Dibamus annae KLIUKIN, NGUYEN, PAWANGKHANANT, PHAM, LE, GORIN, BOS, KRONE & POYARKOV, 2025
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Dibamus annae
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| Higher Taxa | Dibamidae, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Anna’s Blind Skink Vietnamese: Thằn lằn giun An-na |
| Synonym | Dibamus annae KLIUKIN, NGUYEN, PAWANGKHANANT, PHAM, LE, GORIN, BOS, KRONE & POYARKOV 2025: 18 |
| Distribution | C Vietnam (Gia Lai) Type locality: Kon Ka Kinh National Park, Gia Lai Province, central Vietnam (N 14.20418°, E 108.31532°; elevation 873 m asl.) |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. ZMMu re-15720, adult male, field tag aBV-1519) collected on June 01, 2017, by a. B. Vassilieva. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Dibamus annae sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of morphological characters: (1) maximum SVl of 92.7 mm; (2) tail comparatively long, tl comprising 18.9% of SVl in a single male; (3) labial and nasal sutures present and complete, rostral suture present and incomplete; (4) one postocular scale; (5) two scales bordering the posteromedial edge of the first infralabial; (6) the medial sublabial scale not enlarged; (7) 19 midbody scale rows; (8) 21 transverse scale rows just posterior to head; (9) 18 transverse scale rows just anterior to vent; (10) 180 ventral scales; (11) 45 subcaudal scales; (12) relative size of frontal to frontonasal 136.3%; (13) relative size of interparietal to nuchal scale 133.9%; and (14) the light-colored band on the body present closer to the head. (Kliukin et al. 2025) 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 2.74 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
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| Etymology | Named after Dr. Anna B. Vassilieva, a Russian herpetologist currently working at the a.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the russian academy of Sciences. Dr. Vassilieva collected the holotype of the new species; furthermore, she has also spent over 10 years researching the herpetofauna of Vietnam. |
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