<i>Cyrtodactylus vilaphongi</i> (IMAGE)

Virginia Commonwealth University

<i>Cyrtodactylus vilaphongi</i>

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The 10,000th species recorded into the database is Cyrtodactylus vilaphongi, a tiny gecko found in the jungle of Laos in Southeast Asia, which was discovered by a team of German, Vietnamese and Lao scientists.

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Photo used with permission by Truong Nguyen, a researcher with the Vietnamese team.

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