Wildlife of Laos

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An incomplete list of flora and fauna of Laos.

Contents 1 Fauna 1.1 Birds 2 Flora 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Fauna

• Agile gibbon (Hylobates agilis)
• Amida ladybird beetles (genus Amida)
• Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
• Banteng (Bos javanicus)
• Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis)
• Blood python (Python curtus)
• Deinagkistrodon pit viper (Deinagkistrodon acutus)
• False gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii)
• Giant muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis)
• Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
• Hatinh langur (Trachypithecus hatinhensis)
• Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
• Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris)
• Indian muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)
• Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)
• Elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
• Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
• Kouprey (Bos sauveli)
• Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
• Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
• Lesser false vampire bat (Megaderma spasma)
• Asian forest tortoise (Manouria emys)
• Marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata)
• Vietnamese pond turtle (Mauremys annamensis)
• Chinese mountain pit viper (Ovophis monticola)
• Asian giant soft-shelled turtle (Pelochelys cantorii)
• Pot-bellied pig (Sus scrofa domestica)
• Jerdon's pit viper (Protobothrops jerdonii)
• Brown-spotted pit viper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)
• Yangtze giant soft-shelled turtle (Rafetus swinhoei)
• Red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus)
• Reticulated python (Python reticulatus)
• Rice-field rat (Rattus argentiventer)
• Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
• Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)
• Scylla paramamosain
• Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)
• Silvery lutung (Trachypithecus cristatus)
• Tiger (Panthera tigris)
• Three-horned scaled pit viper (Triceratolepidophis sieversorum)
• Chinese green tree viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri)
• Truong Son muntjac (Muntiacus truongsonensis)
• Vietnamese Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus)
• Vietnamese Pheasant (Lophura hatinhensis)
• Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

[edit] Birds

Main article: List of birds of Laos

[edit] Flora

• Aralia dasyphylla
• Areca triandra
• Bamboo orchid
• Dacrydium gibbsiae
• Durian
• Vietnamese white pine

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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