{"id":1240,"date":"2018-07-06T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservationpulse.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2021-03-05T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:39:44","slug":"2018-07-new-skink-of-genus-sphenomorphus-southern-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-07-new-skink-of-genus-sphenomorphus-southern-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"A new skink of the genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843  described from southern Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new forest skink of the genus\u00a0Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) has recently been described from the high elevation forest of Mount Hon Ba, Khanh Hoa Province, eastern of Langbian Plateau of southern Vietnam. The new member of the genus Sphenomorphus, Yersin&#8217;s Forest Skink, <em>S. yersini<\/em> is described based on morphological characters of four specimens and a fragment of 653 nucleotides of the gene COI. The new species most resembles S. buenluoicus occurring in Kon Tum-Gia Lai Plateau in morphological features but both species\u00a0can be distinguish from each other by tail length ratio (longer in the new species), ventral scale row (much higher in the new species), and hemipenis shape. This new species is named in honor of the famous physician and bacteriologist, Alexandre Yersin (1863\u20131943), who discovered the bacterium responsible for bubonic plague. Mount Hon Ba associates with the name of Alexandre Yersin who built a research station on the top of the mountain and worked there.<\/p>\n<p>This is a study participated by Nguyen Thanh Luan, a scientific officer of Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC), in cooperation with other Vietnamese colleague from the Institute of Tropical Biology (Ho Chi Minh City) and international researchers from Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) and Royal Ontario Museum (Canada).<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this species on Zootaxa at <a href=\"https:\/\/biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/article\/view\/zootaxa.4438.2.6\">https:\/\/biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/article\/view\/zootaxa.4438.2.6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Press release by: Nguyen Thanh Luan \u2013 ATP\/IMC<br \/>\n6th July 2018<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photo gallery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1240 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-07-new-skink-of-genus-sphenomorphus-southern-vietnam\/micro-habitat-in-hon-ba-nr-nguyen-thanh-luan\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D&#39;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#39;%20width=&#39;150&#39;%20height=&#39;150&#39;%20viewBox%3D&#39;0%200%20150%20150&#39;%2F%3E\" data-czlz data-src=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/micro-habitat-in-Hon-Ba-NR-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1357\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/micro-habitat-in-Hon-Ba-NR-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/micro-habitat-in-Hon-Ba-NR-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/micro-habitat-in-Hon-Ba-NR-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1357'>\n\t\t\t\tA micro-habitat of the new species in Hon Ba Nature Reserves, Khanh Hoa Province\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-07-new-skink-of-genus-sphenomorphus-southern-vietnam\/spenophorphus-yersini-female-nguyen-thanh-luan\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D&#39;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#39;%20width=&#39;150&#39;%20height=&#39;150&#39;%20viewBox%3D&#39;0%200%20150%20150&#39;%2F%3E\" data-czlz data-src=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Spenophorphus-yersini-female-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1358\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Spenophorphus-yersini-female-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Spenophorphus-yersini-female-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Spenophorphus-yersini-female-Nguyen-Thanh-Luan-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1358'>\n\t\t\t\tFemale of Sphenomorphus yersini. Photo by: Nguyen Thanh Luan \u2013 ATP\/IMC\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-07-new-skink-of-genus-sphenomorphus-southern-vietnam\/sphenomorphus-buenluoicus_male_sang-nguyen\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D&#39;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#39;%20width=&#39;150&#39;%20height=&#39;150&#39;%20viewBox%3D&#39;0%200%20150%20150&#39;%2F%3E\" data-czlz data-src=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sphenomorphus-buenluoicus_male_Sang-Nguyen-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1359\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sphenomorphus-buenluoicus_male_Sang-Nguyen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sphenomorphus-buenluoicus_male_Sang-Nguyen-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sphenomorphus-buenluoicus_male_Sang-Nguyen-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1359'>\n\t\t\t\tMale of Sphenomorphus buenluoicus from its type locality, Gia Lai Province, Kon Tum-Gia Lai Plateau. Photo by: Sang Nguyen (ITBCZ)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new forest skink of the genus\u00a0Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) has recently been described from the high elevation forest of &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-07-new-skink-of-genus-sphenomorphus-southern-vietnam\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,357,353],"tags":[56,139,138,136,140],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-news","category-conservation-news","category-imc-news","tag-new-species","tag-yersins-forest-skink","tag-genus-spehnomorphus","tag-sphenomorphus","tag-sphenomorphus-yersini"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","vi","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"vi":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}