Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, United States.
PeerJ. 2023 Aug 21;11:e15766. doi: 10.7717/peerj.15766. eCollection 2023.
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has a unique geology and geography, which have produced an astoundingly diverse and endemic flora and fauna and a fascinating biogeographic history. Much biodiversity research has focused on the regional endemism in the island's Central Core and on its four peninsulas, but the biodiversity of the island's many upland regions is still poorly understood for most taxa, including amphibians and reptiles. Here, we report the first of several planned full-mountain checklists from a series of herpetological surveys of Sulawesi's mountains conducted by our team. In more than 3 weeks of work on Gunung Galang, a 2,254 m peak west of the city of Tolitoli, Sulawesi Tengah Province, on Sulawesi's Northern Peninsula, we recovered nearly fifty species of reptiles and amphibians, more than a dozen of which are either new to science or known but undescribed. The incompleteness of our sampling suggests that many more species remain to be discovered on and around this mountain.
印度尼西亚苏拉威西岛具有独特的地质和地理条件，形成了令人惊叹的多样化和特有植物群和动物群，以及引人入胜的生物地理历史。许多生物多样性研究都集中在该岛中心核心区和四个半岛的区域特有现象上，但对于包括两栖动物和爬行动物在内的大多数分类群，该岛许多高地地区的生物多样性仍知之甚少。在这里，我们报告了由我们团队对苏拉威西岛山区进行的一系列爬行动物调查中的首次多项全面山地清单之一。在苏拉威西岛北半岛托利托利市以西的 2254 米高的 Gunung Galang 山上进行了 3 周多的工作，我们共采集到近 50 种爬行动物和两栖动物，其中有十几个是新发现的科学物种或已知但未被描述的物种。我们的采样不完整表明，在这座山及其周围地区可能还有更多的物种有待发现。
