GULF OF GUINEA ISLANDS' BIODIVERSITY
NETWORK
BIBLIOGRAFÍA DE FAUNA DE GUINEA ECUATORIAL (1831-2000), Manuales Técnicos de Museología Volumen No. 12 , Museo Nacional de Ciencias naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 2001. 121 pp.
JAIME PÉREZ DEL VAL
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Email: J.Perez@orgc.csic.es
REVIEW
This Bibliography of the Fauna of Equatorial Guinea compiled by Jaime Pérez del Val of the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences is the latest publication resulting from Spanish biological cooperation with its ex-colony Equatorial Guinea. The bibliography lists all published works on the fauna of Equatorial Guinea since J. E. Gray's first work on freshwater molluscs in 1831 described species from the then British possession of Fernando Po. The listed works cover Equatorial Guinea's three very different regions - continental Rio Muni, the continental island of Bioko (formerly Fernando Po) and the isolated oceanic island of Annobon. By default many of the works describing species from Annobon, and to a lesser extent Bioko, also included species from the formerly Portuguese possessions of São Tomé e Príncipe. Thus this bibliography complements the previously published bibliographies of the fauna of Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobon by A. Gascoigne (Arquipélago - Bulletin of the University of the Azores Life and Marine Sciences 1993 11A: 91-105 and 1996 14A: 95-103) to provide a comprehensive research source on the fauna of the Gulf of Guinea islands.