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Indraneil Das and Ghazally Ismail
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation,
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Email: idas@ibec.unimas.my
This
presentation covers all crocodiles and turtles known from the island of
the island of Borneo. For each species is the current valid scientific
name, the English name, maximum size recorded, synonymy, besides notes on
identification, natural history and distribution.
Field
work was supported by research grants (UNIMAS 120/98 [9] and 192/99 [4])
administered by the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. We thank Fatimah Abang,
Acting Director, Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation,
for support and facilities and current and former colleagues at UNIMAS
(Stuart James Davies, Stephen Oakley and Nicolas Pilcher) and at UBD
(Joseph Kirbahkaran Charles, David Sydney Edwards, David Thomas Jones,
Helen Pang Yoke Kiew and Samhan bin Nyawa) for various favours. Finally,
we acknowledge Norzian binti Mohammed for scanning in the images depicted
here.
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