Herpetological Review 51(4), 2020 811 BOOK REVIEWS 811 occupy, as they range from coral reefs to rocky escarpments and alpine woodlands. A variety of good images of these habitats is provided. Next is identification of snakes and some color photographs showing the different head shapes of typhlopids, along with a python and an elapid snake that are used to demonstrate scalation. Individual scales are highlighted with a key to these diagrams and also how to count mid-body scale rows. Line drawings traditionally have been used to illustrate scalation, but the provision of a color photograph with individual scales highlighted, as in this case, is just as effective. The following page explains how to use the book and mentions that the taxonomy follows Cogger’s (2019) Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, with the exception of the addition of newly described taxa. Here, the authors explain that the book is designed to provide up-to-date information on each of Australia’s snakes. This section is meant as an introductory guide for assisting in identification. In many cases, key points of reference to separate species from an individual’s nearest relatives are provided. This page also explains the distribution key used for different states and other areas of Australia. A mention of the different potential danger rankings for different groups of venomous snakes is listed here as well. The next few pages contain a useful glossary. From here the book moves into the species accounts with a small discussion about the family preceding the species information. The species accounts take up the bulk of the book (pp. 17–163) and average about two species per page with an accompanying photograph. Each account contains a description, distribution, habitat and habits and a potential danger ranking. Good useful information is provided in each of these categories. It is usual for field guides to have a distribution map for each species; I would have liked to see these included, but were probably considered beyond the constraints of the book. In keeping with most field guides, dichotomous keys are not provided and the identification of many species relies on the use of a good photographic image, scale counts, distribution, scale conditions and sometimes internal organ position. Both species and subspecies are given their own entries. Subspecies are clearly identified by the additional subspecific name in the entry’s heading. The species accounts describe in detail two species of file snakes, 18 pythons, 7 colubrids (including introduced species), 119 terrestrial elapids, 36 marine elapids, 5 mangrove snakes, and 48 blind snakes. Although it is technically correct to list marine and terrestrial elapids together alphabetically, I prefer these two groups treated separately for easier comparison. The last few pages contain a complete checklist of the snakes of Australia and in which states they occur. An IUCN conservation rating also is applied to each species. This book is a comprehensive guide to the Australian snake fauna. It is designed as a field guide (180 × 125 mm) with soft covers, glued binding, and semi-gloss paper. It will appeal to field naturalists, bushwalkers, and serious herpetologists, and should be included in the library of anyone with an interest in Australian snakes. LITERATURE CITED COGGER, H. G. 2019. Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia. Updated Seventh Edition. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. 1080 pp. Herpetological Review, 2020, 51(4), X–X. © 2020 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Identification Guide. Amphibians & Reptiles of South Tanintharyi George R. Zug and Daniel G. Muhcahy. 2019. Fauna & Flora International – Myanmar Programme, Yangon. 202 pp. Free e-book downloads from https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/342703728_Identification_Guide_Amphibians_Reptiles_ of_South_Tanintharyi. ISBN 978-99971-0-751-0. INDRANEIL DAS Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia e-mail: idas@unimas.my Myanmar, renamed from Burma in 1989 by its military rulers, is a mid-sized (676,575 km 2 , or about twice the size of Italy) Southeast Asian nation, and the northern-most member of the mostly cohesive group of countries known as ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations). Having joined the global economy only in the late 1990s, it remains an entrant in regional cooperation blocks and world bodies in terms of development, despite the fact that the first non-Scandinavian Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant (1909–1974), was from Burma. It would be an understatement to refer to the herpetofauna of Myanmar as poorly understood. In fact, the most recent herpetological publications for the country, prior to the engagement of the United States National Museum (USNM) in 1997 (see Zug et al. 1998), were scarce works published after World War II, such as Hundley (1964); to this day, the syntheses of Theobald (1868) and especially the three-volume compilation of Smith (1931, 1935, 1943) continue to be cited. Modern research (apart from reviews based on the literature or museum specimens, e.g., Dowling and Jenner 1988) began with the studies by George Zug, Emeritus Curator of the USNM, and his colleagues from that institution and associates from the California Academy of Sciences. This research has led to species descriptions and faunal revisions (Slowinski et al. 2001), range extensions (Lee et al. 2015, 2019; Platt et al. 2018; Wogan et al. 2008), collection of genetic material in support of future studies (Mulcahy et al. 2018), and the production of resources valuable for health and medicine (Leviton et al. 2003). The current work, published by Flora and Fauna International (FFI) Myanmar Programme, stems from the field research by Zug and his colleague, Dan Mulcahy, of the Global Genome Initiative, a specialist on analytical laboratory procedures and quality assessment of genomic collections. Mulcahy joined the herpetological surveys in southern Tanintharyi in 2014 to assist the FFI, primarily to convince the government to establish two national parks. In the succeeding three years (2015–2017), he was assisted by the faculty and students of Myeik University to prepare inventories of the region. Thus, in a way, the book can be considered a product of citizen science. Notably, it was submitted for publication in 2019 and published in the latter part of the