The Herpetological Literature for Southwestern Asia 
1758 to 2011 
Supplement I 
Alan E. Leviton and Steven C. Anderson 
Preface to Supplement 
This Supplement to The Herpetological Literature for Southwestern Asia: An Indexed Bibliography, which 
appeared on 29 January 2010, consists of updated records that were included in the original publication and more 
than 450 new references, some of which had been missed earlier, others published since January 2010. We have 
also reprinted in this Supplement, a copy of the Preface to the January 2010 edition inasmuch as most of its con¬ 
tents are germane to the Supplement as well. 
The Supplement is arranged in the same format as the original publication: (1) Bibliography; (2) Keyword 
Index; and (3) Journals. However, we have now added (4) an index to all authors, both senior and their co-au¬ 
thors, where applicable, covering all references included in both the original publication and this supplement. 
Reference numbers below [9083] refer to references as they appeared in the January 2010 publication. Refer¬ 
ences numbered [9083] and above are new references that did not appear in the original publication. 
In addition to the author index, we have also added many new references to the geology of the Eastern 
Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, especially for the Neogene, Holocene, and most recent Anthropocene (latest 
Holocene, where there is evidence that the extent of human activities have had a significant global impact on the 
Earth's ecosystems (see P.J. Crutzen and E.F. Stoermer, 2000, IGBP [International Geosphere-Biosphere Pro¬ 
gramme] Newsletter 41]) inasmuch as we believe that it is incumbent for all of us to search for congruencies in 
biogeography between phylogeographic patterns and geologic history of the regions and, if not apparent, to offer 
thoughts on why the discrepencies exist. 
And, once again, we call the attention of our colleagues to the matter of diacritical marks and accents usu¬ 
ally associated with languages other than English and the variables that render standardization of spellings diffi¬ 
cult, if not impossible, to insure. Indeed, we are reminded of the explanation offered in the Preface to the vol¬ 
ume, A Manual of the Geology of India by Henry B. Medlicott and William T. Blanford, published in 1879. For 
those interested, we have provided below (see over, p. viii) a quote of the paragraph they wrote in explanation of 
the difficulties specifically in dealing with Oriental place names and their English transliterations, but this ap¬ 
plies equally to transliterations among Russian, Turkish, Italian, Slavic, Czechoslovakian, and other languages. 
Following publication of this Supplement, it is our intention to add new references to our bibliographic data¬ 
base and to make these available to colleagues on request. Times are changing, and with new computer and web 
technologies, nearly all of our colleagues are able to keep abreast of new developments almost as quickly as they 
occur. 
Once again, we ask our colleagues to keep us informed of publications we have overlooked as well as new 
publications that relate to Southwest Asian herpetology. Also, we thank those who have kept us apprised of cur¬ 
rent contributions. 
Lastly, we are indebted to our colleagues, notably Kraig Adler, Michele Aldrich, and George Zug, for toler¬ 
ating us in our search for items and for taking time to review what we have done. Of course, we have no inten¬ 
tion of evading ultimate responsibility for errors of omission or comission, of which we are confident there are 
many. So, to the users of this work, please do let us know where we have erred. We will make every effort to cor¬ 
rect the errors as well as add missing items. 
Steven C. Anderson 
Department of Biology 
University of the Pacific 
Stockton, California 95211 
Email: asaccus@aol.com 
20 May 2012 
Alan E. Leviton 
California Academy of Sciences 
55 Music Councorse Drive 
San Francisco, California 94118 
Email: aleviton@ calacademy.org 
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