Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates






Related bibliographies:

Pacific Ocean

Reptiles
Crocodilians
Crocodylidae
Lizards
Gekkonidae
Scincidae
Snakes
Boidae
Elapidae
[marine species]

Turtles
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae









































































































































































































































































































































Bibliography of the reptiles of
Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Angel, F. 1935. Liste des reptiles recoltes par la Mission Aubert de La Rue aux Nouvelles Hebrides ou dans les îles voisines. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) (Ser. 2) 7(1): 54-56.

Baker, J.R. 1928. The non-marine vertebrate fauna of the New Hebrides. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 10) 2: 294-302.

Baker, J.R. 1929. Man and animals in the New Hebrides. Routledge & Sons., London. 200 pp.

Bauer, A.M. 1988. A geological basis for some herpetofaunal disjunctions in the southwest Pacific, with special reference to Vanuatu. Herpetological Journal 1(7): 259-263.

Cranbrook [Earl] 1985. The lizards of Vanuatu. ASRA (Association for the Study of Reptilia and Amphibia) Journal 2(4): 47-70. (1975?)

Hamilton, A.M.; Hartman, J.H.; Austin, C.C. 2009. Island area and species diversity in the southwest Pacific Ocean: is the lizard fauna of Vanuatu depauperate? Ecography 32(2): 247-258.

Hoyle, M.A. 1978. Forestry and conservation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. Tigerpaper (Bangkok) 5(2): 21-24.

Ineich, I. 2009. The terrestrial herpetofauna of Torres and Banks groups (northern Vanuatu), with report of a new species for Vanuatu. Zootaxa 2198: 1-15.

Ineich, I. 2011. Amphibians and reptiles. In: Bouchet, P.; le Guyader, H. & Pascal, O. Natural History of Santo. Pro-Natura international, Paris. 570 pp.

Lorvelec, O.; Michel, P. 2011. Focus on introduced amphibians and reptiles. In: Bouchet, P.; le Guyader, H. & Pascal, O. Natural History of Santo. Pro-Natura international, Paris. 570 pp.

Medway, Lord; Marshall, A.G. 1975. A discussion of the results of the 1971 Royal Society - Percy Sladen Expedition to the new Hebrides. Terrestrial vertebrates of the new Hebrides: origin and distribution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 272(918): 423-465.

Messel, H. 1994. Review of the status of crocodilians in the Pacific Island nations of Palau, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. pp. 1-40. In: Crocodile Specialist Group. Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 2nd regional meeting (eastern Asia, Oceania, Australasia) of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN - the World Conservation Union convened at Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 12 to 19 March 1993. IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group in conjunction with the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Gland & Palmerston. 630 pp.

Messel, H.; King, F.W. 1994. Survey and plan for recovery of the crocodile population of the Republic of Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific Ocean and a project for the sustainable use of wildlife resources based at Port Patteson on Vanua Lava, Banks Islands, in the Banks-Torres conservation region. A report to the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu. pp. 1-23. In: Crocodile Specialist Group. Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 2nd regional meeting (eastern Asia, Oceania, Australasia) of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN - the World Conservation Union convened at Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 12 to 19 March 1993. IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group in conjunction with the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, Gland & Palmerston. 630 pp.

Roux, J. 1913. Les reptiles de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et des Îles Loyalty. Appendice: Note sur quelques reptiles des Nouvelles-Hebrides, des Îles Banks et Santa Cruz. pp. 79-160. F. Sarasin u. J. Roux, Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie. Bd 1, H. 2., Wiesbaden C. W. Kreidel.

Webster, J. 1985. The herpetofauna of Vanuatu (Pacific Ocean). British Herpetological Society Bulletin 11: 13.

Zug, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and amphibians of the Pacific islands. A comprehensive guide. University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles. 306 pp.