New discoveries of amphibians and reptiles from Vietnam

摘要

We provide a list of 21 new amphibian and reptilian species and subspecies discoveries from Vietnam, including one new snake genus, published after the comprehensive overview by Nguyen et al. (2009). The new herpetofauna representatives are introducedinclusive of the original description, type locality, English and Vietnamese names, as well as current distribution. Although Vietnam has one of the world's richest amphibian and reptilian fauna, as revealed particularly through surveys by Vietnamese scientists and their international collaborators during the past quarter century, the study of its herpetofauna was long overshadowed by research in India, China, and the East Indies (Adler 2009). The first significant summary of the Vietnamese herpetofauna was written by Morice (1875), in which 13 amphibians and 114 species of reptiles including the marine species were listed.