摘要
Asian Herpetological Research(AHR),an international English language journal,is published quarterly by the Chengdu Institute of Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(CIB),and Science Press in cooperation with the Asiatic Herpetological Research Society(AHRS).The scope of the journal includes all contemporary herpetological research areas including taxonomy,morphology,phylogeny,systematics,evolution,zoogeography,physiology,ecology,toxicology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles.The principal criteria of AHR for acceptance of articles for publication are the quality and significance of the