<p>Morphological characters of the specimen from Tay Yen Tu NR agreed well with descriptions of Taylor (1963), Ziegler et al. (1999) and Nguyen et al. (2018). Body slender with an extra-long tail (SVL 52.2 mm, TaL 38.5 mm, tail loss); head longer than wide; horizontal diameter of orbit longer than distance from anterior corner of orbit to nostril; supralabials 7/7; infralabials 5/5; tympanum exposed, horizontal diameter (1.8 mm) less than that of the orbit; chin shields in three pairs; dorsal scales enlarged and keeled in six rows at mid-body, without a non-contiguous vertebral row of smaller scales; ventral scales widened, in six rows at mid-body; lateral scales in 12 rows at mid-body on each sides, smaller in size than dorsal and ventral scales; femoral pores four on each side; subdigital lamellae broadened. Colouration in life: Dorsal surface of head and body brown with some small black spots; upper part of flanks black with numerous yellowish spots, lower part of flanks light brown-green; dorsal surface of limbs and tail base with black spots; ventral surface whitish-cream (Fig. 5).</p>
Sumber: New records and an updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, north-eastern Vietnam
