Abstract The Indochinese Peninsula represents one of the key global biodiversity hotspots in
Southeast Asia. The herpetofauna of Indochina (herein including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia …

Given Singapore's location at the confluence of important maritime trading routes, and that it
was established as a British East India Company trading post in 1819, it is unsurprising that …

Karstic landscapes are immense reservoirs of biodiversity and range-restricted endemism.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the world's third-largest vertebrate genus Cyrtodactylus …

ABSTRACT A new species of Cyrtodactylus is described from Tamenglong District in
northwestern Manipur State, northeast India. The new species is diagnosed from other …

Aims: Yunnan Province has the richest biodiversity among all administrative regions in
China. Therefore, having detailed, updated checklists of different fauna and flora groups of …

Slug-eating snakes of the subfamily Pareinae are an insufficiently studied group of snakes
specialized in feeding on terrestrial mollusks. Currently Pareinae encompass three genera …

Abstract According to the One Plan Approach to Conservation, proposed by the IUCN SSC
Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG), there is, besides in situ conservation …

Lizards and snakes (squamates) are known for their varied sex determining systems, and
gecko lizards are especially diverse, having evolved sex chromosomes independently …

An integrative taxonomic analysis recovers a distinctive new species of the gekkonid genus
Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 from Satun Province in extreme southern Thailand as the sister …

The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third largest vertebrate genus on the planet with
well over 300 species that range across at least eight biogeographic regions from South …