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.