A New Species of Acanthosaura (Agamidae, Sauria) from Northwest Vietnam
2011; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.30906/1026-2296-2011-18-3-195-202
ISSN2713-1467
AutoresNatalia B. Ananjeva, Nikolai L. Orlov, Thien Tao Nguyen, Sergey A. Ryabov,
Tópico(s)Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
ResumoA new species of Acanthosaura (Gray, 1831) from Fan Si Pan Mount, Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam is described based on having a unique combinations of morphometric and meristic external characters and very distinctive color pattern. Acanthosaura brachypoda sp.nov. from Fan Si Pan Mount, northwest Vietnam most closely resembles A.lepidogaster but differs from it by larger body length, shorter limbs, lower number of ventral scales, larger scales on the head and spotted color pattern on the brown background. It is the 10 th known species of genus Acanthosaura in Southeast Asia and 5 th species of this genus in Vietnam.
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