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ZOOKEYS
卷 -, 期 624, 页码 1-132出版社
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.624.9814
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Agusan del Norte; Agusan del Sur; Balatukan; Biodiversity; Camiguin Sur; Conservation; Dinagat; Hilong-hilong; Lumot; Magdiwata; Misamis Oriental; Siargao; Surigao del Norte; Surigao del Sur
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Research Office of Fr. Saturnino Urios University
- NSF Biotic Surveys and Inventories grant [DEB 0743491]
We summarize all available amphibian and reptile species distribution data from the northeast Mindanao faunal region, including small islands associated with this subcenter of endemic vertebrate biodiversity. Together with all publicly available historical information from biodiversity repositories, we present new data from several major herpetological surveys, including recently conducted inventories on four major mountains of northeast Mindanao, and adjacent islands of Camiguin Sur, Dinagat, and Siargao. We present species accounts for all taxa, comment on unresolved taxonomic problems, and provide revisions to outdated IUCN conservation status assessments in cases where our new data significantly alter earlier classification status summaries. Together, our comprehensive analysis of this fauna suggests that the greater Mindanao faunal region possesses distinct subcenters of amphibian and reptile species diversity, and that until this area is revisited and its fauna and actually studied, with on-the-ground field work including targeted surveys of species distributions coupled to the study their natural history, our understanding of the diversity and conservation status of southern Philippine herpetological fauna will remain incomplete. Nevertheless, the northeast Mindanao geographical area (Caraga Region) appears to have the highest herpetological species diversity (at least 126 species) of any comparably-sized Philippine faunal subregion.
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