South Australian Museum Herpetology Collection

Over 70,000 specimens have been registered in this collection, which has a particular emphasis on South Australian and arid zone fauna. A second major regional focus is Melanesia, especially the island of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Papua Province, Indonesia), with some 6,000 registered specimens. Most material is formalin-fixed and stored in 70% alcohol, with tadpoles stored in formalin. There is a significant dry skeletal collection of over 1,500 specimens, mostly skulls, and this will continue to be expanded. Since 1980, the great majority of specimens acquired (approx. 40,000) have had tissue samples (mostly liver) taken for genetic and biochemical research. These are held in the S.A. Museum's Australian Biological Tissue Collection.

本馆藏已登记标本逾70000号，馆藏重点聚焦南澳大利亚州及干旱带动物区系。第二大核心区域馆藏重点为美拉尼西亚，尤其聚焦新几内亚岛（巴布亚新几内亚及印度尼西亚巴布亚省），相关登记标本约6000号。绝大多数标本经福尔马林固定后，保存于70%乙醇溶液中；蝌蚪标本则直接以福尔马林溶液保存。馆藏另有规模可观的干制骨骼标本逾1500号，其中以头骨为主，且该馆藏仍将持续扩充。自1980年起，馆藏新增的绝大多数标本（约40000号）均已提取组织样本（多为肝脏组织），用于遗传学与生物化学研究。上述组织样本均保存于南澳大利亚博物馆（South Australian Museum，S.A. Museum）的澳大利亚生物组织馆藏库中。