First report on the herpetofauna of Ataúro Island, Timor Leste

First report on the herpetofauna of Ataúro Island, Timor Leste

We describe for the first time the terrestrial herpetofauna of Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste, a small mountainous island in the Inner Banda Arc of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago. The island supports a fauna of ten lizard species in three families (Gekkonidae, n = 5; Scincidae, n = 4; Varanidae, n = 1) an...

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Main Authors: Hinrich Kaiser, Caitlin Sanchez, Scott Heacox, Andrew Kathriner, Agivedo Ribeiro, Zito Soares, Luis Araujo, Sven Mecke, Mark O’Shea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2013-08-01
Series:Check List
Online Access:https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/18718/download/pdf/

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