The Herpetology Notes Magazine recently announced the new discovery of the Yunnan mustached-toad in Vietnam.

Yunnan mustached-toad.

This species of toad has scientific name as Leptobrachium promustache Rao, Wilkinson & Zhang 2006, which was discovered in Dawei, Yunnan Province, China in 2006.

During a survey on the Hoang Lien Son Mountain in Van Ban district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai in 2004, Vietnamese and American scientists discovered this species of toad at the height of 1,300-1,400m above sea level.

They recorded the appearance of this species of toad in the area that is around 130km away from the site where they collected the first sample of the mustached-toad, at the height of 700m lower than the first site.

Normally, the Yunnan mustached-toad lives at the height of 2,500m above sea level in a tropical evergreen forest environment and they operate at night.

Gia Lai bongar.

Previously, a new species of snake was uncovered in Vietnam by researchers of the Institute of Ecological and Biological Resources of Vietnam and the Cologne Zoo in Germany. It is named Gia Lai bongar (Gia Lai Calamaria gialaiensis Ziegler, Nguyen & Nguyen, 2008).

According to Nguyen Quang Truong from the Institute of Ecological and Biological Resources, the standard sample of Gia Lai bongar was discovered in Kon Ka, in the central highlands province of Gia Lai in 1999. Detailed descriptions of this species are on Japan’s Current Herpetology Magazine, volume 27, issue 2.

This is the third bongar species discovered in Vietnam. This species lives at the height of between 500-700m above sea level, in a tropical evergreen forest environment and also operate at night.

Thu Huong