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<mods:title>New country records of reptiles from Laos</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Luu, Vinh Quang</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nguyen, Truong Quang</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Calame, Thomas</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Hoang, Tuoi Thi</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Southichack, Sisomphone</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Bonkowski, Michael</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Ziegler, Thomas</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
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<mods:start>1015</mods:start>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e1015</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1314-2828-1-1015</mods:identifier>
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<taxonomicName authority="Vogel, David, Pauwels, Sumontha, Norval, Hendrix, Vu & Ziegler, 2009" authorityName="Vogel, David, Pauwels, Sumontha, Norval, Hendrix, Vu & Ziegler" authorityYear="2009" class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Lycodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycodon ruhstrati" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="ruhstrati" subSpecies="abditus">Lycodon ruhstrati abditus Vogel, David, Pauwels, Sumontha, Norval, Hendrix, Vu & Ziegler, 2009</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">Materials</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="2013-05-14" collectionCode="VFU" collectorName="V. Q. Luu" country="Laos" latitude="17.294134" location="Laos" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="106.16755" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" typeStatus="Other material">
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Type status:
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. Occurrence: recordedBy:
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<collectorName pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">V. Q. Luu</collectorName>
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; individualCount:
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; sex:
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<specimenType pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">male</specimenType>
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; Location: country:
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<collectingCountry pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">Laos</collectingCountry>
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; stateProvince: Khammouane; verbatimLocality: Hin Nam No National Protected Area; verbatimElevation: 556 m; verbatimLatitude:
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<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="17.294134">17°17.648'N</geoCoordinate>
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; verbatimLongitude:
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="106.16755">106°10.053'E</geoCoordinate>
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; Event: eventDate:
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<collectingDate pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" value="2013-05-14">2013-05-14</collectingDate>
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; Record Level: institutionCode:
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<collectionCode pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">VFU</collectionCode>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">Description</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">(Fig. 6)</paragraph>
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Specimen examined (n = 1). VFU A.2013.5, adult male, collected by V. Q. Luu on 14 May 2013 from Pa Rang region, Noong Ma Commune, Boualapha District, Khammouane Province (
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,
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, elevation 556 m a.s.l.), within Hin Nam No NPA.
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Morphological characters. Total length (TL) 665 mm (SVL 520 mm, TaL 145 mm); body elongate; head moderately distinct from neck, rather flattened; snout projecting anteriorly beyond lower jaw; pupil vertically oval; tail tapered and thin; maxillary teeth 12/12; snout scale broad; rostral distinctly broader than high, partly visible from above; internasals large, pentagonal, not in contact with loreal; prefrontal more than half length of internasal, subrectangular, wider than long, not entering orbit; frontal hexagonal, narrowed posteriorly; parietals longer than wide; nasal paired; loreal 1/1, small, pentagonal, not bordering the eye; supralabials 8/8, third to fifth in contact with the eye, sixth largest; infralabials 10/10, first to fifth bordering chin shields; preocular 1/1; postoculars 2/2, bordering anterior temporal; anterior temporals 2/2; posterior temporals 3/3; dorsal scale rows 17-17-15; five middorsal scales keeled, the outer rows usually smooth; ventrals 224; subcaudals 96, paired; cloacal single. Coloration in preservative: Dorsal surface greyish or blackish, with white and cream cross-bars, 17 on the body, increasing the size at the bottom of each light cross-bands, best marked anteriorly, and becoming dim posteriorly; belly cream, progressively but not extensively speckled with dark grey on the posterior edges of the ventral scales; upper tail as the posterior body, tail rings cream and extending towards the under part of the tail (determination after
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<bibRefCitation author="Vogel, G" journalOrPublisher="Tropical Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" pagination="131 - 182" title="A review of Lycodonruhstrati (Fischer 1886) auctorum (SquamataColubridae), with the description of a new species from Thailand and a new subspecies from the Asian mainland" volume="22" year="2009">Vogel et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation author="Ziegler, T" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" pagination="1 - 40" title="The diversity of a snake community in a karst forest ecosystem in the central Truong Son, Vietnam, with an identification key" volume="1493" year="2007">Ziegler et al. 2007</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">Ecology</paragraph>
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The specimen of
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Lycodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycodon ruhstrati" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="ruhstrati" subSpecies="abditus">Lycodon ruhstrati abditus</taxonomicName>
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was found at 11:00 while moving through a forest path. The surrounding habitat was karst forest at the elevation of 556 m a.s.l.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">Distribution</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Lycodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycodon ruhstrati" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruhstrati">Lycodon ruhstrati</taxonomicName>
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has been known from Taiwan, China and northern Vietnam:
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is endemic to Taiwan and the range of
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Lycodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycodon ruhstrati" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="ruhstrati" subSpecies="abditus">Lycodon ruhstrati abditus</taxonomicName>
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is widespread in the mainland of China and Vietnam (see
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<bibRefCitation author="Vogel, G" journalOrPublisher="Tropical Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" pagination="131 - 182" title="A review of Lycodonruhstrati (Fischer 1886) auctorum (SquamataColubridae), with the description of a new species from Thailand and a new subspecies from the Asian mainland" volume="22" year="2009">Vogel et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
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). Our finding represents the first record of the species as well as the subspecies,
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Colubridae" genus="Lycodon" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycodon ruhstrati" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="ruhstrati" subSpecies="abditus">Lycodon ruhstrati abditus</taxonomicName>
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, from Laos and it is approximately about 20 km far from the type locality of the subspecies in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1015">Notes</paragraph>
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The specimen from Laos differs from the description of
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<bibRefCitation author="Vogel, G" journalOrPublisher="Tropical Zoology" pageId="0" pageNumber="1015" pagination="131 - 182" title="A review of Lycodonruhstrati (Fischer 1886) auctorum (SquamataColubridae), with the description of a new species from Thailand and a new subspecies from the Asian mainland" volume="22" year="2009">Vogel et al. (2009)</bibRefCitation>
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in having fewer cross-bands on the body (17 versus 19-43).
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