INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Neil Ashley Cox, Marcelo Fabio Tognelli, Philip Michael Bowles and Claudine Gibson
The latter had specifically visited Sri Lanka for the assessment.Almost all the Sri Lanka experts working on reptiles were present at this
Speaking to the Sunday Times, herpetologist Mendis Wickremasinghe said this kind of assessment was important as there was an extinction
crisis Sri Lanka reptiles faced
The checklist of reptiles consists of 155 species in 1993 but by 2012, it grew upto 211, with half of them endemic to Sri Lanka
However, due to habitat loss and other key reasons, Sri Lanka reptiles are becoming rarer.
