Amphibians and Reptiles, Luzon Island, Aurora Province and Aurora Memorial National Park, Northern Philippines: New island distribution records
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Rafe M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-25T18:58:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-25T18:58:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Siler, C. D., L. J. Welton, J. M. Siler, J. Brown, A. Bucol, A. C. Diesmos, and R. M. Brown. 2011. Amphibians and Reptiles, Luzon Island, Aurora Province and Aurora Memorial National Park, Northern Philippines: New island distribution records. Check List 7: 182–195. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10747 | |
dc.description.abstract | We report 35 new amphibian and reptile distribution records for two regions within the southern Sierra Madre Mountain Range, Aurora Province, central Luzon Island, Philippines. Together with results of our previous survey work in Aurora, our new data result in a total of 82 amphibian and reptile species for the area. These results highlight the degree to which the island’s biodiversity continues to be underestimated and poorly understood. We report on observations of rarely encountered species including the skink Sphenomorphus leucospilos, the forest gecko Luperosaurus cf. cumingii, and a sensational new species of monitor lizard, Varanus bitatawa. Our recent collections clarify the conservation status of the “critically endangered” Polillo Island forest frog Platymantis polillensis, now known to be widespread, abundant, and common throughout Camarines Norte, Quezon, and Aurora Provinces on the adjacent mainland of Luzon Island. These results add to our growing understanding of many species’ distributions in the region. | |
dc.publisher | Check List | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://www.checklist.org.br/getpdf?SL036-10 | |
dc.rights | Copyright Rafe M. Brown et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | |
dc.title | Amphibians and Reptiles, Luzon Island, Aurora Province and Aurora Memorial National Park, Northern Philippines: New island distribution records | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Brown, Rafe M. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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