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A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, China

  • 1. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China. & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China. & snakeboy@sinoophis.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6390-5251
  • 2. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China. & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China. & Shanghai Collaborative Innovation for Aquatic Animal Genetics and Breeding, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China. & christina_huang@sinoophis.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-3835
  • 3. Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China & jiangke@cib.ac.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3395-7362
  • 4. Department of Herpetology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York NY 10024, USA. fburbrink@amnh.org; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6687-8332
  • 5. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China. & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China. & 1924992718@qq.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0222-2366
  • 6. Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. & tianqi.huang@rutgers.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5341-6419
  • 7. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China. & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China. & snakeman@ahnu.edu.cn; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6786-8523

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Yang, Dian-Cheng, Huang, Ru-Yi, Jiang, Ke, Burbrink, Frank T., Yu, Yan-An Gong Jing, Zhang, Yi, Huang, Tian-Qi, Huang, Song (2022): A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, China. Zootaxa 5190 (1): 127-140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.1.5

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