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Malaysian biospeleology bibliography

This page was first developed by Bernard LEBRETON in 1999. The information has been updated here. Please note this is NOT meant as a complete bibliography, only some of the more easily accessible publications are listed. For full details, please see MALAYSIAN CAVE BIBLIOGRAPHY on books page.

Bibliography

ABDULLAH M.T., NEUCHLOS, Jub & NORHAYANI JALAWEH 2003 First record of Hipposideros ater in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Sarawak Museum Journal 79: 271-274.
ABDULLAH, M.T; PAUL, I.V. & HALL, Les, 2005 A frightful stairway to cave bats in Borneo. BATS, Fall 2005, 23(3)11-13.

CHAPMAN, P, 1980 The biology of caves in the Gunung Mulu Nat. Park. British Cave Research Assoc.Trans. 7(3)141-149.
CHAPMAN, P, 1982 Ecology of caves in the Gunung Mulu National Park. Cave Science, June, 9(2)142-162.
CHAPMAN, P, 1983 Species diversity in a tropical cave ecosystem. Procs. Uni. Bristol Spel. Soc. 16(3)201-213. [Sarawak]
CHAPMAN, P, 1984 Invertebrates at Niah Great Cave, Batu Niah Nat.Park. Cave Science, July, 11(2)89-91.
CHAPMAN, P, 1984 The invertebrate fauna of the caves of Gunung Mulu Nat. Park. Sarawak Museum Jnl 30(51), Pt II:1-18.
CHAPMAN, P, 1985 Cave frequenting vertebrates in the Gunung Mulu Nat.Park. SMJ 34(55)101-113.

DITTMAR, K.; PORTER, M; PRICE, L; SVENSON, G & WHITING, M. 2005 A brief survey of invertebrates in caves of Peninsular Malaysia. MNJ, Sept, 57(2)221-233.

HALL, Leslie S., 1994. THE MAGIC OF MULU . BATS. Vol 12, No 4:8-12.
HALL L. 1996. Observation on bats in Gua Payau (Deer Cave), Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 72:111-124.
HALL, L.S.; RICHARDS, Greg C. & ABDULLAH, M.T. 2002 The bats of Niah National Park, Sarawak. SMJ, Dec, 57(78)255-282.

JAYARAJ, V.Kumaran; FAISAL, A.A.K. & ABDULLAH, M.T. (2005) Bats of Mount Penrissen, Padawan, Sarawak. SMJ 61(82)263-274.

KANG NEE; HAILS, C. & SIGURDSSON, J. 1990 Nest construction and egg laying in edible-nest swiftlets Aerodramus spp. and the implications for harvesting. SMJ 133:170-177.
KOCK, D; ALTMANN, J & PRICE, L 2000 A fruit bat new to West Malaysia: Rousettus leschenaultii (Desmarest 1820) in Batu Caves. MNJ, 54(1)63-67. [Dark Cave]

LANGHAM, N. 1980 Breeding biology of the edible-nest swiftet Aerodramus fuciphagus. SMJ, 122:447-461.
LIM CHAN KOON & EARL of CRANBROOK 2002 Swiftlets of Borneo. Natural History Pubs, Jan, 171pp (132 figs, maps).

MOSELEY, Max 2004 Rediscovery of Pseudoparonella doveri (Collembola: Paranellidae) and notes on the Collembola of the Dark Cave (Gua Gelap), Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia. Cave and Karst Science, 31(2)79-82.

