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Issue: Vol. 1729 No. 1: 20 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1729.1.4
Page range: 37–48
Abstract views: 93
PDF downloaded: 5

A new species of the snake genus Fimbrios from Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Truong Son, central Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae)

Cologne Zoo, Riehler Str. 173, D-50735 Köln, GERMANY
UMS 602 Taxinomie-collection - Reptiles & Amphibiens, Département Systématique et Evolution, CP 30, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE
UMS 602 Taxinomie-collection - Reptiles & Amphibiens, Département Systématique et Evolution, CP 30, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet St., Hanoi, VIETNAM
Reptilia Central Vietnam Truong Son Serpentes Fimbrios klossi F. smithi sp. n. morphology taxonomy distribution

Abstract

A second species of the previously monotypic snake genus Fimbrios is described from the Truong Son Mountain Range, Vietnam. Fimbrios smithi sp. n. is included in this genus on the basis of the combination of the following characters: rostral, mental and first three to four labials with raised, erected edges; a horizontal ridge of tissues above the rostral; a very large loreal. It is distinguished from F. klossi by having the suture between the internasals longer than that between the prefrontals; two suboculars; 193 ventrals, and 72 unpaired subcaudal scales; total length of at least 440 mm in males (with a tail length of 94 mm, and a tail / total length ratio of 0.214); dorsum greyish brown, with a paler flank area, and pale blotches and stripes in the neck region. Fimbrios smithi sp. n. is the seventh snake species that has been described as new from the Phong Nha—Ke Bang National Park, Quang Binh Province, central Vietnam, in the last decade; it is the forty-fourth colubrid snake species known from that region, which now comprises 60 snake species in general.

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