Agamid lizards (Agamidae, Acrodonta, Sauria, Reptilia) of Vietnam

Abstract

Being a hotspot of plant and animal diversity and endemism, Vietnam is important for the conservation of biodiversity on a global scale. It is one of the most threatened areas in tropical Asia in terms of destruction of tropical rain forest as an environment with a unique Vietnamese fauna. Previous summaries on Vietnamese agamids, their taxonomy and distribution were published in the works of Bourret 1943, Nguyen & Ho 1996, Bobrov 1995, Ziegler 2002and Ziegler et al. 2006. New, intensive study of the fauna of Vietnam as well as new opportunities offered by molecular methods make clear that taxonomic diversity in Southeast Asia is underestimated. The aim of this paper is to show and review the taxonomic diversity of different evolutionary lineages of agamids and their geographical distribution. This is based on new results of the authors and most recent evaluation of literature sources.

Morphological and molecular genetic diversity of Strongyluris calotis (Nematoda: Ascaridida: Heterakidae) in South East and East Asian lizards

“…The Vietnam false bloodsucker, P. brevipes, has a limited distribution in the Tonkin region of northern Vietnam and Guangxi region of southern China, adjacent to Vietnam (Ananjeva et al 2007;Nguyen et al 2009). This agamid lizard is found on trees or bushes in tropical mountain forests, generally at an altitude of more than 1000 m above sea level.…”

“…This agamid lizard is found on trees or bushes in tropical mountain forests, generally at an altitude of more than 1000 m above sea level. In (Ananjeva et al 2007;Hallermann et al 2010). All these agamid lizards of the genus Pseudocalotes are rare, with most of them known from only a few specimens (Ananjeva et al 2007;Hallermann et al 2010).…”

“…In (Ananjeva et al 2007;Hallermann et al 2010). All these agamid lizards of the genus Pseudocalotes are rare, with most of them known from only a few specimens (Ananjeva et al 2007;Hallermann et al 2010). Consequently, to date, very few of their helminth faunas have been investigated.…”

Patterns of Variation in the Cranial Osteology of Three Species of Endemic Australian Lizards (Ctenophorus: Squamata: Agamidae): Implications for the Fossil Record and Morphological Analyses made with Limited Sample Sizes

“…We selected morphological features from previously published studies that included Australian Agamidae and also the unpublished work by Moody (1980). We include his thesis because it is the primary source for the collected data and is referenced many times in the literature for phylogenetic analyses (e.g., Borsuk-Białynicka and Moody, 1984;Estes et al, 1988;Gauthier et al, 1988;Greer, 1989a) as well as comparative genetic studies (Melville et al, 2001;Lee, 2005;Smith et al, 2011;Gauthier et al, 2012), fossil analyses (Evans et al, 2002;Blain et al, 2014), morphologic studies (Hocknull, 2002;Stuart-Fox and Owens, 2003;Ord and Stuart-Fox, 2006;Ananjeva et al, 2007), species descriptions (Bell et al, 2009;Ananjeva et al, 2011), and phylogeographic analyses (Hugall and Lee, 2004;Hugall et al, 2008;Wagner et al, 2011). Features from different sources were combined if they described alternative states of the same anatomical system.…”

沙巴攀蜥再发现––记中国新纪录

“…The border between southern China and northern Vietnam has posed problems for studies of amphibian and reptile diversity. Historically, biodiversity research on the herpetofauna across this region has been conducted independently in China and Vietnam, with interpretation of research often slowed by language barriers and lack of regional collaboration ( Ananjeva et al, 2007 ; Bain et al, 2009 ; Yang & Rao, 2008 ; Zhao et al, 1999 ). However, despite the similar habitat structures across this region, and evidence of continuous distributions for ecologically similar species of frogs and lizards ( Bain et al, 2009 ; Ota, 2000 ), much of the herpetofauna is still thought to be endemic to one side of the political border or the other.…”