In early September I met up with visiting researcher Dr. Ru Somaweera, to help him in finding some local Jeju amphibians and reptiles. I decided to go with Halla Arboretum because it's close to the city and there's records for nearly all of the amphibians and reptiles of Jeju there.
We got incredibly lucky, partly due to my local knowledge, but also of his absolute expertise in finding species from these two groups. The most impressive was finding a Jeju Salamander in the tail end of summer, something I thought would be fairly difficult. We also found some frogs and snake species. A very successful trip and wonderful to show Dr. Ru around a little bit.
He has a successful Youtube channel, mostly in his native Sri Lankan, check out the Jeju video here:
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| Hynobius quelpaertensis |
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| Rana uenoi |
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| Bombina orientalis |
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| Gloydius ussuriensis |
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