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 Lycodon ruhstrati, as Lycodon 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.
Highlights
The knowledge on the diversity of the reptile fauna of Laos has strikingly increased during the recent decades. Stuart (1999) provided the first checklist of 109 reptile species from Laos. Teynié et al (2004) published an updated checklist of reptiles from southern Laos with a total of 89 recorgnized species
Voucher specimens are deposited in the collections of the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), Hanoi, Vietnam; the National University of Laos (NUOL), Vientiane, Laos; the Vietnam Forestry University (VFU), Hanoi, Vietnam; and the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany
The recent discoveries of Cyrtodactylus phongnhakebangensis and C. pseudoquadrivirgatus in Laos bring the species number of the genus Cyrtodactylus known from that country to ten
Summary
The knowledge on the diversity of the reptile fauna of Laos has strikingly increased during the recent decades. Stuart (1999) provided the first checklist of 109 reptile species from Laos. Teynié et al (2004) published an updated checklist of reptiles from southern Laos with a total of 89 recorgnized species. Stuart (1999) provided the first checklist of 109 reptile species from Laos. Teynié et al (2004) published an updated checklist of reptiles from southern Laos with a total of 89 recorgnized species. The species number of reptiles from Laos was 180 in 2010 (Teynié and David 2010). Since 2010, six new species of reptiles have been described from Laos comprising Cyrtodactylus wayakonei Nguyen, Kingsada, Rösler, Auer & Ziegler, 2010, C. lomyenensis Ngo & Pauwels, 2010, C. teyniei David, Nguyen, Schneider & Ziegler, 2011, C. pageli Schneider, Nguyen, Schmitz, Kingsada, Auer & Ziegler, 2011, Lycodon davidi Vogel, Nguyen, Kingsada & Ziegler, 2012, and Oligodon nagao David, Nguyen, Nguyen, Jiang, Chen, Teynié & Ziegler, 2012 (Nguyen et al 2010, Ngo and Pauwels 2010, David et al 2011, Schneider et al 2011, Vogel et al 2012, David et al 2012). We report four new records of reptiles from the country, comprising two species of Gekkonidae, and one species and one subspecies of Colubridae
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