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Department of Vertebrate Zoology

Division of Amphibians & Reptiles

Oxyrhopus petola
Oxyrhopus petola Ecuador, Napo Province. Photographed by William W. Lamar
Cochranella midas
Crochranella midas Ecuador, Napo Province. Photographed by Roy McDiarmid

 

Collections by

History of Collection

AMPHIBIANS NUMBER OF SPECIMENS
Frogs over 146,000
Salamanders over 230,000
Caecilians over 350

 

REPTILES NUMBER OF SPECIMENS
Crocodilians over 800
Tuatara 16
Lizards over 110,000
Amphisbaenians over 500
Snakes over 52,000
Turtles over 19,000

 

Numbers of specimens for individual species can be found on the California Academy of Sciences Herpetology Combined Museum Collection Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(rev. September 2007)

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