Tag: new species
New Species of Asian Grass Lizard From India Described
Takydromus ultapaniensis is brown in coloration with three stripes that run down the back to the tail. its ventral side is a yellowish in coloration, [...]
New Odd-Scaled Snake Species From The Achalinus Genus Described
Achalinus mirabilis was discovered in Taizhou City in Zhejiang Province, China. The city is highly urbanized in an economically developed region. [...]
New Forest Skink Species Discovered In Thailand
The suggested common name for the species is Khorat Plateau forest skink. It is currently only known to occur in Thailand's Phu Wiang Mountain, Tham G [...]
New Species Of Cyrtodactylus intermedius Discovered In Cambodia
It is the sister species of C. septimontium, which hails from southern Vietnam, according to the synopsis announcing the new species. [...]
New Species of Calamaria Snake From India Described
The burrowing snake species was found in montane evergreen forests in the state and adds to the number of herpetological findings in the area [...]
New Diploderma Lizard Species Discovered In The Hengduan Mountains of China
The lizard, Diploderma bifluviale sp. nov. is currently known to exist in semi-arid scrublands in the region's warm and dry valleys at elevations of [...]
New Wolf Snake Species Named After Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin
The snake is glossy black in coloration and can grow up to one meter in length, the researchers noted. [...]
37 Million-Year-Old Snake Species Discovered In England Described
The snake, Paradoxophidion richardoweni was first discovered at Hordle Cliff on the South Coast of England. [...]
Two Frogs Native to Peru Described
Both frog species are only known by the type locality and are narrowly distributed in the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park. [...]
New Gecko Species Covered In Tubercles Discovered In India
While Hemidactylus quartziticolus is its scientific name, it is suggested that its common names be Quartzite brookiish gecko or Thoothukudi brookiish [...]
New Breviceps Rain Frog Species Discovered In South Africa
The researchers analyzed the frog call, physical, RNA and DNA analysis to determine it is a new rainfrog species. [...]
New Tegu Species Discovered In the United States
Wautaugategu formidus lived during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, between 17.5 to 14.5 million years ago. [...]
Two New Crocodylus Species Discovered Off The Yucatán Peninsula
The populations of both the Banco Chinchorro and Cozumel species are morphologically, genetically, and ecologically distinct, the researchers note in [...]
New Frog Species Of the Genus Leptobrachium Discovered In India
Leptobrachium aryatium sp. nov. is different from others in its genus in that it has a bicolored iris that features an inverted, "fiery orange" v shap [...]
Three New Bent-toed Gecko Species Discovered In Nepal
The geckos were discovered by a university team on a night survey in the Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape in Central Nepal, a mountain area in Nepal when t [...]
Treefrog Species From Ecuador Discovered and Described
The frog is named after David C. Cannatella, Dean of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Cannatella collected [...]
New Colubrid Parrot Snake Species From Brazil Described
Leptophis mystacinus sp. nov was collected in Brazil. The researchers compared the new species with 1,625 specimens of Leptophis spp. using extracted [...]
Two African House Snakes New To Science Described
The Broadley’s African house snake (Boaedon broadleyi sp. nov.) is known to exist in four localities in Africa. Boaedon subniger can be found in North [...]
New Gecko Species Of The Genus Pseudogonatodes Discovered In Venezuela
While specimens were collected in 2002 and 2014 in evergreen forests of the country’s Paria Peninsula in northeastern Venezuela, it wasn’t until Octob [...]
Is the Dixon’s Whiptail Lizard a Full Species or Subspecies of Common Checkered Whiptail?
Biologists at the university will sample the DNA of both lizards and if they are proven to be different genetically, the Dixon’s whiptail might be eli [...]
New Colubrid Snake Species Named After Leonardo DiCaprio
Anguiculus dicaprioi was collected from mud roads. They were observed basking and stayed motionless until they were captured. [...]
New King Cobra Species Discovered In India
The researchers have restricted Ophiophagus hannah s. str. to populations of the snake located in eastern Pakistan, northern and eastern India, centra [...]
New Garter Snake Species Discovered in Mexico
The snake is currently only known to exist in two small high elevation highland areas of Jalisco, known as the Jaliscan Transverse Range Pine-Oak Wood [...]
New Pitviper Species Discovered in China
The snake, Ovophis jenkinsi, is named after herpetologist Robert "Hank" William Garfield Jenkins who died in 2023. [...]
