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The Protection of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Russian Far East Nature Conservation Research. Заповедная наука 2016. 1 (3): 26–35 THE PROTECTION OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST Irina V. Maslova Institute of Biology and Soil Science FEB RAS, Russia e-mail: [email protected] Received: 12.10.2016 Data on the distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the Russian Far East in the reserves and national parks of fed- eral importance are presented, as well as the information on the representation of these groups of animals in regional Red Data Books and the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation is provided. Key words: amphibians, reptiles, Russian Far East, protected areas, Red Data Books. The Russian Far East is a part of North-East research is reasonably to conduct in all protected ar- Asia and covers an area between Lake Baikal and eas located in the basin of the Amur River. the Pacific Ocean, including Wrangel Island, Sakha- Since that time, the number of Far Eastern Re- lin Island, Kurile, Commander and the Shantarsky serves has increased from 13 to 29 (including 4 in Islands. Due to its significant meridional extent and Trans-Baikal region), and also 10 National Parks were the nature of the permafrost occurrence there is a created (including 2 in Trans-Baikal region). This ar- huge variety and patchiness of natural areas which is ticle contains information about protected areas only reflected in the species composition of the amphib- of federal importance, as the inventory of the species ian and reptiles living over there. composition of flora and fauna was not conducted in The north-eastern boundary for reptiles (Eastern the vast majority of regional reserves and other smaller Siberian, Dauro-Mongolian and Manchu) (Kurentsov, forms of protected areas. Reserves «Wrangel Island», 1965) passes here; it results in the formation of many Commander, Ust’-Lensky and National Park «Berin- different population groups: of the «island» (small gia» were excluded from the scope of our research, as isolated) type or the tape distribution type. they do not have any amphibians and reptiles. Because of the extreme conditions of existence In recent years, an active rearrangement of the on the boundaries of their ranges, many species in this federal (and not only) protected areas in the direction group of animals are extremely vulnerable to various of fusion and consolidation is performed. The integra- natural and anthropogenic negative influences. tions are at different stages of the legislative process. Protection of amphibians and reptiles is a vast Areas, considerably distant from each other, often fall area that includes the research of impact of various under the merger. So, «Zapovednoe Priamurye», cre- forms of pollution on the herpetofauna, massive ated in the autumn of 2014, has included a number of capture of animals for food, pharmaceutical and Nature Reserves and National Parks along the lower cosmetic purposes, etc. Amur from Khabarovsk (Bolshekhekhtsirsky Nature Here we will focus only on two important as- Reserve) to the mouth of the Amur River («Shantarsky pects in this field: the distribution of amphibians and Islands» National Park). To avoid confusion, we ad- reptiles in the reserves of the Russian Far East and here to the former names of protected areas and show the representation of these groups of animals in the the lists of amphibians and reptiles exactly for them. regional and national Red Data Books. And like Borkin & Krever (1987), we have not Two works devoted to the protection of herpe- included in the lists the marine reptiles, that oc- tofauna of Siberia and the Far East were published casionally enter the Far Eastern seas, namely, sea near 30–35 years ago (Borkin & Korotkov, 1981; turtles – Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) and Borkin & Krever, 1987). Nine species of amphibians Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), and sea snakes – and 18 species of reptiles, excluding marine species Pseudolaticauda semifasciata (Reinwardt in Schle- of reptiles swimming into our waters, were recorded gel, 1837) and Pelamis platura (Linnaeus, 1766). in 13 reserves. Unfortunately, reserves of the Trans- In his work «Biota of Russian waters of the Sea of 1 Baikalsky Krai and Buryatia were not considered Japan», Kharin (2008) pointed to the possibility of in the survey, but we believe that the herpetological penetration of another species of sea turtle and sev- 1 «Territory» according to the Constitution of the Russian en species of sea snakes into the Peter the Great Bay Federation (http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-01.htm) from the southern part of the Sea of Japan. 26 Nature Conservation Research. Заповедная наука 2016. 