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| Subdoluseps vietnamensis Le, Nguyen, Phan, Rujirawan, Aowphol, Vo, Murphy & Nguyen, 2021 |
Abstract
We describe a new species of the genus Subdoluseps Freitas, Datta-Roy, Karanth, Grismer & Siler from a coastal area in southern Vietnam. Subdoluseps vietnamensis sp. nov. is characterized by the following morphological characters: medium size in adults (snout-vent length up to 48.7 mm); tail length/snout-vent length ratio 1.04; toes not reaching finger when limbs adpressed; 27–30 midbody scale rows, smooth; 55–57 paravertebral scales; 55–62 ventral scale rows; 64–74 subcaudal scales; frontoparietal scale single; four supraoculars; prefrontals not in contact with one another; two loreal scales; seven supralabials; ear-opening with two lobules on the anterior border; smooth lamellae beneath finger III 9 or 10 and toe IV 12–15; six enlarged precloacal scales; and four distinct black stripes on dorsum. The new species differs genetically from its closest congeners, S. bowringii (Günther) and S. frontoparietale (Taylor), by uncorrected p-distances of 10.0% and 9.5%, respectively in ND1 sequences, and clusters into the same matriline with these two congeners on the phylogenetic trees.
Keywords: Reptilia, Coastal area, Lygosoma, Subdoluseps bowringii, Subdeloseps frontoparietale
Manh Van Le, Vu Dang Hoang Nguyen, Hoa Thi Phan, Attapol Rujirawan, Anchalee Aowphol, Thi-Dieu-Hien Vo, Robert W. Murphy and Sang Ngoc Nguyen. 2021. A New Skink of the Genus Subdoluseps Freitas, Datta-Roy, Karanth, Grismer & Siler, 2019 (Squamata: Scincidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa. 495(2); DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4952.2.3
theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/may/23/species-discovered-greater-mekong-region-in-pictures
Researchgate.net/publication/350770198_A_new_skink_of_the_genus_Subdoluseps_from_southern_Vietnam
