Return to Herpetology Catalogue of IndiaThe Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago : Volume I--Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria; Volume II--Ophidia/Nelly De Rooij. Reprint. First published by E.J. Brill, Leiden in 1915-1917. 1994, 2 volumes in one, 384, 334 p., 249 illustrations, $110.
From the introduction: "This work contains descriptions of all the reptiles that have been recorded from the islands of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, generally known as the Dutch East-Indies, a region, containing all the islands between Sumatra westwards and New Guinea eastwards and including the whole of Borneo, Timor and New Guinea, part of which islands politically belong to other states. Besides, I added a few species from some of the smaller islands eastwards of New Guinea. These species are up till now not yet known from the mainland of this large island, but it is allowed to suppose that they may be found there in a near future, as some other species have already proved to do.
"As a rule the classification used by G.A. Boulenger in his catalogues of the reptiles in the British Museum has been followed here. This author gives complete lists of synonyms, so that it seemed sufficient to me to quote the name of every species, by which it has first been described, followed by the one, used by Boulenger and which has been accepted by the greater part of the herpetologists.
"At the end of each diagnosis follows the largest known length in millimeters of the species; length of head and body means the distance between the tip of the snout and the vent. A species examined by myself has been indicated by a! behind the name of the locality where it was found.
"A great deal of the described reptiles were examined and compared by me with the existing descriptions in the Amsterdam Museum, which possesses collections from all the different parts of the Indo-Australian Archipelago."
[Dr. Nelly De Rooji was Curator of the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam.]No. 8835