Amphibians and reptiles from Zoltan Kaszab’s expeditions to Mongolia held at the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Abstract

The amphibians and reptiles collected by Zoltán Kaszab in Mongolia between 1963Mongolia between -1968 in the Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, are reviewed. The 786 studied specimens belong to 15 species (Bufotes pewzowi, Strauchbufo raddei, Rana amurensis, Alsophylax pipiens, Paralaudakia stoliczkana, Phrynocephalus versicolor, P. kulagini, P. hispidus, Eremias argus, E. arguta, E. multiocellata, E. dzungarica, E. przewalskii, Elaphe dione, Gloydius halys) representing 57% of amphibian and reptile species of Mongolia. Our identification and map representation provide new distribution data for the fitteen species and represent a source of information for the status of the Mongolian herpetofauna in the mid-20th century.

Range-Wide Phylogeography and Ecological Niche Modeling Provide Insights into the Evolutionary History of the Mongolian Racerunner (Eremias argus) in Northeast Asia

“…We excluded those variables with Pearson correlation coefficients r > 0.8 based on pairwise comparison of raster files in SDMtoolbox v2.0 [64]. We obtained 96 occurrence records of E. argus from the individuals sampled in this study, and 220 occurrence records downloaded from GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/ (accessed on 3 May 2022)) and the literature (e.g., [32,[77][78][79]) (see Table S6). All sampling sites were also rarified at a spatial distance of 120 km using SDMtoolbox v2.0 [64], resulting in a total of 74 sampling sites (see Table S7).…”