. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 124 Philipp WagnI:R & Wolfgang Böhme: The amphibians and reptiles of Kakamega Forest, western Kenya. o 3 6 9 12 km ''^ ^j I ; --T ââ â^^-1â' 1 ^ ' Fig. 1. The main areas of investigation of BIOTA East Africa in the Kakamega Forest in the background a subset of a Land- sat 7 (ETM+) scene from 5 Feb 2001, contrast-enhanced band combination 5/4/3 for within-forest differentiation but printed in black and white. (Courtesy to G. Sc haab of BIOTA - E02). scale, Kaka
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 124 Philipp WagnI:R & Wolfgang Böhme: The amphibians and reptiles of Kakamega Forest, western Kenya. o 3 6 9 12 km ''^ ^j I ; --T ââ â^^-1â' 1 ^ ' Fig. 1. The main areas of investigation of BIOTA East Africa in the Kakamega Forest in the background a subset of a Land- sat 7 (ETM+) scene from 5 Feb 2001, contrast-enhanced band combination 5/4/3 for within-forest differentiation but printed in black and white. (Courtesy to G. Sc haab of BIOTA - E02). scale, Kakamega forest is not considered as a hot-spot be- cause in comparison with e. g. the Mt. NIonako in Cameroon (99 amphibian [Herrmann et al. 2005a] and 89 reptile species, [Herrmann et al. 2005b]) the diversi- ty is comparatively low. Compared with other vertebrate groups. East African am- phibians and reptiles are rather poorly studied and insuf- ficiently known. In order to provide conservationists da- ta for defining priorities for conservation it is necessai^ to obtain basic infonnation on the diversity and commu- nity of forest amphibians and reptiles. Amphibians have been intensively studied by several au- thors within the 'Biota East Africa Project' (e. g. Schick et al. 2005; Lötters et al. 2004; Lötters et al. 2006; Köh- ler et al. 2006) whereas reptiles have been surveyed on- ly superficially in the Kaimosi fragment by Loveridge (1935. 1936) and in the main forest by Drewes (1976). Subsequently no further reports on Kakamega reptiles have been published apart from the mentioning of single voucher specimens as e. g. in Spawls et al. (2002) and publications arising from this study (Böhme et al. 2005; Köhler et al. 2004; Wagner & Schmitz 2006; Wagner et al. subm.). The aim of the present paper is to provide an overview of the herpetofauna of this forest as basic infonnation for conservationists and wildlife biologists and to highlight the importanc
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