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Museum of Natural History

Volume 15, No. 2, pp. 149-173

January 31, 1962

Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea

BY
ROBERT G. WEBB, J. KNOX JONES, JR., AND GEORGE W. BYERS

University of Kansas
Lawrence
1962

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University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 15, No. 2, pp. 149-173
Published January 31, 1962

University of Kansas
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Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea

BY
ROBERT G. WEBB, J. KNOX JONES, JR., AND GEORGE W. BYERS

In 1954, two of us (Jones and Byers) collected reptiles andamphibians in Korea incidental to field studies relating to hemorrhagicfever. The 382 specimens thus obtained were depositedeither in the Museum of Natural History of The University ofKansas (KU), or in the Museum of Zoology of the University ofMichigan (UMMZ), and are the basis for the present report. ContinuousAmerican military operations of one sort or another inKorea since 1945 have afforded opportunities for interested personsto obtain there collections of amphibians and reptiles, the studyof which has resulted in several recent publications (Babb, 1955;Dixon, 1956; Hahn, 1959 and 1960; Shannon, 1956 and 1957;Stewart, 1953 and 1954; Tanner, 1953; Walley, 1958a and 1958b).This paper, which contains comments on the natural history andtaxonomy of 22 species, all previously reported from Korea, supplementsearlier studies, especially Shannon's (1956) annotated listof the herpetofauna of the country.

Shannon (loc. cit.<