NEW COUNTRY RECORDS AND RANGE EXTENSIONS FOR MYANMAR AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES

Abstract

(with one text-figure) ABSTRACT.- Myanmar lies at a biogeographic crossroads where the faunas of China, Indochina, India, Himalaya, and the Malay Peninsula converge. Since 1999, the Myanmar Herpetological Survey, a collaborative effort the California Academy of Sciences, the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and the Forest Department, Ministry of Forestry, Myanmar, has surveyed the amphibians and reptiles throughout the country. Our surveys in Myanmar have added many additions to the country's fauna, and species ranges within Myanmar have been extended. These general biotic surveys represent the only new information for much of Myanmar's herpetofauna for over a half-century. We present 18 new country records and 45 range extensions and state records in this paper.