In this paper "New provincial records of skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) from northwestern Vietnam", we report six new records of skinks from northwestern Vietnam: Eutropis macularius, Scincella devorator, S. monticola, S. ochracea, Sphenomorphus cryptotis and S. indicus. Our new findings increase the species number of skinks (Scincidae) to nine in Dien Bien Province and to 14 in Son La Province. We also provide additional natural history data of aforementioned species. | Biodiversity Data Journal 3 e4284 doi Taxonomic Paper New provincial records of skinks Squamata Scincidae from northwestern Vietnam Anh Van Pham Dzung Trung Le Son Lan Hung Nguyen Thomas Ziegler Truong Quang Nguyen Faculty of Biology and Chemistry Tay Bac University Quyet Tam Ward Son La City Son La Province Vietnam Faculty of Biology Hanoi National University of Education 136 Xuan Thuy Street Cau Giay Hanoi Vietnam AG Zoologischer Garten Köln Riehler Straße 173 D-50735 Köln Germany Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road Cau Giay Hanoi Vietnam Corresponding author Truong Quang Nguyen nqt2@ Academic editor Katharina Wollenberg Valero Received 28 Nov 2014 Accepted 28 Jan 2015 Published 05 Feb 2015 Citation Pham A Le D Nguyen S Ziegler T Nguyen T 2015 New provincial records of skinks Squamata Scincidae from northwestern Vietnam. Biodiversity Data Journal 3 e4284. doi Abstract We report six new records of skinks from northwestern Vietnam Eutropis macularius Scincella devorator S. monticola S. ochracea Sphenomorphus cryptotis and S. indicus. Our new findings increase the species number of skinks Scincidae to nine in Dien Bien Province and to 14 in Son La Province. We also provide additional natural history data of aforementioned species. Keywords Scincidae new records skinks taxonomy Dien Bien Province Son La Province. Introduction In the recent checklist of the herpetofauna of Vietnam Nguyen et al. 2009 listed 46 skink species of the family Scincidae. Since then five new species have been described from Pham A et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author and source are credited. 2 Pham A et al. Vietnam viz. Scincella apraefrontalis Nguyen Nguyen Böhme amp Ziegler 2010 .
