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Checklist of the Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Guiana Shield. Tom Hollowell and Robert P. Reynolds, Editors
Published 21 December 2005 Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, Number 13.


Preliminary Checklist of the Herpetofauna of Guyana (Reptiles and Amphibians). Contributed by Robert P. Reynolds, Ross MacCulloch, Mike Tamessar, Cynthia Watson, Charles J. Cole, and Carol Townsend.

A Field Checklist of the Birds of Guyana. Contributed by Michael J. Braun, Davis W. Finch, Mark B.Robbins, and Brian K. Schmidt. Printed in hard copy as a compact field guide (second edition printed in 2007).

Checklist of the Mammals of Guyana. Contributed by Mark Engstrom and Burton Lim.

Checklist of the Mammals of the Guiana Shield. Contributed by Burton Lim, Mark Engstrom and José Ochoa G.
This web version was made available pending the publication of the Checklist of the Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Guiana Shield in 2005.

 Pitangus sulphuratus, photo Mark Robbins
Pitangus sulphuratus.
Photo, Mark Robbins
Ancistrus lithurgicus, from Eigenmann, 1912

Ancistrus lithurgicus, from C.H. Eigenmann, 1912. Freshwater Fishes of British Guiana. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum V(1).

Upcoming project: Fishes of the Guiana Shield


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Tom Hollowell
Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program
Department of Botany, MRC 166, P.O. Box 37012
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC 20013-7012             email: hollowelltatsi.edu

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