Thirty years ago, veteran zoologist Johnson Chen wrote in the preface to his Synopsis of the Vertebrates of Taiwan, Taiwan's first comprehensive vertebrate species catalogue: "Fishes aside, it is extremely rare for new species to be recorded in one of the other four classes of vertebrates--the mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds."
三十年前，動物界前輩陳兼善編纂的台灣第一套《脊椎動物志》序文中說道：「除魚類外，其他哺乳、爬蟲、兩棲、鳥類等四綱，欲有新記錄出現，殆為絕無僅有之事。」