. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. II KIM I Ol C H IV (IN II 11 I KIN(,I S Ol I I II Sl'NDA Sl. FIG. 6. The Malay Peninsula of southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia showing its major mountain ranges and its associated archipelagos for which herpetofaunal records exist. nature of the Malay Peninsula (Woodruff 2003). Ephemeral seaways cut across the peninsula at the Isthmus of Kra between the Tenasserim and Nakhon Si Thammarat mountains in Thailand and further south between Kangar in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia and Songkhla in southern Thailand, ini- tially multifurcating wide-
. Bonner zoologische Monographien. Zoology. II KIM I Ol C H IV (IN II 11 I KIN(,I S Ol I I II Sl'NDA Sl. FIG. 6. The Malay Peninsula of southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia showing its major mountain ranges and its associated archipelagos for which herpetofaunal records exist. nature of the Malay Peninsula (Woodruff 2003). Ephemeral seaways cut across the peninsula at the Isthmus of Kra between the Tenasserim and Nakhon Si Thammarat mountains in Thailand and further south between Kangar in northwestern Peninsular Malaysia and Songkhla in southern Thailand, ini- tially multifurcating wide-ranging lineages, while the regression of these same seaways allowed multiple instances of secondary contact and overlap (, Woodruff2003, Reddy 2008, Grismer etal. in press). Such a dynamic geological history manifests itself in tree topology as sister lineages occurring on opposite sides of these vicariant zones in both deep and shal- low regions of the same phylogeny (Woodruff 2003, L. Grismer et al. in press). Paralleling the mountain systems of the Malay Peninsula, and Peninsular Malaysia in particular, are a series of shallow-water, landbridge archipelagos and islands (Fig. 6) whose geological origins are tied to those of the adjacent peninsular mountains and the emergence and subsidence of the Sunda Shelf. In the South China Sea, the archipelagos of Redang, Per- hentian, and Tenggol, as well as several smaller islands and scattered islands in their general vicinity, are relict mountain tops of the Banjaran Timur of Pen- insular Malaysia that became isolated during the 75. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bonn, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig
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