChamkaniPaktia18 March 201233.8113769.818321787140https://flic.kr/p/bBDNbY -AgamidaeLaudakia nupta5-10adultChamkaniPaktia21 June 201233.8113769.818321787144https://flic.kr/p/dE1CQF +AgamidaeLaudakia nupta5-10adultChamkaniPaktia26 May 201233.8113769.818321787145https://flic.kr/p/dE6Wzu +GekkonidaeAltiphylax cf. levitoni1adultChamkaniPaktia11 June 201233.8113769.818321787151https://flic.kr/p/dE71D1 +GekkonidaeAltiphylax cf. levitoni1adultJalrezWardak9 August 202234.4959368.646042440This study (Fig. 4C)- +Eublepharidae Eublepharis (macularius) afghanicus 10adultChamkaniPaktia15 September 2012 33.8113769.818321787135a-chttps://flic.kr/p/dE1BoZ +LacertidaeAcanthodactylus cantoris3juvenileChamkaniPaktia5 August 201233.8113769.818321787141https://flic.kr/p/dE73hq +LacertidaeEremias persica complex2adult, juveniles Ate Tangay, Maydan ShahrWardak9 August 202234.3903868.922352158This study (Fig. 4E)- +LacertidaeMesalina watsonana5-10adultLija MangalPaktia27 April 201233.8135669.655621886155https://flic.kr/p/dE1Cix -LacertidaeMesalina watsonana1adultKabulKabul28 March 201234.4543369.107961861158https://flic.kr/p/bBDZZm -LacertidaeMesalina watsonana1juvenileAte Tangay, Maydan ShahrWardak9 August 202234.3903868.922352158CUHC 11898- -LacertidaeMesalina watsonanatensadult, juveniles JalrezWardak9 August 202234.4599768.646042440CUHC 11900-1- -ScincidaeEurylepis taeniolata10+adultChamkaniPaktia18 March 201233.8113769.818321787159a,bhttps://flic.kr/p/bQyqEH +ColubridaeBoiga trigonata1adultChamkaniPaktia27 July 201233.8113769.818321787143a-chttps://flic.kr/p/dE9vEP +ColubridaeLycodon bicolor1adultChamkaniPaktia4 May 201233.8113769.818321787153https://flic.kr/p/dE9tiT +ColubridaeLycodon bicolor1adultChamkaniPaktia8 May 201233.8113769.818321787154https://flic.kr/p/dEeRzy +ColubridaePlatyceps rhodorachis1juvenileKabulKabul30 March 201234.4543369.107961861157https://flic.kr/p/bQyN8F -ColubridaeSpalerosophis arenarius1adultBehsudNangarhar 21 September 2020 34.4525970.48308556This study (Fig. 2B-E)- +ColubridaeSpalerosophis diadema1adultChamkaniPaktia30 May 201233.8113769.818321787152https://flic.kr/p/dE9rEg +ElapidaeNaja oxiana1adultChamkaniPaktia25 May 201233.8113769.818321787147https://flic.kr/p/dEeR8U +ViperidaeEchis carinatus30+adultChamkaniPaktia9 July 201233.8113769.818321787142a,bhttps://flic.kr/p/dEeStS +Testudinidae Testudo horsfieldii8adult, juvenileChamkaniPaktia26 May 201233.8113769.818321787146https://flic.kr/p/dE9AC8 +
CUHC-PA = photographic vouchers (Comenius University Herpetological Collection, Bratislava, Slovakia) archived by the first author.
description: Published as part of Jablonski, Daniel, Basit, Abdul, Randall, Patrick & Masroor, Rafaqat, 2025, Untangling the Wallacean Shortfall: The herpetofauna of central-eastern Afghanistan including two snake species new for the reptiles list of the country, pp. 233 in Zootaxa 5588 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14896473