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Despite its recognition since the early 1900s, the agamid lizard Pseudocalotes austeniana remains known based on 3 vouchered specimens only from the East Himalaya, and little is known about its general biology. During herpetological surveys of Tibet, China, we collected 3 specimens of P. austeniana from Medog County, southeastern Tibet, including the first juvenile specimen ever vouchered. We provide a detailed description based on new material of this enigmatic species, report on a range extension of 400 km northeastward from its type locality, its ontogenetic shift, and clutch size. 

The most comprehensive study on amphibian chytridiomycosis in southeast Asia to date was conducted by Swei et al. (2011), who screened over 3,000 individuals and found only 2.35% were positive for Bd. Those individuals observed to be Bd-positive were sampled from Indonesia (0.25% infection rate), Laos (0.73%), Malaysia (0.90%), and the Philippines (8.01%). Although Philippine samples showed a higher infection rate in the study, the infected individuals came from a single, highly disturbed mountain on Luzon Island (Swei et al. 2011). Given the unique biogeographic history of the Philippine archipelago, and its importance to global amphibian diversity as a megadiverse nation and biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al. 2000), additional studies are needed across a broader region of the country to better evaluate the prevalence of infectious amphibian diseases. Here, we present novel data on the presence and distribution of both Bd and RV pathogens among wild amphibian populations on the islands of Calayan, Camiguin Norte, Luzon, and Negros in the central and northern Philippines.