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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Field
work and manuscript preparation were supported by research grants (UNIMAS 120/98
[9] and 192/99 [4]) administered by the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. I thank
Prof. Ghazally Ismail, Deputy Vice Chancellor, UNIMAS, for support and facilites
and colleagues at UNIMAS (Fatimah Abang, Stuart Davies, Stephen Oakeley,
Nicholas Pilcher and Ramlah Zainuddin) and at UBD (Joseph K. Charles, David
Edwards, David Jones, Helen Pang and Samhan bin Nyawa) for various favours. Curatorial
staff of the following institutions (institutional abbreviations follow Leviton
et al., 1985, and are marked with asterisk; see Appendix I) provided facilities,
data on specimens and/or loans of specimens: American Museum of Natural History,
AMNH*, New York (Linda Ford, Darrel R. Frost, David Dickey and Margarete
Arnold); the Australian Museum, AMS, Sydney (Allen E. Greer and Ross A. Sadlier);
The Academy of Natural Sciences, ANSP, Philadelphia (Ned Gilmore); Brunei
Museum, BM, Bandar Seri Begawan (Haji Jaya, Marina Wong and Haji Bakariah);
Natural History Museum, BMNH*, London (E. Nicholas Arnold and Colin J.
McCarthy); California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CAS* (Jens Vindum);
Field Museum of Natural History, FMNH*, Chicago (Harold Knight Voris, Robert
Frederick Inger, Alan Resetar and Cassandra Redhed); Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ*, Cambridge, MA (John E. Cadle, Ernest Edward
Williams and José P. Rosado); Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, MTKD
(Uwe Fritz); Swedish Museum of Natural History, NRM* (Erik Åhlander and Sven
Kullander), Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, RMNH*, Leiden (Marinus Hoogmoed);
Sarawak Museum, SM*, Kuching (Peter Kedit and Chales Leh), Sabah Parks
Zoological Museum, SP, Mount Kinabalu National Park Headquarters (Jamili Nais
and Maklarim Lakim); Sabah State
Museum, SSM, Kota Kinabalu (Anna Wong), Borneensis Collection, Universiti
Malaysia Sabah, UMS (which also includes the collection of the erstwhile
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Sabah Campus, UKMS), Kota Kinabalu (Maryati
Mohammed, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Ahmed Sudin and Lucy Kimsui); Universiti Brunei
Darussalam UBD, Bandar Seri Begawan (Joseph K. Charles, David Edwards and Helen
Pang); Florida Museum of Natural History, UF, Gainesville (Frederick Wayne King
and David Auth); Raffles Museum for Biodiversity Research, University of
Singapore, Department of Zoology, ZRC (USDZ*), Singapore (Peter Ng, C. M. Yang,
Kelvin K. P. Lim and Tan Heok Hui); the United States National Museum, USNM*,
Washington, D.C. (W. Ronald Heyer, Ronald I. Crombie and George R. Zug);
Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMA*), Amsterdam (Leobertus van Tuijl);
Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, ZMH (Jakob
Hallermann); and Zoological Survey of India, ZSI, Calcutta (J. R. B. Alfred,
Shyamal Kumar Chanda, Basudeb Dattagupta and Nimai Charan Gayen).
For
providing literature and information to queries, I thank Kraig Ad.ler,
Christopher C. Austin, Aaron Bauer, Chew Lun Chan, Patrick David, Itzchak Gilboa,
Allen Greer, Wolfgang Grossmann, Jakob Hallermann, Tsutomu Hikida, Marinus
Hoogmoed, Robert F. Inger, Werner Kästle, Tan Fui Lian, Colin McCarthy, Ulrich
Manthey, Hidetoshi Ota, Alan Resetar, Robert Sprackland, Peter Uetz, Harold K.
Voris and Van Wallach. Finally, I express my gratitude to Aaron M. Bauer and Bob
Inger for reading a draft of the manuscript, offering numerous comments and
suggestions. All errors that remain are mine.
I
thank Norzian bte Mohammed for scanning in the images of lizards.
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