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Two new species and a new country record of the genus Achalinus (Reptilia Squamata: Xenodermidae) from China

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  • 1. Kunming College of Life Science, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Yunnan 650204, China houshaobing@126.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7264-2411 & Authors contributed equally to this work
  • 2. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History & Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman 73072, USA kai.wang-2@ou.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6736-3346 & Authors contributed equally to this work
  • 3. Faculty of Agriculture, Forest and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin 644007, China
  • 4. College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, 241000, China
  • 5. Key Laboratory for Conserving Wildlife with Small Populations in Yunnan, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, Yunnan, China. yuanzhiyongkiz@126.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5991-3021
  • 6. chej@mail.kiz.ac.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-6514

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Hou, Shao-Bing, Wang, Kai, Guo, Peng, Chen, Jin-Min, Yuan, Zhi-Yong, Che, Jing (2021): Two new species and a new country record of the genus Achalinus (Reptilia Squamata: Xenodermidae) from China. Zootaxa 4950 (3): 528-546, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.3.6

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