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A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Nanning, Guangxi, 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 & School of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China & Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China & yuhao_xu@sinoophis.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6094-6680
  • 3. Guangxi Nanning Photography Player Culture Communication Co., Ltd, Nanning 530021, China & wjxwcl@hotmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1474-3820
  • 4. 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 & yan_an_gong@sinoophis.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8155-7024
  • 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 & Engineering Research Center of Environmental DNA and Ecological Water Health Assessment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China & christina_huang@sinoophis.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-3835
  • 6. Guangxi Nanning Photography Player Culture Communication Co., Ltd, Nanning 530021, China & 2962079436@qq.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2331-3280
  • 7. Nanning Qingxiu Shan Tourist Attraction, Nanning 530000, China & 498381619@qq.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4030-9868
  • 8. 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
  • 9. 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, Xu, Yu-Hao, Wu, Jia-Xiang, Gong, Yan-An, Huang, Ru-Yi, Xiang, Jun, Feng, Zheng-Lian, Huang, Tian-Qi, Huang, Song (2023): A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Nanning, Guangxi, China. Zootaxa 5319 (3): 389-402, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.3.5, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5319.3.5

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