New provincial records of skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) from northwestern Vietnam

Abstract. We report six new records of skinks from northwestern Vietnam: Eutropis macularius, Scincella devorator, S. monticola, S. ochracea, Sphenomorphus cryptotis and S. indicus. Our new findings increase the species number of skinks (Scincidae) to nine in Dien Bien Province and to 14 in Son La P...

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Autores principales: Pham, Anh Van, Le, Dzung Trung, Nguyen, Son Lan Hung, Ziegler, Thomas, Nguyen, Truong Quang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25698899
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4284
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Sumario:Abstract. We report six new records of skinks from northwestern Vietnam: Eutropis macularius, Scincella devorator, S. monticola, S. ochracea, Sphenomorphus cryptotis and S. indicus. Our new findings increase the species number of skinks (Scincidae) to nine in Dien Bien Province and to 14 in Son La Province. We also provide additional natural history data of aforementioned species.

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