Taxa-specific Information (surveys and general information)

REPTILES

Anon. 1978. Recently extinct reptile faunas from the southwest Indian Ocean. British Museum Report 1978-1980. 1981: 52-56.

Arnold, E. N. 1980. Recently extinct reptile populations from Mauritius and Reunion, Indian Ocean. Journal of Zoology 191(1): 33-47.

Bertonatti, C. 1994. Lista Propuesta de Anfipbios y Reptiles Amenazados de Extincion. Cuadernos de Herpetologia. 8(1): 164-171.

Brewer, D. J. 1985. Herpetofaunas in the Late Pleistocene: extinctions and extralimital forms. In Mead, J.I. and Meltzer, D.J. (eds). Environments and Extinctions: Man in Late Glacial North America, pp. 3-52. Center for the Study of Early Man. Orono, Maine.

Case, T. J., D. T. Bolger, et al. 1992. Reptilian extinctions: the last ten thousand years. In Fiedler, P.L.and Jain, S.K. (eds). Conservation Biology: The Theory and Practice of Nature Conservation, Preservation and Management, pp. 91-125. Chapman and Hall, New York and London.

Honegger, R. E. 1981. List of amphibians and reptiles either known or thought to have become extinct since 1600. Biological Conservation. 19(2): 141-158.

Moodie, K. B. and T. R. van Devender. 1979. Extinction and extirpation in the herpetofauna of the southern High Plains with emphasis on Geochelone wilsoni (Testudinidae). Herpetologica 35(3): 198-206.

Owadally, A. W. and M. Lambert. 1988. Herpetology in Mauritius. A history of extinction, future hope for conservation. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 23: 11-20.

Pregill, G. K. 1989. Prehistoric extinction of giant iguanas in Tonga. Copeia 2: 505-508.

Richman, A. D., T. J. Case, et al. 1988. Natural and unnatural extinction rates of reptiles on islands. American Naturalist 131(5): 611-630.

Towns, D. R. and C. H. Daugherty. 1994. Patterns of range contractions and extinctions in New Zealand herpetofauna following human colonisation. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 21(4): 325-339.

Viader Staub, M. 1998. The extinction of reptiles and amphibians. Reptilia 1: 66-70.