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Scincella apraefrontalis NGUYEN, NGUYEN, BÖHME & ZIEGLER, 2010

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Huulien Ground Skink
Vietnamese: Thằn lằn cổ hữu liên
F: Scinque de terre d’Huulien
G: Huulien Bodenskink 
SynonymScincella apraefrontalis NGUYEN, NGUYEN, BÖHME & ZIEGLER 2010
Scincella apraefrontalis — LINKEM et al. 2011 
DistributionVietnam (Lang Son, Nghe An)

Type locality: Huu Lien Nature Reserve, Huu Lung District, Lang Son Province (21°40’N, 106°20’E), elevation ca. 200 m.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: IEBR A.0832, an adult male collected in April 1998 by Nguyen Van Sang and Nguyen Quang Truong. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Small skink (36.1 mm SVL); supranasals absent; prefrontals absent; nuchals two or three pairs; nasal and first supralabial fused; loreal single; supralabials six; infralabials five; lower eyelid with undivided opaque window; external ear openings absent; midbody scales in 18 rows; limbs short, pentadactyl, widely separated when adpressed; subdigital lamellae in one row under the digits, numbering eight on fourth toe; dorsum and tail base bronze brown with some indistinct darker spots in anterior part of each scale; laterals paler with three or four longitudinal dark brown stripes.


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin apraefrontalis – meaning “without prefrontals”. 
References
  • Dau, Vinh Quang; Glenn Shea, Thao Ngoc Hoang, and An Vinh Ong 2018. New record of Scincella apraefrontalis (Squamata: Scincidae) from Pu Hoat Nature Reserve, Nghe An Province, Vietnam. Hamadryad 38 (1 & 2): 27-31 - get paper here
  • Linkem, Charles W.; Arvin C. Diesmos, Rafe M. Brown 2011. Molecular systematics of the Philippine forest skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Sphenomorphus): testing morphological hypotheses of interspecific relationships. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163: 1217–1243 - get paper here
  • Neang, Thy; Somaly Chan, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr.. 2018. A new species of smooth skink (Squamata: Scincidae: Scincella) from Cambodia. Zoological Research, DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.008 - get paper here
  • Nguyen, T.Q; Nguyen, V.S.; Böhme, W. & Ziegler, T. 2010. A new species of Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae) from Vietnam . Folia Zool. 59 (2): 115– 121 - get paper here
 
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