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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Series 4, Volume 65, Supplement II 
Acknowledgments 
The present work would not have been possible without the help and support of many people 
and institutions. We apologize in advance if we have inadvertently omitted anyone from the list that 
follows. 
From North American institutions, we particularly thank to the curators, collection managers 
and researchers of all institutions visited or consulted, namely Ned Gilmore (ANSP), Darrel Frost, 
Frank Burbrink, David Kirziran and Arianna Kuhn (AMNH), Jens Vindum, Lauren Scheinberg, 
Alan E. Leviton and Robert C. Drewes (CAS), James Hanken, Jonathan Losos , Jose Rosado, Joe 
Martinez, and Linda Ford (MCZ), Carol Spencer, Michelle Koo and Jimmy McGuire (MVZ), Alan 
Resetar (FMNH), Steve Rogers (CM), and Bob Reynolds, Addison Wynn, Rayna Bell and Roy 
McDiarmid (USNM). 
Important contributions were made by friends and colleagues in Portuguese institutions. As the 
present Atlas was originally presented as a M.Sc. thesis in the Conservation Biology M.Sc. 
program from Universidade de Evora, Evora, by the first author, we want to thank the professors 
in that program, and particularly Joao Rabaga and Paulo Sa-Sousa for their support and comments 
during the initial stages of this Atlas. From the Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciencia, 
we thank the staff and all of our colleagues, in particular Cristiane Bastos-Silveira, Isabela Queiroz, 
Alexandra Cartaxana, Alexandra Margal, Maria Judite Alves and Luis Filipe Lopes for their 
constant support for this project. From the Museu de Historia Natural da Universidade do Porto, 
we thank the director of the institution, Nuno Ferrand de Almeida, for providing access to the col¬ 
lection under his responsibility, and we particularly thank our friend Luzia Sousa, former curator 
of the zoological section, for her outstanding knowledge and dedication to the preservation of such 
an admirable collection. From the former Institute de Investiga^ao Cientifica Tropical, we thank 
Luis Mendes and Bivar de Sousa for their support and valuable discussions and suggestions 
during our data collection and research on both the herpetological collection and archive of the 
institution. From the Museu da Ciencia of Universidade de Coimbra, we thank the director, 
Carlota Simoes, and the manager of the zoological collections. Ana Rufmo, for their support 
during our visit to their museum. Other private individuals, especially Joao Crawford-Cabral and 
David Luna de Carvalho provided important data and information on topics related to the bio¬ 
geography and history of science of Angola. 
Several colleagues and friends from German institutions provided both specimen access and 
data regarding their collections and research in Angola and Africa, these include Gunther Kohler 
and Linda Acker (SMF), Uwe Fritz, Raffael Ernst and Markus Auer (SMF), Jakob Hallerman 
(ZMH), Michael Franzen and Frank Glaw (ZSM), Frank Tillack, Rainer Gunther and Mark- 
Oliver Rodel (ZMB), Wolfgang Bohme (ZFMK), Fritz Geller-Grimm (MWNH) and Philipp Wag¬ 
ner (now of the Allwetterzoo, Munster). From France, we thank Alain Dubois, Annemarie Ohler, 
Roger Bour and Marc Cugnet (MNHN) for their continued support, shared ideas and access to their 
rich collections. From Switzerland, we thank Andreas Schmitz (MHNG) as well as Amaud Maed- 
er (MHNC) for providing access to the collections under their care, and Urs Wiiest (NMBA) for 
collection data. From the United Kingdom, Patrick Campbell and Jeff Streicher (BMNH) respond¬ 
ed promptly and courteously to numerous requests for information and hosted our visits to London. 
From Belgium, we thank Danny Meirte (MRAC) and Georges Lenglet (IRSNB). From Austria we 
thank Heinz Grillitsch and Silke Schweiger (NHMW), from The Netherlands, Pirn Amtzen and 
Esther Dondorp (RMNH). In Sweden, we thank Goren Nilson (GNM), Sven Kullander (NRM) and 
Ericas Mejlon (UUMZ), and in Italy, Stefano Scab (MSNM), Franco Andreone (MZUT) and the 
staff of MZUB for data on specimens in their care. 
