CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates

Ian J. Mason graduated from Burnley Horticultural College, Australia, in 1971 with a Diploma in Horticultural Science. In the early 1970s and again in the early 80s, he owned and operated small retail/wholesale nurseries. Since 1979, he has been principal of the Australian Correspondence Schools, an international distance education college offering more than 140 different horticultural courses, and with students spread across more than 50 countries. He is an active member of both the Queensland Nursery Industry Association and the International Plant Propagators Society, and for 5 years was a national board member of the latter. He is a fellow of the Institute of Horticulture (UK) and Parks and Leisure.

- General Information; Rationale; How to use this list; Limitations and their criteria; Acknowledgments; Closing date; Sources of information; - Amphibians; Regular components of Australia's fauna; Introductions of native species in Australia and its territories; - Reptiles; Regular components of Australia's fauna; - Birds; Regular components of Australia's fauna; Vagrants and accidental visitors that have been recorded in Australia, its territories and territorial waters; Introductions of native species in Australia and its territories; Introductions of foreign species now extinct in Australia, its territories and territorial waters; - Mammals; Regular components of Australia's fauna; Vagrants and accidental visitors that have been recorded in Australia, its territories and territorial waters; Introductions of foreign species now extinct in Australia, its territories and territorial waters; Appendix to Newly Described Taxa Since First Edition; Index to Common Names; Index to Scientific Names.