Bronchocela vietnamensis

Bronchocela vietnamensis is a slender, green, exceptionally long-tailed agama described from Vietnam in 2005. A measured female had a snout–vent length near 95 mm and tail around 335 mm, while an adult male from Cat Tien measured 86 mm with a 316-mm tail. The tympanum is small and indistinct, less than half the eye diameter, helping distinguish it from similar B. smaragdina (Hallermann 2005; Vietnamese National Biodiversity Database).

This Vietnamese endemic is recorded from natural evergreen forest in Gia Lai, Phu Yen, Binh Thuan, Dong Nai and adjoining highland areas, generally around 230–1,050 metres. It is active by day during the rainy season, climbing flexible vegetation with the aid of its long tail and taking local insects. Its green colour provides camouflage among leaves. Some researchers suspect B. vietnamensis and B. orlovi may be extremely close or synonymous, but molecular evidence remains incomplete (Vietnamese National Biodiversity Database; Hoang et al. 2020).