Plestiodon tamdaoensis ( Bourret, 1937 )
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Plestiodon tamdaoensis ( Bourret, 1937 ) |
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Plestiodon tamdaoensis ( Bourret, 1937) View in CoL
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JJLR 01684 ; individualCount: 1; sex: juvenin; occurrenceID: CFDA4CA4-7F40-5DA9-90A9-F3144F82C801; Taxon: scientificNameID: Plestiodon tamdaoensis ; scientificName: Plestiodon tamdaoensis ; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Scincidae ; genus: Plestiodon ; specificEpithet: tamdaoensis ; scientificNameAuthorship: ( Bourret, 1937); Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Thanh Hoa; county: Thanh Hoa; municipality: Ba Thuoc; locality: Near Thanh Lam Commune ; verbatimElevation: 1385; verbatimLatitude: 20°27'25.95"N; verbatimLongitude: 105 ° 610.69 " E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: July; eventTime: 2023; eventRemarks: collected by V. Q. Dau; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Reptilia; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Description
Morphological characters of the specimen from Thanh Hoa Province agreed well with the descriptions of Bourret (1937), Hikida et al. (2001) and Hecht et al. (2013): SVL 38.5 mm; TaL 38.6 mm (n = 1, subadult). Supranasals large, in contact with each other; postnasal single; postmentals 2; prefrontals in contact with each other; 3 / 3 loreals; lower eyelid scaly; 4 / 4 supraoculars; 8 / 8 supraciliaries; frontoparietals in contact with each other; interparietal larger than frontoparietals; parietals separated; nuchals in 3 pairs; 8 / 8 supralabials; 7 / 7 infralabials; tympanum deeply sunk, with 3 / 3 small lobules on the anterior edge; dorsal scales smooth; mid-body scales in 24 rows; paravertebral scales 43; 52 transverse rows of ventrals, smooth; precloacals two, enlarged; fingers and toes meeting when adpressed; subdigital lamellae under fourth finger 14 / 14 and 19 / 19 under fourth toe.
Colouration in preservative. Dorsal surface of head, body and tail brown with two cream stripes on head and three cream stripes on body; lateral band black-brown; ventral surface light brown (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ).
Distribution
In Vietnam, this species has been recorded from Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Vinh Phuc, Bac Giang, Hai Duong, Son La, Hoa Binh and Nghe An Provinces ( Nguyen et al. 2009, Uetz et al. 2024). Elsewhere, the species is known from China ( Uetz et al. 2024).
Type locality: Tamdao, Vinh Phuc Province, Vietnam ( Uetz et al. 2024).
Ecology
The specimen was found at 10: 00 h on the ground. The surrounding habitat was bamboo forest and shrub.
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