Amphibians and reptiles from Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh

By

Hakim, Jonathan
Trageser, Scott J
Ghose, Animesh
Rashid, Sheikh Muhammad Abdur
Rahman, Shahriar Caesar

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-9-23

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

16

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1239--1268

Subjects

Caecilians , Frogs , habitat degradation , Lizards , Snakes , species richness , Turtles

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1239

 

Abstract

An annotated inventory of the herpetofauna of Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh is presented, based primarily on original field observations recorded during a six-year survey of the park. A total of 71 species are reported, including 19 Anura, one Apoda, two Chelonii, and 49 Squamata. The course of the survey revealed 16 range extensions including 11 new country records for Bangladesh. Eight of the 16 range extensions including six of the 11 country records are reported here for the first time. Deleted from previous Lawachara National Park checklists are 23 species that had been erroneously reported due to misidentification, a species split, or the subsumption of the species within another taxa.