1. This is a part of the second nation-side survey of natural environment by the Ministry of Environment of Korea in 1997 and the Amphibians and Reptiles were surveyed in the area of Daegu and Dalsung.
2. The survey area was divided into 6 parts and...
1. This is a part of the second nation-side survey of natural environment by the Ministry of Environment of Korea in 1997 and the Amphibians and Reptiles were surveyed in the area of Daegu and Dalsung.
2. The survey area was divided into 6 parts and the survey was carried out by the visiting and inquiry method.
3. The Amphibians surveyed were calssified into 2 orders, 6 families and 9 species, and Reptiles were classified into 2 orders, 6 families and 14 species, respectively.
4. Among the 23 species, 16 species, were surveyed at all the 6 parts. And among the surveyed species, 10 were rare or endangered species.
5. The result showed that several species decreased because of the destroy of habitat by the deforestation, overcatching for the materials of Korean medicine, and especially the prey by introduced foreign species-Rana catesbiana.
6. Elaphe schrenckii distributed in some areas and Gekko japonicus, having been reported extinct after 1920, distributed in Mt. Pi-suhl, Chung-ryong, and Choi-jung.