A new species of <i>Hemiphyllodactylus</i> Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Son La Province, Vietnam.

ABSTRACT: An integrative analysis revealed a new species of the Hemiphyllodactylus typus group collected from local house walls and surrounding karst formations in Pa Kha 1 Village, Long Phieng Commune, Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam. Hemiphyllodactylus pakhaensis sp. nov. is recovered within Clade 4 of the typus group, exhibiting an uncorrected pairwise distance greater than 6.65% from all other congeners based on a 1,043 base pair segment of the ND2 gene. It can be distinguished from its congeners by body size, chin scales, circumnasal scales, dorsal and ventral scales. A multiple factor analysis using normalized morphometric, meristic, and categorical character types recovered its unique, non-overlapping placement in morphospace as statistically significantly di

SUBMITTER: Ha HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12895182 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature