MARQUES ET AL.: AMPHIBIANS AND TERRESTRIAL REPTILES OF ANGOLA 
4II 
From South Africa, we thank Michael Franeis Bates (NMB), Bill Branch and Werner Conradie 
(PEM), Lauretta Mahlangu, Lemmy Mashinini and Wulf Haacke (TM), Jofred Opperman (SAM), 
and Beryl Wilson (MMK) for information on their colleetions and other relevant data regarding 
Angolan and Southern Afriea herpetofauna. From Zimbabwe, Shiela Broadley and the late Don 
Broadley (NMZB), and from Namibia, Mathilda Awases and Eugene Marais (SMNW). 
From Angola, we would like to thank the Baptista family espeeially to Alvaro, “Varito” and 
young Pedro, for their outstanding and ineredibly organized logistical help during our field surveys 
in Namibe Provinee and tourism operator Candido Cameiro for kindly providing Figure 8. From 
the Faeuldade de Cieneias of Universidade Agostinho Neto, we thank Joao Serodio de Almeida, 
Michel Morais, Soki Kuedikuenda and Filomena Mateus, with whom we have activelky eollabo- 
rated and exehanged ideas regarding Angolan biodiversity. Soki Kuedikuenda was also the former 
direetor of INBAC, with whom the current eollaboration was initiated. From the Universidade 
Metodista de Angola, we thank Luis Sebastian, Diogo Figueiredo and Teresa da Silva Neto, dean 
of the university, for their institutional support at the beginning of this project. From the Museu 
Naeional de Historia Natural, we want to thank both the former and eurrent directors of the insti¬ 
tution, Francisca da Costa and Belmira Seeo de Oliveira Gumbe, respeetively, and all of their staff 
for their enthusiastie and professional support during our visits to their eollections and also during 
various publie lectures held in the institution. From the Museu do Dundo, we thank the director, 
Fonseca Sousa and his staff for opening the doors of their extraordinary eolleetion and allowing us 
to study Raymond Laurent’s type material. Our aeknowledgments extend to the Ministry of 
Culture, speeifieally to her Exeeleney the Minister of Culture, Carolina Cerqueira, and to the 
National Director of the Museums of Angola, Ziva Domingos, for allowing our investigations in 
both aforementioned institutions. From the Gabinete de Aproveitamento do Medio Kwanza 
(GAMEK), we thank Rafael Neto for his support during field surveys in the Lauea Dam area, 
which resulted in the eolleetion of important specimens. Alice Ponciano (Odebrecht), Cristina 
Rebelo (EnvGreen) and the environment team of Lauea Dam (Vicente Jose, Helena Pinto, et al.) 
provided invaluable support and friendship during the aforementioned surveys. The authors also 
wish to thank Daniel “Gastrula” Machado, Almeida Jose, Iracelma Machado, Fidel Viegas, and 
Sara and David Elizalde for their friendship and camaraderie. The Embassy of the United States of 
America in Luanda, and particularly Gustavo Guerrero and Todd Katsche, have provided institu¬ 
tional help whenever needed. 
From the Ministry of Environment, we wish to thank to both the former and current Ministers 
of the Environment, Their Excellencies Maria de Fatima Jardim and Paula Francisco Camuhoto, 
respectively, for their institutional support and permission to conduct research in the country. In 
addition, the former National Director for Biodiversity, now Secretary of State for Biodiversity, 
Joaquim Manuel offered his support since the beginning of the Atlas project. Provincial and com¬ 
munal governors have facilitated our field-work aeross various provinces of the country. The 
current National Director for Biodiversity, Nascimento Antonio, must also to be thanked. We espe¬ 
eially want to aeknowledge the friendship and support of our eolleagues from the Institute 
Naeional da Biodiversidade e Areas de Conservagao (INBAC), namely its eurrent direetor, Aristo- 
fanes Pontes, and viee-direetor, Maria Loa, and their eolleagues Sango de Sa, Suzana Bandeira, 
Hilaria Maehado, Celsia Afrieano, Ivania Castro, Miguel Xavier, Elizeth Gonsalves. The former 
direetor of the Institute, Abias Huongo, during his time leading the institute also provided 
outstanding support for our projeet. The authors also thank to all of the Angolan wildlife rangers 
and park offieers (Miguel Savituma, Antonio “Muloge” Lopes, Roland Goetz, among others) for 
their help and support during our field surveys and for their outstanding work on the preservation 
of the magnifieent biodiversity of Angola. Without INBAC and the dedieation of its staff to the 
study and proteetion of Angolan biodiversity none of our work would have been possible. 