1 (3): 26–35 Over the past 30 years, a number of changes inaccuracies. There are some species of amphibians in the systematic position of many species of Far and reptiles included in protected areas, where they Eastern amphibians and reptiles have occurred and have never been noted for certain. their distribution borders have been clarified. New Borkin & Krever (1987) wrote: «... In our view, species have been found for region (Adnagulov & the value of these data is not only that they first Maslova, 2004; Ananjeva et al., 2004; Kuzmin & summarize all available modern information ... but, Maslova, 2005; Tiunov et al., 2009; Kharin, 2011; most importantly, demonstrate the level of incom- Dunaev & Orlova, 2012; Poyarkov et al., 2012; Or- pleteness and inadequacy of our knowledge ...»). lov et al., 2014; Stein & Kalinina, 2016). Unfortunately, the quality of the data representation The names of genera and species are given accord- about the Far Eastern herpetofauna is currently still ing to the nomenclature used on the latest published low in most protected areas. lists in Russia (Ananjeva et al., 2004; Dunaev & Orlo- It is noteworthy that almost all types of the Far va, 2012), as well as to the main herpetological Internet Eastern amphibians and reptiles are represented in databases (Frost, 2016; Uetz & Hošek, 2016). Reserves and National Parks. Only one species of Currently, the taxonomic list of the Russian Far amphibians was not found in the Far Eastern protect- East amphibians includes 13 species, 8 genera, 5 ed areas, namely Pelophylax ridibundus, which was families, 2 orders, and that of reptiles includes 24 introduced in the 1990s in Khalaktyrskoye Lake (near species, 16 genera, 5 families, 3 orders. Earlier it Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), heated by wastewaters was believed that there are no endemic amphibians of a local power plant (Kuzmin & Maslova, 2005). and reptiles in the Far East. Now Onychodactylus Nine species (24.3%) are most widely distrib- fischeri (Boulenger, 1886) was proven to be an en- uted on the territory of the Far East – Salamandrella demic species for the southern part of the Russian keyserlingii, Bufo gargarizans, Hyla japonica, Rana Far East, and is found only on the ridge of the Sik- dybowskii, R. amurensis, Zootoca vivipara, Elaphe hote-Alin (Poyarkov et al., 2012). dione, Gloydius intermedius and G. ussuriensis. The current distribution of amphibians and rep- They were recorded in 42.8% – 68.6% of the Far tiles in the Far Eastern reserves and national parks is Eastern protected areas. represented in Table 1 and 2. The presence («+»), the Twelve species (32.4%) are reliably recorded possible presence («?») or absence («–») were given. only in one or two protected areas: Onychodac- A number of objective reasons does not allow to pro- tylus fischeri, Rana pirica, Eremias argus barbo- vide more reliable detailed data. Among them, a large uri, Lacerta agilis exigua, Plestiodon finitimus, percentage of protected areas in the Far East is unsur- Orientocoluber spinalis, Euprepiophis conspicil- veyed for herpetofauna; very few specialists operate latus, Elaphe quadrivirgata, E. climacophora, Ly- in this field; most of the species of these animals have codon rufozonatum, Gloydius blomhoffi blomhof- a hidden way of life. Amphibians and reptiles are fii and Natrix natrix sculata. highly dependent on temperature and other climatic Thus, O. fischeri is a narrow endemic, found factors, so the researchers cannot find most of the rep- only in the southern part of the Sikhote-Alin moun- resentatives of the local herpetofauna during the field tain system. It is recorded only in the Ussuriisky Re- work for a limited period of time, especially in a bad serve and in the Zov Tigra National Park. There are weather period, and therefore they cannot provide re- many publications about its presence in the Lazovsky liable data on the number of individual species. Reserve and Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve (Borkin An inventory of amphibians and reptiles of a & Korotkov, 1981, 1989; Borkin & Krever, 1987; protected area is often conducted by researchers, Laptev et al., 1995), but there were not any finds of non-herpetologists, and there are examples of in- this species till now (pers. comm. V.Kh. Kryukov, clusion on the lists of species that have never lived herpetologist of the Lazovsky Nature Reserve; our in the studied area. They confuse Bufo gargarizans data). It is noteworthy that O. fischeri is observed Cantor, 1842 and Strauchbufo raddei (Strauch, in the headwaters of many streams in the Przew- 1876), Takydromus amurensis Peters, 1881 and alski Mountains (Livadia Ridge, Bolshoy Vorobey Takydromus wolteri Fischer, 1885, Elaphe dione Ridge, Lozovy Ridge) (Emelyanov, 1947; Kuzmin (Pallas, 1773) and Oocatochus rufodorsatus (Can- & Maslova, 2005; our data). On these scenic areas, tor, 1842), etc. Therefore, the data presented, for the active growth of recreational load (ski resorts, example, on the site Information-Analytical System tourist camps, etc.) occurs, as well as the massive, «Protected areas of Russia» (Tomilin, 2016) or in often illegal logging is continuing. It is necessary the overview of the representativeness of the system to create a new protected area, possibly of the na- Federal protected areas in the relation to amphibians tional park of cluster type, with the organization of and reptiles (Blagovidov, 2009), have a number of the protection of O.
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