Scincella devorator
Creators: name: Dau, Vinh Quang
name: Hoang, Thao Ngoc
name: Nguyen, Truong Quang
name: Pham, Anh Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Scincidae
Scincella
Scincella devorator

description: Scincella devorator (Darevsky, Orlov & Cuc, 2004)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: HUS. 2024.11; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4D9715EA-ACA8-55B3-AAC6-293AAB1B4C82; Taxon: scientificNameID: Scincella devorator; scientificName: Scincella devorator; genus: Scincella; specificEpithet: devorator; scientificNameAuthorship: (Darevsky, Orlov & Cuc, 2004); Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Thanh Hoa; county: Thanh Hoa; municipality: Xuan Lien; locality: near Bat Mot Commune; verbatimElevation: 950 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°02'19.8"N; verbatimLongitude: 104°59'16.8"E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: June; eventTime: 2007; eventRemarks: collected by A. V Pham; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Lizard; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Description
Morphological characters of the specimen from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, agreed with the descriptions of Darevsky et al. (2004) and Pham et al. (2015): SVL 54.0 mm, TaL 71.0 mm (n = 1). Head longer than wide; rostral wider than high; supranasals absent; prefrontals separated from each other by frontal; parietals in contact posteriorly; nuchal scales in 3 pairs, enlarged; 2 / 2 loreals; 8 / 8 supraciliaries; 4 / 4 supraoculars, followed by one small postsupraocular; 1 / 1 primary temporal; 2 / 2 secondary temporals; lower eyelid with a large undivided opaque window; 7 / 7 supralabials, the fifth and sixth below the eye; ear opening without projecting lobules; tympanum deeply sunk; mental wider than long; 6 / 6 infralabials; postmental undivided; 28 rows of mid-body scales; scales of two vertebral rows on the neck widened; dorsal scales between lateral stripes in ½ + 6 + ½ rows, smooth, larger than lateral scales; paravertebral scales 66; 64 transverse rows of ventrals, smooth; precloacals two, enlarged; medial subcaudals widened; limbs short, pentadactyl; fingers and toes meeting when adpressed; subdigital lamellae under fourth finger 13 / 13 and 17 / 17 under fourth toe.
Colouration in preservative. Dorsal surface of head, body and tail base brownish-grey, with a dark vertebral stripe and two silver grey clear bands extending from parietals to base of tail; a distinct dark stripe from behind the eye to hind limb in upper lateral zone; venter and under surface of tail base cream (Fig. 2).
Distribution
In Vietnam, this species has been recorded from Quang Ninh, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc and Son La Provinces (Darevsky et al. 2004, Pham et al. 2015, Ziegler et al. 2015). It should be stated that this species is endemic to Vietnam.
Type locality: Uong Bi, Quang Ninh Province (Uetz et al. 2024).
Ecology
The specimen was found at 16: 00 h, under a carpet of fallen leaves. The surrounding habitat was disturbed evergreen forest of medium hardwood and shrub.
description: Published as part of Dau, Vinh Quang, Hoang, Thao Ngoc, Nguyen, Truong Quang & Pham, Anh Van, 2024, New records and an updated list of reptiles from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, pp. e 134976 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e134976, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e134976