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Tropidophorus boehmei

Description

Tropidophorus boehmei NGUYEN Q.T., NGUYEN T.T., SCHMITZ, ORLOV et ZIEGLER (2010: 57)

Paratype: ZISP 2 5745, adult female, “in the forest of Hoang Lien Mountain, near Na Nheo (21°59' N, 104°20' E), Khanh Yen Ha Commune, Van Ban District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, at an altitude of 1000 m a.s.l. ” Leg.: N. L. Orlov, 6.V. 2004.

Remarks: Holotype (VNMN 822), adult male, from “the forest of Hoang Lien Mountain, near Ban Khoang (22°24' N, 103°47' E), Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam, at an altitude of 1200–1300 m a.s.l. ”. Additional paratypes is IEBR A.0922 (adult male), IEBR A.0923 (adult female), VNMN 820 (adult female), VNMN 909 (adult male), MHNG 2721.49 (adult male), ZFMK 89136 (adult male), ZFMK 89137 (adult female), with the same locality data as the holotype; and VNUH S.162 (Bourret’s collection in Hanoi), collected from “Chapa, Tonkin” (now Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province, northern Vietnam) (Nguyen et al. 2010).

Notes

Published as part of Barabanov, Andrei & Milto, Konstantin, 2017, An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae), pp. 65-78 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/400438

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
VNMN, IEBR , VNUH , ZFMK , ZISP
Event date
2004-05-06
Family
Scincidae
Genus
Tropidophorus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
VNMN 822 , ZFMK 89137 , ZISP 2
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Species
boehmei
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2004-05-06

References

  • Nguyen, Q. T., Nguyen, T. T., Schmitz, A., Orlov, N. & Ziegler, T. (2010) A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Dumeril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa, 2439, 53 - 68.
  • Darevsky, I. S., Orlov, N. L. & Ho, T. C. (2004) Two new lygosomine skinks of the genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Sauria, Scincidae) from northern Vietnam. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 11 (2), 111 - 120.