Agamid lizards (Agamidae, Acrodonta, Sauria, Reptilia) of Vietnam

✍ Scribed by Natalia B. Ananjeva; Nikolai L. Orlov; Nguyen Quang Truong

• Book ID: 102511754
• Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 211 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0232-5519
• DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.200600021

✦ Synopsis

Being a hotspot of plant and animal diversity and endemism, Vietnam is important for the conservation of biodiversity on a global scale. It is one of the most threatened areas in tropical Asia in terms of destruction of tropical rain forest as an environment with a unique Vietnamese fauna. Previous summaries on Vietnamese agamids, their taxonomy and distribution were published in the works of Bourret 1943, Nguyen & Ho 1996, Bobrov 1995, Ziegler 2002and Ziegler et al. 2006. New, intensive study of the fauna of Vietnam as well as new opportunities offered by molecular methods make clear that taxonomic diversity in Southeast Asia is underestimated. The aim of this paper is to show and review the taxonomic diversity of different evolutionary lineages of agamids and their geographical distribution. This is based on new results of the authors and most recent evaluation of literature sources.