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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.

REPTILES AND FROGS

Compared with other countries New Zealand has few kinds of frogs and reptiles but the native frogs and the tuatara are among the world's most curious and interesting living fauna.

Co-creator

Richard Essex Barwick, M.SC.(N.Z.), Lecturer, Zoology Department, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T.