Review of the Genus Sinonatrix in Vietnam with a New Country Record of Sinonatrix yunnanensis Rao et Yang, 1998

Dzung Trung Le, Anh Van Pham, Cuong The Pham, Son Lan Hung Nguyen, Thomas Ziegler, Truong Quang Nguyen

Abstract


We present a review of Sinonatrix with novel morphological data on the basis of new collections of snakes from northern and central Vietnam. We also record an additional species to the herpetofauna of Vietnam, Sinonatrix yunnanensis, a species previously known only from southern China and northern Thailand.

Keywords


Sinonatrix; first country record; morphology; taxonomy; Vietnam

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2015-22-2-84-88

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