NUS Squamate Study: 17% Lizards & Snakes Extinct | AcademicJobs
NUS study estimates 17% of Singapore's terrestrial squamates locally extinct; proposes reintroduction of species like Gekko hulk amid recovering habitats.

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Ananthanarayanan Sankar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science from NUS, and he has served as a graduate tutor facilitating modules in ecology. His research centers on herpetology, with specializations in taxonomy, phylogeny, species delimitation, and population viability analysis of amphibians and reptiles. He has authored or co-authored publications including studies on squamate extirpations and recoveries in Singapore, as well as the description of a new species of Micryletta frog from Singapore. Sankar co-founded the Herpetological Society of Singapore and has contributed observations and records to Singapore biodiversity documentation.
NUS study estimates 17% of Singapore's terrestrial squamates locally extinct; proposes reintroduction of species like Gekko hulk amid recovering habitats.