1 Cobra, Volume : IV Issue 1. 2010 CATALOGUE OF HERPETOLOGICAL SPECIMENS IN THE CHENNAI SNAKE PARK S.R. Ganesh Chennai Snake Park, Rajbhavan post, Chennai 600 022, India Email: snakeranglerr@gmail.com Chennai Snake Park maintains a collection of wet-preserved, reptile and amphibian specimens in a museum, to provide facilities for identification and classification of herpetofauna. A detailed sketch about this organization appears in Vijayaraghavan (1998). Most of the collections are of captive animals in the exhibit that were, upon their natural death, preserved and placed in the museum. Some were also obtained during field trips undertaken by the park’s officials. Notable among such are those of Romulus Whitaker in the Western Ghats (Whitaker, 1977; Whitaker & Whitaker, 1978) and the Andaman and Nicobar islands (Anonymous, 1978); the late M.V. Rajendran, in Madurai and Kanyakumari districts, Tamil Nadu state (Anonymous, 1980); Shekar Dattatri in Dachigam and Pohur Pajan, Jammu & Kashmir state (Dattatri, 1985); V. Kalaiarasan, R. Rajaratinam and R. Aengals in the Narmada valley, Andhra Pradesh state (Kalaiarasan et al., 1994; 1995 a & b). They (Anonymous, 1978; Anonymous, 1980; Kalaiarasan et al., 1994; 1995 a & b) have already published about the park’s museum, but unfortunately there were some cases of mislabeling due to reorganization of the existing collection. This necessitated me to take up the present work, wherein I examined such specimens and corrected the jar label names. Additionally, the old, then-valid names and conceptions of some of the taxa have been updated herein. Wherever available, the locality data for each specimen has been gleaned from pertinent literature (Anonymous, 1978; Anonymous, 1980; Kalaiarasan et al., 1994; 1995 a & b) and added here. Formalin-preserved, whole, non-type specimens (extant as on June 2010) representing a total of 112 native species consisting of 1 caecilian, 8 anurans, 4 testudines, 32 lizards and 67 snakes are listed below.