著者

Kento Takata Yanpeng Shen Kanto Nishikawa Masaharu Motokawa

出版者

The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

雑誌

Species Diversity (ISSN:13421670)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, no.1, pp.1-4, 2023-01-01 (Released:2023-01-01)

参考文献数

20

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A specimen of Acrochordidae, Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider, 1799) (Squamata), which was collected on Amamioshima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan in 1938, was discovered in the historical zoological collection of the Kyoto University, Japan. The specimen was originally included in the “Third Higher School collection” and is now kept in the Kyoto University Museum. The specimen represents the first record of this species from Japan. Morphology of the specimen is described, and the migration route of this individual is briefly discussed.