INTRODUCTION

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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Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,
94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Email: idas@ibec.unimas.my
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