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Thứ Tư, 23 tháng 7, 2014

Acanthosaura nataliae ORLOV, TRUONG & SANG, 2006

This species was described by Nikolai L. Orlov et al,. in 2005. 
A new agamid species from central Vietnam and Southern Laos is described. It is distinguished from A. armata, A. coronata, A. crucigera, and A. lepidogaster by lacking a spine on the occiput between the tympanum and nuchal crest. The new species differs from coronata and lepidogaster by having a large crest and from armata, crucigera, and lepidogaster by lacking a dark marking on the nape. It most closely resembles A. capra, but differs from it by having large keeled scales intermixed with small scales on the lateral and dorsal surface of body (scales relatively uniform incapra). Strong difference in coloration in live of adult males and females of compared species of genus Acanthosaura are described. [1]
In Bach Ma NP, I collected a specimen of this species at Tri Sao stream area (about 500m a.s.l) and a specimen at Do Quen stream area (about 1.450 m a.s.l). This species also common in Ba Na - Nui Chua Nature reserve.

 
Acanthosaura nataliae in Bach Ma National Park, Photographed by Luan Nguyen Thanh


Acanthosaura nataliae at Ba Na - Nui Chua NR, Photographed by Luan Nguyen Thanh
Literature cited 
1.        Orlov N. L., Truong Q.N., Sang V.N., 2005. A new Acanthosaura allied to A. capra Gunther, 1861 from central Vietnam and Southern Laos. Vol. 13 (1): 61 – 76.

Aguidae of Vietnam

Follow Uetz. 2014 and Nguyen et al,. 2009. One genus and five species of family Aguidae  were found in Vietnam. See list bellow:
  1. Dopasia gracilis (GRAY, 1845)
  2. Dopasia harti (BOULENGER, 1899)
  3. Dopasia ludovici (MOCQUARD, 1905)
  4. Dopasia sokolovi (DAREVSKY & NGUYEN-VAN-SANG, 1983
  5. Dopasia hainanensis (Yang, 1983)
 Before 2011, the genus Ophisaurus was used for four species of Vietnam and some other species of East and Southeast Asian anguid species. After that, Nguyen et al, 2011 was fist record Ophisaurus hainanensis at Vietnam also used the generic name Dopasia for the Indochina subregion anguid species. [Nguyen et al,.2011]

Literature cited
Nguyen, V.S., Ho, T.C. & Nguyen, Q.T. (2009) Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 768 pp.
Nguyen, Q.T., Bome, W., Tao, T.N., Quyet. K.L., Pahl. K.R.,  Haus. T., Ziegler. T., (2011) Review of the genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 (Squamata: Anguidae) in the Indochina subregion. Zootaxa2894: 58–68

Uetz, P. (2014) The Reptile Database, http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz, accessed in July, 2014.


Agamidae of Vietnam

 List species of the family Agamidae of Vietnam

  1. Acanthosaura capra GÜNTHER, 1861
  2. Acanthosaura cardamomensis WOOD, GRISMER, GRISMER, NEANG, CHAV & HOLDEN, 2010
  3. Acanthosaura coronata GÜNTHER, 1861
  4. Acanthosaura lepidogaster (CUVIER, 1829)
  5. Acanthosaura nataliae ORLOV, TRUONG & SANG, 2006
  6. Bronchocela orlovi HALLERMANN, 2004
  7. Bronchocela smaragdina GÜNTHER, 1864
  8. Bronchocela vietnamensis HALLERMANN & ORLOV, 2005
  9. Calotes bachae HARTMANN, GEISSLER, POYARKOV, IHLOW, GALOYAN, RÖDDER & BÖHME, 2013
  10. Calotes emma GRAY, 1845
  11. Calotes mystaceus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1837
  12. Calotes versicolor (DAUDIN, 1802)
  13. Draco blanfordii BLANFORD, 1878
  14. Draco indochinensis SMITH, 1928
  15. Draco maculatus (GRAY, 1845)
  16. Draco taeniopterus GÜNTHER, 1861
  17. Draco volans LINNAEUS, 1758
  18. Gonocephalus grandis (GRAY, 1845)
  19. Japalura chapaensis BOURRET, 1937
  20. Japalura fasciata MERTENS, 1926
  21. Leiolepis belliana (HARDWICKE & GRAY, 1827)
  22. Leiolepis guentherpetersi DAREVSKY & KUPRIYANOVA, 1993
  23. Leiolepis guttata CUVIER, 1829
  24. Leiolepis ngovantrii GRISMER & GRISMER, 2010
  25. Leiolepis reevesii (GRAY, 1831)
  26. Leiolepis rubritaeniata MERTENS, 1961
  27. Physignathus cocincinus CUVIER, 1829
  28. Pseudocalotes brevipes (WERNER, 1904)
  29. Pseudocalotes floweri (BOULENGER, 1912)
  30. Pseudocalotes microlepis (BOULENGER, 1888)
  31. Pseudocalotes ziegleri HALLERMANN, TRUONG, ORLOV & ANANJEVA, 2010
  32. Pseudocophotis kontumensis ANANJEVA, ORLOV, TRUONG & NAZAROV, 2007
Literature cited
Nguyen, V.S., Ho, T.C. & Nguyen, Q.T. (2009) Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 768 pp.
Uetz, P. (2014) The Reptile Database, http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz, accessed in July, 2014.