Joint Vietnam - Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Centre; 63 Nguyen Van Huyen Road; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; VieTNAM; Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leninskiye Gory; GSP-1; Moscow 119991; RUSSiA.
Herpetology Laboratory; Department of Biology; La Sierra University; 4500 Riverwalk Parkway; Riverside; California 92505; USA; Department of Herpetology; San Diego Natural History Museum; PO Box 121390; San Diego; California; 92112; USA.
Zootaxa. 2023 Jun 23;5306(5):537-550. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.5.2.
An integrative taxonomic analysis delimits and diagnoses the new species Hemiphyllodactylus cattien sp. nov. from Cat Tien National Park, Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam-the eighth species of Hemiphyllodactylus to be described from Vietnam. The new species is recovered as the sister species to a clade comprised of H. indosobrinus from Laos and H. flaviventris from Thailand based on phylogenetic analyses using ND2 mtDNA gene sequences. Unlike the vast majority of Hemiphyllodactylus which are site-restricted upland endemics, Hemiphyllodactylus cattien sp. nov. is a lowland species collected from one of the most well-surveyed regions in Vietnam. Its discovery further emphasizes the need for continued re-sampling of survey sites already considered to be well-explored.
一个综合分类分析划定并诊断了新物种半叶趾虎属 Cat Tien 种，来自越南南部同奈省的 Cat Tien 国家公园——这是第八个被描述的来自越南的半叶趾虎属物种。该新种是基于 ND2 mtDNA 基因序列的系统发育分析，被恢复为与一个由老挝的 H. indosobrinus 和泰国的 H. flaviventris 组成的分支的姐妹种。与绝大多数仅限于特定地点的高地特有种不同，半叶趾虎属 Cat Tien 种是一种来自越南调查最充分的地区之一的低地物种。它的发现进一步强调了需要继续对已经被认为是充分调查过的调查地点进行重新采样。
