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

By

Nguyen, Quang Truong
Pham, Anh
Le, Dzung
Nguyen, Son
Ziegler, Thomas, 1970-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-02-05

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

3

Pages

1--21

Subjects

Dien Bien Province , new records , Scincidae , Skinks , Son La Province. , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4284
eLocator: e4284

 

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.