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Two more new Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, India
被引:11
|作者:
Agarwal, Ishan
[1
,2
]
Bauer, Aaron M.
[3
,4
]
Pal, Saunak
[5
,6
]
Srikanthan, Achyuthan N.
[6
]
Khandekar, Akshay
[1
,2
]
机构:
[1] Thackeray Wildlife Fdn, Mumbai 400051, Maharashtra, India
[2] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Natl Ctr Biol Sci, Ecol & Evolut, Bengaluru 560065, India
[3] Villanova Univ, Dept Biol, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA 19085 USA
[4] Villanova Univ, Ctr Biodivers & Ecosyst Stewardship, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA 19085 USA
[5] Bombay Nat Hist Soc, Hornbill House, Mumbai 400001, Maharashtra, India
[6] Indian Inst Sci, Ctr Ecol Sci, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
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基金:
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词:
Biodiversity hotspot;
cryptic species;
Gekkonidae;
massif;
peninsular India;
taxonomy;
Western Ghats;
HEMIDACTYLUS OKEN;
ND2;
PHYLOGENY;
CNEMASPIS;
DIVERSITY;
REPTILIA;
STRAUCH;
GECKOS;
HILLS;
D O I:
10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.6
中图分类号:
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号:
071002 ;
摘要:
Two new species of the gekkonid genus Hemiphyllodactylus are described from mountains of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu. southern India. Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis sp. nov. and H. peninsularis sp. nov. are > 5 % divergent in the mitochondrial ND2 gene from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex and differ from each other and members of the H. aurantiacus complex in several mcristic characters and colouration. The description of these two new species takes the number of Indian Hemiphyllodactylus to six and the number of endemic geckos from Tamil Nadu to 15.
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页码:249 / 265
页数:17
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