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By David G. Chapple

This edited quantity is a well timed and finished precis of the recent Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled within the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a big archipelago that screens the faunal signatures of either its Gondwanan origins, and newer oceanic island impacts. New Zealand used to be one of many final nations on the earth to be found, and also, the whole volume of the faunal variety current in the archipelago is just simply becoming preferred. this can be no greater exemplified than in lizards, the place simply 30 species (20 skinks, 10 geckos) have been well-known within the Nineteen Fifties, yet now 104 are officially or informally well-known (61 skinks, forty three geckos). hence, New Zealand includes probably the most diversified lizard faunas of any cool, temperate quarter in the world. This booklet brings jointly the world’s major specialists within the box to supply an authoritative evaluation of the historical past, taxonomy, biogeography, ecology, life-history, body structure and conservation of latest Zealand lizards.

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