45151286-9f01-45c9-8e4f-10718c225275 https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=fsuu_amws herps_AMWS Tess Sanguila Father Saturnino Urios University Coordinator, Biodiversity Informatics and Research Center

CB 409 Father Saturnino Urios University, San Francisco St., Butuan City Agusan del Norte 8600 PH

mbsanguila@urios.edu.ph https://orcid.org.0000-002-7840-3112 Tess Sanguila Father Saturnino Urios University Coordinator, Biodiversity Informatics and Research Center

CB 409 Father Saturnino Urios University, San Francisco St., Butuan City Agusan del Norte 8600 PH

mbsanguila@urios.edu.ph https://orcid.org.0000-002-7840-3112 Tess Sanguila Father Saturnino Urios University Coordinator, Biodiversity Informatics and Research Center

Butuan City Agusan del Norte 8600 PH

mbsanguila@urios.edu.ph principalInvestigator Rafe Brown University of Kansas Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Curator-in-Charge, Herpetology Division, Biodiversity Institute

Lawrence Kansas 66044 US

rafe@ku.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5338-0658 principalInvestigator Lily Shrestha GBIF Asia lshrestha@gbif.org reviewer 2025-06-19 eng This resource contains an up-to-date dataset of the amphibians and reptiles of Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary since the first herpetological inventory of the Agusan Basin was conducted a century ago. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.html CC-BY-NC-4.0 https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/archive.do?r=fsuu_amws The Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary encompasses six municipalities (Bunawan, Rosario, Loreto, La Paz, Talacogon, and San Francisco) in the Province of Agusan del Sur. 125.757222 125.946111 8.423611 8.205556 N/A phylum Chordata family Geoemydidae family Varanidae order Testudines family Ranidae class Reptilia family Rhacophoridae family Bufonidae order Squamata family Microhylidae family Lamprophiidae family Gekkonidae kingdom Animalia family Pseudaspididae family Scincidae family Cyclocoridae order Squamata order Anura family Colubridae family Viperidae family Elapidae family Pareidae family Dicroglossidae family Agamidae family Ceratobatrachidae class Amphibia This dataset presents new records of 49 species of herpetofauna (16 amphibians and 33 reptiles) from the peat swamp, freshwater swamp, and mixed swamp forests in the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, Agusan del Sur, Philippines. The only comprehensive inventory of the herpetological diversity in the Agusan Basin was conducted by E.H. Taylor more than a century ago. That dataset covered the historical basis of biodiversity in the area, with sites encompassing the current protected area of the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. A few scattered inventories were previously conducted in the area (Ibañez and Bastian 2004; Almeria and Nuñeza 2013; Ngilangil et al. 2014; Sularte et al. 2015; Relox and Camino 2018; Gamalinda et al 2024). Using the historical dataset from Taylor (1920) and Taylor (1975), the few scattered inventories, and our dataset from our herpetological inventories (2008, 2019–2022), we comprehensively put together this dataset to provide the most up-to-date information on the herpetological diversity of Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. The dataset contains the latest taxonomic nomenclatures, the occurrence records of invasive alien and introduced species, and rediscovered species. This dataset will be useful in informing management decisions and guiding biologically conservation action plans for long-term protection initiatives in the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. This dataset has one data file significantly containing a species list with the associated habitat types occupied by each species and dates of collection. Associated files will be uploaded at a later time. asNeeded Tess Sanguila Father Saturnino Urios University

Butuan City Agusan Del Norte 8600 PH

mbsanguila@urios.edu.ph https://orcid.org.0000-002-7840-3112 Visual Encounter Surveys, recording of natural history collection in a field catalog, data transcription, cleaning, and publishing using Darwin Core standards in GBIF. Field surveys were conducted within peat swamp, freshwater swamp, and mixed swamp forests within each of the Municipalities of San Francisco, Rosario, Bunawan, Talacogon, and Loreto in the Province of Agusan del Sur, Caraga Region, Mindanao, Philippines. Visual Encounter Surveys were conducted by experienced fieldworkers to identify and record species occurrences in three major habitat types (peat swamp, freshwater swamp, and mixed swamp). Collected specimens were photographed in life, their microhabitats recorded, and their positions georeferenced. Tess Sanguila https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7840-3112 principalInvestigator Philippine Department of Science and Technology https://www.dost.gov.ph Philippine Commission on Higher Education CMO No. 33 Series 2016 2025-06-14T08:50:24.833+00:00 dataset Sanguila T (2025). Herpetofauna of Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. Version 1.1. Father Saturnino Urios University-Biodiversity Informatics and Research Center (FSUU-BIRC). Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=fsuu_amws&v=1.1 45151286-9f01-45c9-8e4f-10718c225275/v1.1.xml