New Loam-Swimming Skink, Genus Brachymeles (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Luzon and Catanduanes Islands, Philippines

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作者：
Siler, Cameron D. [1 ,2 ]
Diesmos, Arvin C. [3 ]
Brown, Rafe M. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Kansas, Nat Hist Museum, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[2] Univ Kansas, Biodivers Res Ctr, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[3] Philippine Natl Museum, Div Zool, Herpetol Sect, Manila, Philippines
来源：
JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY | 2010年 / 44卷 / 01期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
POCKET GOPHERS; BODY-FORM; LIZARD; SPHENOMORPHUS; LACERTILIA; EVOLUTION;
D O I：
10.1670/08-318.1
中图分类号：
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号：
071002 ;
摘要：
We describe a new species of scincid lizard of the genus Brachymeles from the Luzon Faunal Region of the northern Philippines. We discovered the new species in the Camarines Norte Province of the Bicol Peninsula (Luzon Island) and Catanduanes Island. Until recently, the new species had been mistaken as Brachymeles talinis, a distantly allopatric yet morphologically similar, large-bodied congener from the central Philippines. The new species is the second-largest known species of Brachymeles and differs from its congeners by numerous external morphological features. It is the eighth known Brachymeles from the Luzon Faunal Region and the sixth pentadactyl species in the genus.
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