Extinct, obscure or imaginary : The lizard species with the smallest ranges

• Main Authors: Meiri, Shai, Bauer, Aaron Matthew, Allison, Allen, Castro, Fernando, Chirio, Laurent, Das, Indraneil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2018
• Subjects: S Agriculture (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19636/1/Extinct%2C%20obscure%20or.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19636/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.12678

Aim: Small geographic ranges make species especially prone to extinction from anthropogenic disturbances or natural stochastic events. We assemble and analyse a comprehensive dataset of all the world's lizard species and identify the species with the smallest ranges—those known only from their...