Mapping for herps in Aus

[RemoverAccount]

Im interested to know if anyone knows of any mapping that has been done to visually represent species and their geographic range, including natural gradients to other sub species.
eg map of Aus - with core range and gradient ranges shown.

Im sure there will be some good publications about - but i havent even started looking there yet.

any info appreciated.

Cheers

 

[pythons-rock!]

The best I've seen are those retained in the data bases of Australian Museums and government environment departments. If these were collaborated together for a main species (eg carpet pythons) from each state into an Australia wide map... hey presto we'd have such maps available. It would help with such issues as taxonomy and would be far better than the distribution maps available in text books, which are often so... very... wrong! How often have people on here seen one so inaccurate it made them just laugh at the author's ignorance????

 

[RemoverAccount]

Yeah thanks - was thinking the museum might be the go. There must be a wealth of research - id expect a museum publication to have pretty good ranges... ill have a look.

 

[Serpentes]

No such publication exists outside of the Atlas of Australian Vertebrates: Elapids.

You need to purchase museum specimen locality data for each area and species you are interested in. It's not too cheap either.

 

[Sdaji]

The best distribution map along with descriptions and explanations of the distribution for any Australian reptile (and maybe any reptile at all) has been done for the Bynoe's Gecko complex ("Heteronotia binoei" - which includes about four species). It was done by Dr Michael Kearney.