Investigation Of Amphibians And Reptiles In Wuyi Mountain Tongmu Area And Mangdang Mountain National Nature Reserve,Fujian Province

Fujian Wuyi and Mangdang Moutain Nature Reserve are located in the Xianxian-Wuyi Mountains,ecosystem and biodiversity is very rich.It's a hot area for biodiversity conservation research.Amphibians and reptiles are two animal groups that are important in the evolution of vertebrates and also the two most threatening groups in China.In order to explore the resource status of amphibians and reptiles in two reserves and make reasonable suggestions for the protection of biodiversity,we conducted field surveys from September 2015 to October 2016 with line transect method.Combined with historical literature,the results are as follows:(1)Mangdang Mountain Nature Reserve have 33 species of amphibians,belonging to 22 genera and 9 families.Ranidae and Microhyla are dominant familys,genus.Duttaphrynus melanostictus,Rana zhenhaiensis,Fejervarya multistriata,Limnonectes fujianensis are dominant species.The Margalef index is used to determinate the richness of each habitat type of the amphibians in the reserve.Index from large to small are:terrestrial static water type(1.334),aquatic type(0.843),calm water type(0.580),arboreal type(0.239),terrestrial floating water type(0).(2)Mangdang Mountain Nature Reserve has 73 species of reptiles,belonging to 50 genera,14 families and 2 orders.Sphenomorphus incognitus and Lycodon futsingensis were new recorded species.Plestiodon elegans,Sphenomorphus indicus,Cyclophiops major are dominant species.The results of ecological diversity analysis shows that the richness index of the shrub-rock type is 3.376 which is highest at the 6 types and followed by wood-riverside type,1.2430 and residential type,0.9618.Aquatic type and arboreal type share the same,0.7213.There is only I soil type species found and richness index is 0.(3)18 amphibian species,belonging to 13 genera,5 families and 2 orders were found in Wuyi mountain Tongmu area.Bufo gargarizans,Limnonectes fujianensis,Amolops ricketti,Odorrana huanggangensis are dominant species.Amphibian diversity of the aquatic type is the abundant(1.5490)while the calm water type is the least(0.3235).Terrestrial static water type and terrestrial floating water type's richness index were 0.5939 and 0.5557 respectively.No arboreal type species found in the investigation.(4)30 amphibian species,belonging to 26 genera,8 families and 2 order were found in Wuyi mountain Tongmu area.Plestiodon elegans,Opisthotropis latouchii,Viridovipera stejnegeri are dominant species.Richness index of habitat type from large to small are:shrub-rock type(4.1354),wood-riverside type(2.0556),residential type(0.7213),arboreal type(0.7059),Aquatic type(0.3285).(5)The G-F index on the reptiles and amphibians in the two reserves shows that:a)Mangdang reptiles(DF=7.9935)>Wuyi reptiles(DF=7.8658)>Wuyi amphibians(DF=6.4127)>Mangdang amphibians(DF=6.2584);b)Wuyi reptiles(DG=3.8517)>Mangdang reptiles(DG=3.7919)>Wuyi amphibians(DG=3.0352)>Mangdang amphibians(DG=2.9766).(6)Two reserves both belong to Wuyi mountains.The amphibians and reptiles in the reserves are mainly belonging to Oriental realm,among which south and central China species are dominant(amphibians 60%,reptiles 75%).(7)Mangdang and Wuyi Mountain reserves have 13 threatened amphibian species(32.50%),2 national class ? protected animal:Hoplobatrachus chinensis,Andrias davidianus,32 amphibian species belong to species belong to three beneficial protected animal,1 amphibian species belong to CITES.Two reserves have 35 threatened reptile species(41.67%),1 national class I protected animal:Python bivittatus.74 reptile species belong to three beneficial protected animaland 4 reptile species belong to CITES.