Four New Geckos Discovered
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 20th, 2008
United Press International is crediting the Vietnam News Agency with reporting from Long Xuyen, Vietnam, that herpetologists have discovered four new species of geckos in isolated mountains and islands in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
L. Lee Grismer with La Sierra University in the United States and Ngo Van Tri from Vietnam’s Institute of Tropical Biology published their 2007 findings in the journal Herpetologica.
The reptiles are of the genus Cnemaspis and have the species names caudanivea, auranticopes, nuicamensis and tucdupensis.
The geckos’ length ranges from about 4-6 inches from head to tail.
The first gecko of this species in Vietnam was discovered in 1887 and the new findings bring the total number of Cnemaspis species in the nation to five.
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More good news out of Vietnam. This place is a gold mine of new species being found. I can also recall some amazing stories about their version of Sasquatch called “Nguoi Rung”. You can also read about them in Lorens book “The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates”. I can also recall stories from helicopter pilots who flew for the United States Military during the Vietnam war. Anyway, I’m so excited about the new Gecko species found. It’s hard enough to find one new species and they came back with four of them. Thats great.
Are any of them bipedal, and loquacious?