Snakes Wallacea (Lesser Sundas, Maluku)

[colin trainor <>]

Hi - Two fieldguides to the snakes of Wallacea have recently been published by 
Ruud de Lang including "Snakes of the Moluccas (Maluku), Indonesia" in about 
Dec 2013.

I mention this here because about 40-50 of the 300 photos of snakes (an 
therefore species site records) and habitat in the Maluku book were contributed 
by Australian and Oriental birders - including Birding-aus-ers Peter Lansley.

The book is available in the usual places, probably Andrew Isles at some stage. 
The snake fauna has many links to Australia, including apparently undescribed 
Death Adders [Acanthophis] on quite a few islands.

Thanks,

Colin Trainor



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Hi - A few Australian birders visit East Timor, West Timor and other parts of 
Nusa Tenggara.

Ruud de Lang [delaroz AT hetnet.nl] has just had "Snakes of the Lesser Sundas" 
[Lombok through to Timor and
Wetar] published. This included many photographs of snakes and habitats from 
oriental birders. The book included more that 300 colour photographs of the 30 
odd snakes in the islands.

This is an excellent book, though with only 30 species, a 60-90 page booklet in
English and Indonesian, would be ideal for identification in the field [1 page
information and 1 page of photos per species]. Up to about 50 photos are given 
of the
"White-lipped Island Viper/Green pit viper" which has blue, yellow and green
colour forms! The blue ones on Komodo look stunning.

http://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/the-snakes-of-the-lesser-sunda-\
islands-nusa-tenggara-indonesia-a-field-guide-to-the-terrestrial-and-semi-aquati\
c-snakes-of-the-lesser-sunda-islands-with-identification-key

Ruud is currently working on snakes of Maluku - if anyone has snake photos from
Halmahera, Seram, Buru, Kai, Tanimbar, Ambon etc, and habitat shots, please send
them on to Ruud, email above.

Thanks,

Colin Trainor
                                                                                
  
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