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Bibliography of the reptiles of
Mauritius Island  [Mauritius]

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Budzinski, S.; Budzinski, R.M. 2010. Taggeckos der Insel Mauritius. Draco 11(43): 45-52.

Bullock, D.J. 1986. The ecology and conservation of reptiles on Round Island and Gunner's Quoin, Mauritius. Biological Conservation 37(2): 135-156.

Bullock, D.J. 1988. Herpetofauna of the northern Mauritian islands (Indian Ocean). British Herpetological Society Bulletin 25: 14-15.

Cheke, A.S. 1987. The legacy of the dodo - conservation in Mauritius. Oryx 6(1): 29-36.

Cole, N. 2002. The decline of Mauritian night and day geckos. Chit Chat (Newsletter of the GGA) 10): 14-16.

Cole, N.C. 2005. The ecological impact of the invasive House Gecko Hemidactylus frenatus upon endemic Mauritian geckos. Dissertation, degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. 208 pp.

Deraniyagala, P.E.P. 1960. Two giant tortoises in the Colombo National Museum. Spolia Zeylanica 29: 19-22.

Froidevaux, H. 1899. Textes historiques inedits ou peu connus relatifs aux tortues de terre de l'ile Bourbon. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris) 1899: 214-218.

Gadow, H. 1894. On the remains of some gigantic land-tortoises, and of an extinct lizard, recently discovered in Mauritius. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 13: 313-324.

Gadow, H. 1894. Sur les restes de quelques tortues terrestres gigantesques et d'un lizard eteint recemment decouverts a l'ile Maurice. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 7(18): 247-266.

Greer, A.E. 1970. The systematics and evolution of the Subsaharan Africa, Seychelles, and Mauritius scincine scincid lizards. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 140: 1-23.

Günther, A. 1873. Preliminary notice of some extinct Tortoises from the islands of Rodriguez and Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 4) 11: 397.

Haddon, A.C. 1881. On the extinct land-tortoises of Mauritius and Rodriguez. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2(2): Unpaginated.

Iverson, J.B. 1987. Tortoises, not dodos, and the tambalacoque tree. Journal of Herpetology 21(3): 229-230.

Kundert, S. 2014. Mauritius - Urlaubs- und Naturparadies im Indischen Ozean. Testudo 23(2): 7-29.

Mertens, R. 1963. The geckos of the genus Phelsuma on Mauritius and adjacent islands. Bulletin Mauritius Institute 5: 299-304.

Owadally, A.W.; Lambert, M. 1988. Herpetology in Mauritius. A history of extinction, future hope for conservation. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 23: 11-20.

Rothschild, W. 1894. Remarks and corrections relating to the living giant tortoise of Mauritius. Novitates Zoologicae (London) 1: 690.

Temple, S.A. 1974. Wildlife in Mauritius today. Oryx 12(5): 584-590.

Tonge, S. 1989. A preliminary account of changes in reptile populations on Round Island following the eradication of rabbits. Dodo 26: 8-17.

Tonge, S. 1990. The past, present and future of the herpetofauna of Mauritius. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 25(12): 220-226.

Vinson, J. 1950. L'Ile Ronde et l'Ile aus Serpents. Proceedings R. Soc. Arts Sci. Mauritius 1: 32-52.

Vinson, J. 1953. Some recent data on the fauna of Round and Serpent Islands. Proceedings roy. Soc. Mauritius 1(3): 253-257.

Vinson, J. 1964. Quelques remarques sur l'ile Rodrigue et sur sa faune terrestre. Proceedings R. Soc. Arts Sci. Mauritius 2: 263-277.

Vinson, J.M. 1976. The saurian fauna of the Mascarene islands. 2. The distribution of Phelsuma species in Mauritius. Bulletin Mauritius Institute 8(2): 177-195.