In Son La Province, Nguyen, Ho and Nguyen (2009) documented a total of 38 species of snakes. Pham et al. (2013) recently recorded five species of colubrids and one species of viper for the first time from Son La Province. In the paper "New records of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Son La Province, Vietnam", we report seven new records of snakes for Son La Province based on newly collected materials from Copia Nature Reserve (Thuan Chau District) and Son La City | Herpetology Notes volume 7 771-777 2014 published online on 21 December 2014 New records of snakes Squamata Serpentes from Son La Province Vietnam Anh Van Pham1 2 Son Lan Hung Nguyen2 and Truong Quang Nguyen3 Abstract. We report seven new records of snake species from Son La Province northwestern Vietnam on the basis of a new reptile collection from Copia Nature Reserve Thuan Chau District and Son La City comprising six species of Colubridae Cyclophiops multicinctus Gonyosoma frenatum G. prasinum Liopeltis frenatus Oligodon catenatus and O. chinensis and one species of Pseudoxenodontidae Pseudoxenodon macrops . Our findings bring the species number of snakes to 51 in Son La Province. Keywords. Colubridae Pseudoxenodontidae distribution taxonomy Copia Nature Reserve Son La City. Introduction Murphy Voris Murthy Traub and Cumberbatch 2012 Oligodon nagao David Nguyen Nguyen Jiang In the recent checklist of the herpetofauna of Vietnam Chen Teynié and Ziegler 2012 Oligodon cattienensis Nguyen Ho and Nguyen 2009 listed 192 species of Vassilieva Geissler Galoyan Poyarkov Van Devender snakes. Since then one new genus Colubroelaps Orlov and Böhme 2013 and Azemiops kharini Orlov Ryabov Kharin Ananjeva Nguyen and Nguyen 2009 13 new amp Nguyen 2013. In addition nine new country records species and one new subspecies of snakes have been of snakes have reported from the country comprising described in Vietnam viz. Calamaria gialaiensis Ziegler two species of Colubridae one species of Homalopsidae Nguyen and Nguyen 2008 Calamaria abramovi and six species of Elapidae Vogel et al. 2009 Nguyen Orlov 2009 Colubroelaps nguyenvansangi Orlov et al. 2010 Rasmussen et al. 2011 Murphy et al. Kharin Ananjeva Nguyen and Nguyen 2009 Lycodon 2012a . ruhstrati abditus Vogel David Pauwels Sumonth In Son La Province Nguyen Ho and Nguyen 2009 Norval Hendrix Vu and Ziegler 2009 Protobothrops documented a total of 38 species of snakes. Pham et trungkhanhensis Orlov Ryabov and Nguyen 2009 al. 2013 .
