A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Tropical Andes

Vanessa Aguirre-Peñafiel; Omar Torres-Carvajal; Pedro M. Sales Nunes; Mika R. Peck; Simon T. Maddock

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.4

A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Tropical Andes

Vanessa Aguirre-Peñafiel, Omar Torres-Carvajal^*, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Mika R. Peck, Simon T. Maddock

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Abstract

A new species of Riama lizard from the western slopes of the Andes in northern Ecuador is described herein. Morphologically, Riama yumborum sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other congenerics by having an incomplete nasoloreal suture and a cylindrical hemipenial body with diagonally orientated flounces on its lateral aspect. Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA support the monophyly of the new species and its sister taxon relationship with R. labionis, which occurs allopatrically.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	246-260
Number of pages	15
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	3866
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.4
State	Published - 23 Sep 2014

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Keywords

Cloudforest
DNA
Ecuador
Neotropics
Systematics

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A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Tropical Andes

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