Dopasia sokolovi (DAREVSKY & NGUYEN VAN SANG, 1983)

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Anguinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Sokolov’s Glass Lizard
Synonym	Ophisaurus sokolovi DAREVSKY & NGUYEN-VAN-SANG 1983 Ophisaurus sokolovi — BAIN & TRUONG 2002 Ophisaurus sokolovi — BOBROV & SEMENOV 2008 Dopasia sokolovi — NGUYEN et al. 2011 Dopasia sokolovi — STUART et al. in WCS 2024
Distribution	Vietnam (Quang Nam, Gia Lai, Lam Dong), Laos Type locality: Buenloi, An Khe District, Gialai-Kontum Province (now Buon Luoi, K’ Bang District, Gia Lai Province), Vietnam, elevation: 700 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: IEBR (was NCSRV) 8222 (National Center for Science and Technology of Vietnam; now in IEBR, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi); Paratypes: ZISP 19794
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A representative of the East Asian group of placoderms, characterized by a large ear opening, the presence of three small scutes along the line between the nasal and frontal scutes, large frontal, frontal, and occipital scutes of almost equal width, and a distinct parietal. (Darevsky & Nguyen 1983, Google translated from Russian) 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 1.65 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Vladimir Evgenievich Sokolov (1928–1998), the leader of Russian theriology, famous for his organization of science and the nature conservation movement at the international level.
References	Bain, R. & Truong, N. Q. 2002. Geographic distribution: Ophisaurus sokolovi. Herpetological Review 33 (1): 66 - get paper here BARABANOV, ANDREI & KONSTANTIN MILTO 2017. An annotated type catalogue of the anguid, dibamid, scincid and varanid lizards in the Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (Reptilia: Sauria: Anguidae, Dibamidae, Scincidae and Varanidae). Zootaxa 4244 (1): 065–078 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bobrov V.V., Semenov D.V. 2008. Lizards of Vietnam [in Russian]. Moscow, 236 pp. Darevsky I S; Nguyen Van Sang, 1983. New and little known lizard species from Vietnam [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62 (12): 1827-1837 Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp. NGUYEN, TRUONG QUANG; WOLFGANG BÖHME, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, QUYET KHAC LE, KRISTIAN ROBERT PAHL, TANJA HAUS & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2011. Review of the genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 (Squamata: Anguidae) in the Indochina subregion. Zootaxa 2894: 58–68 - get paper here Poyarkov, Nikolay A.; Tan Van Nguyen, Evgeniy S. Popov,Peter Geissler, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Thy Neang, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Natalia B. Ananjeva, and Nikolai L. Orlov 2023. RECENT PROGRESS IN TAXONOMIC STUDIES, BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS, AND REVISED CHECKLIST OF REPTILES IN INDOCHINA. Russian Journal of Herpetology 30 (5): 255-576 (also as vol 28 (3A): 1 – 110 [2021]) - get paper here WCS 2024. Wildlife in Lao PDR, 2024 Status Report. Vientiane; Wildlife Conservation Society Lao PDR Program
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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