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HAMADRYAD Vol. 27. No. 2. August, 2003 Date of issue: 31 August, 2003 ISSN 0972-205X CONTENTS T. -M. LEONG,L.L.GRISMER &MUMPUNI. Preliminary checklists of the herpetofauna of the Anambas and Natuna Islands (South China Sea) ..................................................165–174 T.-M. LEONG & C-F. LIM. The tadpole of Rana miopus Boulenger, 1918 from Peninsular Malaysia ...............175–178 N. D. RATHNAYAKE,N.D.HERATH,K.K.HEWAMATHES &S.JAYALATH. The thermal behaviour, diurnal activity pattern and body temperature of Varanus salvator in central Sri Lanka .........................179–184 B. TRIPATHY,B.PANDAV &R.C.PANIGRAHY. Hatching success and orientation in Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) at Rushikulya Rookery, Orissa, India ......................................185–192 L. QUYET &T.ZIEGLER. First record of the Chinese crocodile lizard from outside of China: report on a population of Shinisaurus crocodilurus Ahl, 1930 from north-eastern Vietnam ..................193–199 O. S. G. PAUWELS,V.MAMONEKENE,P.DUMONT,W.R.BRANCH,M.BURGER &S.LAVOUÉ. Diet records for Crocodylus cataphractus (Reptilia: Crocodylidae) at Lake Divangui, Ogooué-Maritime Province, south-western Gabon......................................................200–204 A. M. BAUER. On the status of the name Oligodon taeniolatus (Jerdon, 1853) and its long-ignored senior synonym and secondary homonym, Oligodon taeniolatus (Daudin, 1803) ........................205–213 W. P. MCCORD,O.S.G.PAUWELS,R.BOUR,F.CHÉROT,J.IVERSON,P.C.H.PRITCHARD,K.THIRAKHUPT, W. KITIMASAK &T.BUNDHITWONGRUT. Chitra burmanica sensu Jaruthanin, 2002 (Testudines: Trionychidae): an unavailable name ............................................................214–216 V. GIRI,A.M.BAUER &N.CHATURVEDI. Notes on the distribution, natural history and variation of Hemidactylus giganteus Stoliczka, 1871 ................................................217–221 V. WALLACH. Scolecophidia Miscellanea ..................................................222–240 P. D. VENUGOPAL &K.V.DEVI PRASAD. Basking behaviour and survey of marsh crocodiles, Crocodylus palustris (Lesson, 1831) in Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary, Karnataka, India ............................241–247 OVERVIEW S. N. BANERJEE &S.CHAKRABARTI. Chromosomal sex determination in anuran amphibians ...................248–253 NOTES D. BASU,S.SRIVASTAVA &S.P.SINGH. A case of albinism in Kachuga tentoria circumdata (Testudines: Bataguridae).............................................................254 M. DEY &S.N.RAMANUJAM. Record of Pterorana khare Kiyasetuo and Khare, 1986 (Anura: Ranidae) from Aizwal District, Mizoram, north-eastern India .............................................255–256 E. R. EASTON. Ecology of ticks, including a new record of Aponoma (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) from Laticauda colubrina on Loloata Island of Papua New Guinea ..........................................256–259 R. A. ESCOBAR, III,J.L.GRISMER,T.M.YOUMANS,P.L.WOOD,S.D.KENDALL,J.CASTRO,T.MAGI, C. RASMUSSEN,T.R.SZUTZ,S.M.HOVER,D.MORGAN,C.RAYNOR,K.MCCLOSKEY,N.IZVERNARI, A. HUNTER,J.M.BERNARD,N.HINOJOSA,T.DYER,J.ANLAUF,J.MARTINEZ,S.ANDREIKO,R.GREGORY, L. S. YEEN,W.WUERTZ,H.KAISER &L.LEE GRISMER. First report of the herpetofauna of Pulau Tinggi, Johor, West Malaysia ...................................................259–262 J. HALLERMANN &W.BÖHME. A reinterpretation of the agamid genus Mantheyus Ananjeva and Stuart, 2001, as a junior synonym of Ptyctolaemus Peters, 1864, with comments on the problem of monotypic genera ..........262–265 S. W. KYI &G.R.ZUG. Unusual foraging behaviour of Naja kaouthia at the Moyingye Wetlands Bird Sanctuary, Myanmar .........................................................265–266 T. -M. LEONG & B.-L. LIM. Noteworthy prey item records of two snakes (Chrysopelea ornata and Macropisthodon flaviceps) from Peninsular Malaysia ...................................................266–268 T.-M. LEONG. Noteworthy dietary records for Caudacaecilia larutensis and Limnonectes kuhlii from Maxwell’s Hill, Peninsular Malaysia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona and Anura) .....................................268–270 O. S. G. PAUWELS, M.