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Aspideretes nigricans was long thought to be one of the rarest turtle species of the world, being restricted to a single site in Bangladesh; its specific distinctness was repeatedly doubted. Using mtDNA sequence data of all four Aspideretes species, we provide evidence that A. nigricans is a distinct species that is sister to A. hurum. Furthermore,...
The Sundarbans, in southern coastal Bangladesh, is the world's largest surviving mangrove habitat and the last stronghold of tiger adapted to living in a mangrove ecosystem. Using MaxEnt (maximum entropy mod- eling), current distribution data, land-use/land cover and bioclimatic variables, we modeled the likely future distribution of the globally e...
The Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis is categorized as a globally ‘Vulnerable' or ‘Critically Endangered' species, depending on ranking source. This is mostly because of its rapid population decrease due to widespread degradation and disturbance of its habitat in lowland rivers and wetlands. At present, the last strongholds of the Indian Skimmer...
Located in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, Bangladesh is a tropical country in Southeast Asia and a transitional point for flora and fauna between the Indo-Himalayan and Indo-Chinese subregions. About 11% land area (1,429,000 hectares) of the country is covered with four major forest types: mixed-evergreen forests, deciduous forests, mangrove...
Tropical forests are considered one of the most important biogeographic zones for amphibian species diversity. As a tropical country in Asia, Bangladesh implements different types of forest management practices in its tropical forests, which might affect prevailing forest quality in the existing forest types. The current state of information is not...
Despite the greatest diversity of snakes being in the tropics, detailed ecological studies are rare, especially in tropical Asia. We studied the ecology of a coastal marine homalopsid (rear-fanged, aquatic snakes) assemblage in southeastern Bangladesh. Data were collected on community structure, resource partitioning (diet and habitat), body size a...
The poorly known natricine snake Amphiesma venningi (Wall, 1910), previously reported only from upper Myanmar, southern China and north-eastern India, is added to the herpetofauna of Bangladesh on the basis of an adult specimen collected from the Kaptai National Park, southeastern Bangladesh. Description of the live specimen, scalation patterns and...
Lycodon zawi is reported from Bangladesh for the first time, after its first discovery in 2001 from western Myanmar and northeast India. With a range extension of ~200 km, this is the first country record of the species from Lawachara National Park in northeastern Bangladesh. Description of live specimen, scalation patters, and natural history note...
Le Trionyx noirâtre, Nilssonia, Aspideretes ni�gricans, famille des Trionychidae est une tor�tue de grande taille (longueur de carapace
jusqu’à 91 cm) exclusivement aquatique. Sa distri�bution géographique dans la nature est limitée au fleuve Brahmapoutre et à ses affluents. L’espèce a été décrite à partir d’individus présents dans un étang d’un li...
A herpetofaunal survey was conducted at a relatively disturbed area in Milonchari, central Chittagong Hill Tracts. A total of 24 species (11 frog, nine lizard and four snake species) from 21 different genera, were documented. Of these, at least two lizard species are new records for Bangladesh. One of these, Lygosoma lineolatum, was previously cons...
A study was conducted between March and August 2005 on the diversity and morphometry of bats in Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus, Bangladesh. Three species of bats were recorded from the university campus during the study period, representatives of two families under two suborders. Under the sub-order Megachiroptera the family Pteropodidae is r...
New country record.
LYGOSOMA BOWRINGII (Bowring's Supple Skink).BANGLADESH: COMILLA DISTRICT: Lalmai-Tipperah Hills(23' 22'N,9 I'07'E),
First record of Kalophrynus interlineatus (/orangensis?) in Bangladesh.