PLATNICK, N; SCHWENDINGER, P, & STEINER, H, 1997 Three new species of the spider genus Liphistius (Araneae, Mesothelae) from Malaysia. American Museum Novitates (New York), No 3209, 13pp. [Gua Kanthan & Tempurung]
PRICE, L, 1996 The cave racer - Elaphe taeniura. Malayan Naturalist 50(1)24-25.
PRICE, L, 1998. Two new species of cave dwelling trapdoor spiders in Malaysia. Caves & Caving, Autumn 1998, 81: 20, 2 phot. [Liphistius spp.]
PRICE, L, 1998. Two new cave dwelling Malaysian species of Liphistius. Cerberus, S.S. Jnl, Apr, 24, 3: 50.
PRICE, L, 1998. Cave fauna. The cave racer. International caver 22: 16-18.
PRICE, L, 1998. Collecting trapdoor spiders. Malaysian Naturalist 51, 3-4(June): 14-19. [Liphistius spp.]
PRICE, L, 1998. Malaysian Cave Bibliography (up to 1997). Bibliographical details of worldwide papers related to the caves and karst of Malaysia, 1800 references including cave fauna. To order a copy, email me.
PRICE, L, 1998. New species of cave spider. International Caver, 23: 41. [Liphistius spp.]
PRICE, L, 1999. Cave fauna of Mulu. Sarawak Gazette CXXVI (1539), June: 35-42, photos.
PRICE, L, 2002 Cave snakes caught with trousers down. MN, Dec, 56(2)8, (phot.). [cave racers mating, Dark Cave, Batu Caves]
PRICE, L, 2003 Cave racers. Bat meals dead or alive. MN, Dec, 57(2)32-33 (3 photos). [Dark Cave]
PRICE, L. 2003 Bats are our friends. Star WE, Feb 22, p18.
PRICE, L, 2004 An introduction to some cave fauna of Malaysia and Thailand. Acta Carsologica, 33(1)311-317.
PRICE, L, 2004 Cave racers do eat dead bats. Cerberus SS Jnl, Mar, 26(4)43-44. PRICE, L & STEINER, H, 1999 Periplaneta australasia (Blattidae), a new record for Dark Cave, Batu Caves. MNJ, 53(4)341-344, ( 1 plate).

ROTH, L. M. 1998 The cockroach genus Pycnoscelus scudder, with a description of Pycnoscelus femapterus sp.nov. (Blattaria: Blaberidae: Pycnoscelinae). Oriental Insects, 32:93-130. [Batu Caves]

SCHILTHUIZEN M, VERMEULEN J. J & DAVISON G. W. H, 1999. A note on the ecology of West Malaysian calcicolous snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Diplommatinidae, Cyclophoridae, Vertiginidae, Streptaxidae). Malayan Nature Journal Dec, 53, 4: 351-354.
SCHWENDINGER, P; GIRIBET, G & STEINER, H, 2004 A remarkable new cave-dwelling Stylocellus (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from peninsular Malaysia, with a discussion on taxonomic characters in the family Stylocellidae. Jnl of Natural History, 10 June 2004, 38:1421-1435, (30 fig, 1 tab.). [Lanno caves, mite harvestmen, insects, bats]
SEDGEWICK, Walter. C. & PLATNICK, N. I. (1986) On the male of Liphistius panching (Araneae, Mesothelae). MNJ 39: 203-206.
SHAHARIN YUSSOF 1988 Some invertebrates from Batu Caves. Nature Malaysiana, 13 (2)24-31.
SHAHARIN YUSSOF, 1997 The natural and other histories of Batu Caves book. MNS, i-ix, 1-55, & 46 plates. [general, flora, fauna, archaeology]
START, A, N. 1972 Some bats of Bako Nat. Park. SMJ 20(40/41)371-376.
START, A, N. 1972 Notes on Dyacopterus spadiceus from Sarawak. SMJ 20(40/41) 367-369. [bats]
STEINER H, 1998. Perak's very own trap door spiders. Malayan Naturalist 51, 3-4(June): 25-27. [Liphistius spp.]
STEINER H, 1998. Lebende fossilien aus den hohlen Malaysia. Mitteilungen des Verbandes der deutschen Hohlen - und Karst forscher, Munchen, 44, 4: 148-150. [Liphsitius spp.]
STEINER, H 2005 Orthriophis taeniurus (COPE, 1860). Expedition Gunung Lanno. Book, p164-5.
STEINER, H & PRICE, L 2004 Scuttling ‘scutigera decipiens’. MN, 58(1)6-9, (photos). [Thereupoda longicornis has replaced the name Scutigera decipiens]

TAN K.H, ZUBAID AKBAR & KUNZ T. H, 1999. Roost selection and social organisation in Cynopterus horsfieldi (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae). Malayan Nature Journal 53, 4: 295-298, 3 plates.

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