Research of Tropical Asian Animal Types in European Museums

从1998年10月到1999年11月，我们参观了欧洲几个主要的自然历史博物馆。我们此次访问的目的是实地考察这些博物馆中保存的两栖类、爬行类、昆虫等小动物的模式标本，以确定我们过去20年来在东南亚地区通过实地调查获得的许多小动物标本的鉴定。因此，我们可以检查大量的模式标本和更多的非典型标本，以供参考。所得数据不仅对我们自己，而且对所有这些领域的科学家来说，对现在和将来的分类学研究都是非常有用的。当这些地区的生物多样性受到越来越多的关注，正确的物种识别的重要性正在迅速增加时，这种尝试现在将特别重要。

From October 1998 to November 1999, we visited several major natural history museums in Europe. Our purpose of visits is to actually examine type specimens of small animals, such as amphibians, reptiles and insects, stored in these museums so as to ascertain our identification of many specimens of small animals obtained through our field surveys in Southeast Asian regions in the past 20 years. As a result, we could examine a lot of type specimens and many more non-typic specimens for reference. Resultant data will be very useful for the present and future taxonomic studies for not only for ourselves but also for all scientists of these fields. This attempt would be now particularly significant when biodiversity of these regions are attaining greater concern and importance of correct species identification is rapidly increasing.