A Contribution to the Herpetology of Northern Pakistan

Abstract

The technical contents of the work are preceded by the dedication, foreword, acknowledgments, and an introduction (including location, climate, and conservation aspects of Pakistan's natural resources, a listing of 26 national parks, details of the author's primary study site, the Margalla Hills, and an enumeration of previous studies), scope of the present study, and methods employed. Taxonomic judgments are sound (with perhaps the exception of the choice of Boidae for Pakistan's sole species of Python, rather than Pythonidae; the usage of the catchall family name Colubridae for a number of genera now allocated to other families; and the recognition of Hydrophiidae as a family distinct from Elapidae).