Unrealized diversity in an urban rainforest: A new species of Lygosoma (Squamata: Scincidae) from western Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo)

We collected two specimens of an undescribed species of Lygosoma from pitfall traps in an urban rainforest in Kuching and from the base of a forested hill in western Sarawak, East Malaysia. The new species is diagnosable from all south-east Asian congeners by morphological characters, and most close...

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Main Authors: Karin, Benjamin R., Freitas, Elyse S., Shonleben, Samuel, Grismer, Lee Lee, Bauer, Aaron Matthew, Das, Indraneil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Magnolia Press 2018
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/19652/
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