New country records of reptiles from Laos

By

Luu, Vinh
Nguyen, Quang Truong
Calame, Thomas
Hoang, Tuoi
Southichack, Sisomphone
Bonkowski, Michael
Ziegler, Thomas, 1970-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013-12-10

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

1

Pages

1--14

Subjects

Colubridae , Distribution , Gekkonidae , Khammouane Province , Salavan Province , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1015
eLocator: e1015

 

Abstract

Four species of reptiles, of which one is represented by one of its subspecies, are recorded for the first time from Laos: Cyrtodactylus phongnhakebangensis, Lycodon futsingensis, and L. ruhstrati, as L. ruhstrati abditus, from limestone forests in Khammouane Province and Cyrtodactylus pseudoquadrivirgatus from hill evergreen forest in Salavan Province. These discoveries of lizards and snakes bring the total species number of reptiles to 189 in Laos.