Plestiodon jinjiang WANG, XU, LEE, LU & CHE, 2026
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Plestiodon jinjiang
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Plestiodon jinjiang WANG, XU, LEE, LU & CHE in WANG et al. 2026: 279 |
| Distribution | China (Yunnan) Type locality: Jinsha River Valley near Daju Village, Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China (E 100.201 91o, N 27.291 22o, elevation 1899 m a.s.l., GCJ02 |
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| Types | Holotype: KIZ 57453, adult male. Collected by Kai Wang, Zhuo-Yu Lu, Xian-Kun Huang, and Xiang-Jin Liu on 21 May, 2024. Paratypes:KIZ 57454, adult female sharing the same collecting information as the holotype. KIZ 58484–58486, 58492–58494, adult males; KIZ 58483, 58487–58490, adult females, all from the same locality as the holotype, collected by Xiang-Jin Liu on 20 July 2024. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis:The new species can be diagnosed from congeners by a combination of the following characteristics: (1) small sized, SVL 59.7–86.6mm in adults; (2) nuchals mostly two pairs, rarely single or three pairs; (3) postmental mostly two, rarely single; (4) vertebral scales not much wider than neighboring dorsals; (5) scales on posterolateral thighs distinctively heterogeneous in size and arrangement; (6) posterior temporals both triangular shaped; (7) no enlarged, keeled scales posterolateral of cloaca; (8) scale rows around midbody 26–28; (9) paravertebral dorsal scale count 61–71; (10) ventral scale count 64–73; (11) adults blackish brown dorsally, with five offwhite colored dorsolateral stripes; (12) entire tail of juveniles blue, such color retaining in adult males but fading away in adult females. (Wang et al. 2026) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about about 2.85 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
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| Etymology | Named after Chinese 金 江, the abbreviated Chinese name of the upper Yangtze River and it means “golden-river”, hence named after its distribution along the upper Jinsha River in Yunnan and possibly Sichuan Province. This epithet is treated as a noun in apposition. |
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