Jonathan Hakim‡, Scott J. Trageser‡, Animesh Ghose‡, Sheikh Muhammad Abdur Rashid§, Shahriar Caesar Rahman‡Corresponding author: Jonathan Hakim ( jgdhakim@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Jesse Grismer © Jonathan Hakim, Scott J. Trageser, Animesh Ghose, Sheikh Muhammad Abdur Rashid, Shahriar Caesar Rahman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Hakim J, Trageser SJ, Ghose A, Das K, Rashid SMA, Rahman SC (2020) Amphibians and reptiles from Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh. Check List 16(5): 1239-1268. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.5.1239 |  |
An annotated inventory of the herpetofauna of Lawachara National Park in Bangladesh is presented, based primarily on original field observations recorded during a six-year survey of the park. A total of 71 species are reported, including 19 Anura, one Apoda, two Chelonii, and 49 Squamata. The course of the survey revealed 16 range extensions including 11 new country records for Bangladesh. Eight of the 16 range extensions including six of the 11 country records are reported here for the first time. Deleted from previous Lawachara National Park checklists are 23 species that had been erroneously reported due to misidentification, a species split, or the subsumption of the species within another taxa.