-O. RÖDEL &A.K.TOHAM. Leptopelis notatus (Anura: Hyperoliidae) in the Massif du Chaillu, Gabon: from ethnic wars to soccer .............................................271–273 S. G. PLATT,S.A.MIN,W.KO KO &T.R.RAINWATER. A record of the Arakan forest turtle Heosemys depressa (Anderson, 1875) from the southern Arakan Yoma Hills, Myanmar ................................273–276 K. VASUDEVAN. A report on sexual dimorphism in Rana temporalis (Günther, 1864) ........................276–280 R. VYAS. First record of Ophisops beddomei (Jerdon, 1870) from Gujarat State, western India...................280–281 P. L. WOOD,T.R.SZUTZ,T.M.YOUMANS &J.L.GRISMER. The first report on the herpetofauna of Pulau Sembilang and Pulau Seribuat, Pahang, West Malaysia .......................................281–284 P. L. WOOD,T.M.YOUMANS,C.RAYNOR,J.M.BERNARD,N.HINOJOSA,T.DYER,S.ANDREIKO,P.P.VAN DIJK, W. WUERTZ &L.S.YEEN. First report on the herpetofauna of Pulau Dayang, Pahang, West Malaysia ...........284–285 N. S. YAAKOB. A record of Anomochilus leonardi Smith, 1940 (Anomochilidae) from Peninsular Malaysia ..........285–286 J. PALDEN. New records of Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871 from Bhutan .........................286–287 R. A. ESCOBAR, III, J. CASTRO,D.MORGAN,S.M.HOVER,T.R.SZUTZ, K. McCLOSKEY &R.GREGORY. Additions to the herpetofauna of Pulau Aur, Johor, West Malaysia .................................287–288 BOOK REVIEWS R. WHITAKER. A photographic guide to the snakes and other reptiles of India by Indraneil Das.......................289 R. WHITAKER. True vipers– natural history and toxinology of Old World vipers by David Mallow, David Ludwig and Göran Nilson. .................................................................290 I. DAS. The cane toad. The history and ecology of a successful colonist by Christopher Lever. ...................291–292 Hamadryad Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 165 – 174, 2003. Copyright 2003 Centre for Herpetology, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. PRELIMINARY CHECKLISTS OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE ANAMBAS AND NATUNA ISLANDS (SOUTH CHINA SEA) Tzi Ming Leong1, L. Lee Grismer2 and Mumpuni3 1Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260. Email: [email protected] 2Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4700 Pierce Street, Riverside, CA 92515-8247, USA. Email: [email protected] 3Herpetology Department, Division of Zoology, Research and Development Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Gedung Widyasatwaloka, Jalan Raya Jakarta km. 46, Cibinong, Bogor 11961, Indonesia. Email: [email protected] (with three text figures) ABSTRACT.– From reviews of literature and museum specimens, a comprehensive checklist of the reptilian and amphibian fauna was compiled for the South China Sea island groups of the Anambas and Natunas. As of present, 23 reptiles and seven amphibians have been recorded from the Anambas, while 63 reptiles and 27 amphibians were recorded from the Natunas. The photographs in life of two anurans endemic to the island of Pulau Natuna Besar (Leptobrachella natunae and Kalophrynus bunguranus) are here presented for the first time. KEYWORDS.– Herpetofauna, Anambas, Natunas, Bunguran, South China Sea, island, biogeography. INTRODUCTION 1d), while south Natuna, Tembelan and Tioman The present day offshore islands of the South were still a part of the exposed Sunda Shelf. China Sea are of biogeographic importance be- South Natuna and Tembelan were subsequently cause they serve as ‘stepping stones’ within the isolated when sea levels rose to 30 m BPL, while Sunda Shelf (Whitten et al., 1987). Of particular Tioman was only clearly isolated at 20 m BPL significance are the emergent islands that lie be- (Voris, 2000: Figs. 1f and g). The Anambas Ar- tween the east coast of the Malay Peninsula and chipelago (Fig. 1b; 03°00’ N, 106°00’ E) con- the west coast of Borneo. This chain of islands sists of the two main islands of Pulau Siantan comprises (from west to east) the Seribuat Archi- (03° 10’ N; 106° 15’ E) in the north and Pulau pelago (including Pulau Tioman), the Anambas Jemaja (Letong) (02°55’ N; 105°45’ E) in the Archipelago, the Natuna Archipelago and the south. The Natuna Archipelago (Fig. 1c) consists Tembelan Archipelago. It has been clearly of the larger Pulau Natuna Besar (Bunguran) shown that when sea levels were at 120 m BPL (04° 00’ N; 108° 15’ E) in the north and Pulau (below present-day level) (ca. 17, 000 yrs Serasan (Sirhassen) (02° 30’ N; 109° 03’ E) to BP-before present), all of these island groups the south. were contiguous with the exposed Sunda Shelf As most of these South China Sea islands are (Voris, 2000: Fig. 1a). The north Natuna and endowed with significant forest cover, are topo- south Natuna islands were already separated by graphically heterogeneous, and have experi- the Great Sunda River, which flowed northeast enced varying durations of isolation; they would in between the two island groups (Whitten et al., serve as refugia for a wide variety of Sundaic 1987). About 11, 000 yrs BP (sea levels 50 m flora and fauna, and even become cradles for BPL), the north Natuna and Anambas islands speciation. Zoological results from early collec- were the first to be isolated (Voris, 2000: Fig. tions in the Anambas and Natunas have focused 166 HAMADRYAD [Vol. 27, No. 2, FIGURE 1a-c: Schematic maps of Kepulauan Anambas (b) and Kepulauan Natunas (c) in the South