REPTILES AND FROGS OF EAST YUNA AND BINDOO HILL NATURE RESERVES

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Introduction: The Yuna area is important because two major geological formations are exposed on the surface - Tumblagooda Sandstone of Silurian origin and Nangetty Formation of Permian origin (see Dell, Introduction this report). The Tumblagooda sandstones upon which lies Bindoo Hill Nature Reserve are an isolated exposure surrounded by more recent Permian sediments of tillite, shale, tillitic sandstone and conglomerate upon which East Yuna Nature Reserve is situated. Important also is the fact that most of the wheatbelt is different geologically from the Yuna area and consists of granites and granitic gneisses of Pre-cambrian origin. Consequently it is likely to have a herpetofauna different from that at Yuna. Notwithstanding the zoogeographic importance of the area, little was known of its biota until the biological survey which resulted in this paper.

Reptiles and frogs were collected on East Yuna Nature Reserve (No. C28415 and C29231) and Bindoo Hill Nature Reserve (C30844) during 7-18 May 1973, 18-30 September 1973 and 12-18 October 1976. For location and size of reserves see Dell (this report).

The annotated list includes those specimens collected during the above dates as well as a few collected by T. Evans during firebreak construction in February 1975. Specimens are registered R47736-41, 48184-48290, 49906-7, 49911-28 and 56996-57013 and are in the Western Australian Museum. All specimens were examined for reproductive data. Measurements are in millimetres. Vegetation location numbers are-referable to Muir (this publication).

Author(s) JOHN DELL & A. CHAPMAN : Part 14
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