Snakes of a continental island : History and patterns of discovery of the snake fauna of Borneo to the start of the Anthropocene.

Indraneil, Das (2023) Snakes of a continental island : History and patterns of discovery of the snake fauna of Borneo to the start of the Anthropocene. In: Islands and snakes : Diversity and conservation. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780197641521

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Abstract

Its biological diversity “hidden in plain sight” (Poe 1844), the gigantic tropical island of Borneo (Figure 1.1) was known to ancient seafarers as “Land Below the Wind” (Keith 1940), yet not worthy of conquest or exploration (this was before the realization of the value of timber or petroleum). The English traveler Earl (1837) wrote that the north coast was “scarcely known even to the native trader,” and it is thus unremarkable that scientific research and explorations of the island were to commence much later compared to the adjacent and smaller islands of Sumatra and Java.

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