Fauna of protected areas - 19: Herpetofauna of Nallamalai hills with eleven new from the region including ten new records for Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

An inventory of herpetofauna of Nallamalai hills of Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh, revealed that the region contains at least 18 species of amphibians belonging to 11 genera, distributed in 4 families and 48 species of reptiles belonging to 34 genera, distributed in 12 families, out of which eleven new records from the region including ten new records for the state.