tailieunhanh - Herpetodiversity of the Con Dao archipelago and a provisional list of amphibians and reptiles of Con Dao national park (Ba Ri - Vung Tau province, Vietnam)

One can assume that herpetodiversity of Con Dao is also underestimated and an update of amphibian and reptile species list is required. Herein, we provide a review of Con Dao amphibians and reptiles based on available literature sources and our recent findings and additions to the herpetofauna of the Con Dao Archipelago. | HỘI NGHỊ KHOA HỌC TOÀN QUỐC VỀ SINH THÁI VÀ TÀI NGUYÊN SINH VẬT LẦN THỨ 4 HERPETODIVERSITY OF THE CON DAO ARCHIPELAGO AND A PROVISIONAL LIST OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF CON DAO NATIONAL PARK (BA RIA - VUNG TAU PROVINCE, VIETNAM) . POYARKOV, . VASSILLIEVA Lomonosov Moscow State University The Con Dao Archipelago includes 16 mountainous islands and islets belonging to Ba Ria Vung Tau province and is one of the southernmost territories of Vietnam. These offshore islands are of continental origin and belong to Sunda shelf (Gupta, 2005). However due to sea level oscillations in Pleistocene this territory was many times reconnected and isolated from the Indochinese mainland; the present shallow strait separating the archipelago from the continent was established around 20 thousand years ago (Voris, 2000). These factors might lead to repeated colonization and consequent isolation events which formed the present herpetofauna diversity of Con Dao, including formation of endemic reptile taxa (see Darevsky et al., 1991). The Con Dao National Park was established on March 1, 1984; it covers the major part of the archipelago and adjacent waters (total area ha; 81% of the total terrestrial area is extensively forested) and is one of the oldest national parks in Vietnam. The Con Dao Archipelago contains a number of nesting beaches for two globally threatened marine turtles – Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) (Nguyen, 1998; 2003; Nguyen, 1999). All these facts make the Con Dao National Park a unique nature conservation area for Vietnam. Previous studies of Con Dao herpetofauna were carried out by both Vietnamese scientists (Do, 1997; Nguyen et al., 2004; see review in Nguyen et al., 2009) and their overseas colleagues (Darevsky, 1990; 1999; Darevsky et al., 1991; Orlov & Ananjeva, 2007; Smith, 1920; Campden-Main, 1970; Honda et al., 2001). However the major part of these studies contained brief preliminary reviews of Con .

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