The World Wide
Fund (WWF) has discovered three news species in Vietnam, including split-nostril
Bat, cricket frog, and fangless snake.

Mekong bat
or split-nostril bat (Murina eleryi), spotted in a forest in northern Vietnam, is one of the 145 new species
discovered in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong
region in 2009 and recently highlighted in a report by WWF.

The cricket
frog (Leptolalax applebyi), a small and mottled amphibian, was found hiding in
a pile of leaves in the central province of Quang Nam.

The fangless
snake is one of ten reptiles discovered in the Greater Mekong region in 2009.
This snake was found in the central province
of Lam Dong.

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