Sphenomorphus sheai • A New Species of Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Kon Tum Plateau, southern Central Vietnam

A new forest skink species of the genus Sphenomorphus is described from Kon Tum Plateau, southern Central Vietnam. Sphenomorphus sheai sp. nov. is similar to the other montane skink species from the Indochina region, Lygosoma veunsaiensis, Scincella apraefrontalis, Sphenomorphus tetradactylus, and Sphenomorphus tridigitus, in having a small size and the absence of external ear openings. Leer más.