TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Species of Microtegu Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from Amazonian Ecuador
AU - Torres-Carvajal, Omar
AU - Parra, Vanessa
AU - Sales Nunes, Pedro M.
AU - Koch, Claudia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - We describe a new species of Microtegu lizard (Selvasaura) from the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Ecuador. Among other characters, the new species differs from the only other known species of Selvasaura, namely, Selvasaura brava from Peru, in having more femoral pores in males and a unilobed hemipenis. We present the first description of the skull of Selvasaura, along with a molecular phylogeny of Cercosaurinae and genetic distances as additional evidence supporting delimitation of the new species.
AB - We describe a new species of Microtegu lizard (Selvasaura) from the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Ecuador. