Pantai di Salibabu
English: Title: Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn Identifier: bonnerzoo555620072009zool (find matches) Year: 1950 (1950s) Authors: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig Subjects: Biology; Zoology Publisher: Bonn : Das Forschungsinstitut Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: The geographically isolated position between three bio- geographic subregions in the centre of the Indo-Australian Archipelago render the Talaud Islands an interesting field of research for biogeographers. Until recently, however, the Talaud Archipelago (together with Sangihe) has been one of the least-known areas of the Sulawesi region as de- fined by Vane-Wright (1991). Hence, due to their minor geographic size together with their remote location, the Talaud Island group has been paid only little attention by herpetologists in the past and scientific literature about the herpetofauna of this small archipelago is scarce. Van Kampen (1907; 1923) and de Roou (1915; 1917) provid- ed the first herpetological data about the Talaud Islands based on material collected by M. Weber during the Si- boga Expedition of 1899. De Roou (1915; 1917) listed five different lizards species (Calotes jubatus, Varanus in- dicus, Lygosoma cyanurum, Lygosoma rufescens, and Mabuia multicarinata) and one snake species (Candoia carinata). Later, de Jong (1928) published the results of another small collection by the Dutch botanist H. J. Lam who visited Karakelong and Salibabu as well as Miangas, a small islet south of Mindanao, in 1926 (Lam 1926; 1942). His Talaud collection comprised ten different species representing eight lizards and two snakes. Vouch- er specimens by M. Weber and H. J. Lam from the Ta- laud Islands are mostly deposited in the Zoological Mu- seum of the University of Amsterdam. A few of their spec- imens are stored in the herpetological collection of the Mu- seum Zoologicum Bogoriense (MZB) on Java. Further material (e. g., collected by the Snellius Expedition in 1930) are located in the collections of the Natural Histo- ry Museum Naturalis in Leiden (RMNH), the Netherlands. The herpetology department of the Museum of Compar- ative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, houses a small number of vouchers (MCZ R-^5768-775; MCZ A-24288) from Karakelong Island collected by the first Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Expedition led by the late David Fairchild (1869-1954). This expedition made a short stop-over at the Talaud Islands from 12 to 13 June 1940. The collection merely contains nine specimens re- presenting five lizard species (Bronchocela cristatella, Emoia caeruleocauda, Hemidactylus frenatus, Lipinia noctua, and Eutropis m. multifasciata) as well as one snake (Candoia paulsoni tasmai) and one hylid Irog species (Litoria infrafrenata). To our knowledge, only McDow- ell (1979), Brown (1991) and Smith et al. (2001) re- ferred, in part, to the Fairchild collection. Therefore, these voucher specimens are included in our report. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.