Alexis Vargas, and Wolfgang Wuster. • 



Many biologists has added to our knowledge of the Falcon 

 herpetofauna. We especially note the work of Enrique La Marca, Jesus 

 Manzanilla, Allan L. Markezich, J. Celsa Senaris, Pascual Soriano, Van 

 Wallach, Robert Wingfield, and Wolfgang Wuster; they kindly provided 

 valuable comments and advise, important literature, and access to 

 laboratory space or equipment. 



Many herpetological collection or museum divisions, and their 

 curators (as listed below), kindly share with us their catalogued data 

 on falconian amphibians and reptiles, and/or loaned specimes: Francisco 

 Bisbal and Ramon Rivero (EBRG, Maracay) , Maria J. Praderio and J. Celsa 

 Senaris (MHNLS, Caracas), Pedro Delgado and Luis F. Navarrete (MCNC, 

 Caracas), Pedro Pacheco (MCNG, Guanare) , Haydee Solano (MBUCV, Caracas), 

 Tito Barros and Jose Mosco {MBLUZ, Maracaibo) , Amelia Diaz de 

 Pascual (CVULA, Merida), Enrique La Marca (ULABG, Merida), Greg Schneider 



(UMMZ, Ann Arbor), George Zug and Ronald Crombie (USNM, Washington), 

 Carla Cicero (MVZ, Berkeley); Ellen Censky (CMNH, Pittsburgh); Carol 

 Stewart (UTA, Arlington) ; Jose P. Rosado (MCZ, Cambridge) ; Alan Resetar 



( FMNH, Chicago); Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LACM, Los 

 Angeles); Linda Ford and Darrel Frost (AMNH, New York). 



Finally, the CIEZA chiefs, Lianette Yepez and Luis Lemus, and other CIEZA 

 colleague gave us courteous and regular moral and/or logistic support. 

 Also, the Fundacion para el Avance de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia en el 

 Estado Falcon ( FUNDACITE- FALCON ) , financed partially the project 

 "Relevamiento Herpetologico del Estado Falcon", code Sl-9112-030. We 

 deeply thank all of them for their help and collaboration. 



AMU dedicate this paper to the memory of MARICELA SOSA, a young and 

 promising zoologist, lovely person, and good friend, who died during a 

 field trip to study Venezuelan bats. 



Figure 1 depicts the current political-territorial division, in 

 Municipios, of the state of Falcon. Each Municipio is identified with a 

 number which is the same as appeared in Table 2. 



