Four New Geckos Discovered
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 20th, 2008
United Press International is crediting the Vietnam News Agency with reporting from Long Xuyen, Vietnam, that herpetologists have discovered four new species of geckos in isolated mountains and islands in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
L. Lee Grismer with La Sierra University in the United States and Ngo Van Tri from Vietnam’s Institute of Tropical Biology published their 2007 findings in the journal Herpetologica.
The reptiles are of the genus Cnemaspis and have the species names caudanivea, auranticopes, nuicamensis and tucdupensis.
The geckos’ length ranges from about 4-6 inches from head to tail.
The first gecko of this species in Vietnam was discovered in 1887 and the new findings bring the total number of Cnemaspis species in the nation to five.
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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
More good news out of Vietnam. This place is a gold mine of new species being found. I can also recall some amazing stories about their version of Sasquatch called “Nguoi Rung”. You can also read about them in Lorens book “The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates”. I can also recall stories from helicopter pilots who flew for the United States Military during the Vietnam war. Anyway, I’m so excited about the new Gecko species found. It’s hard enough to find one new species and they came back with four of them. Thats great.
Are any of them bipedal, and loquacious?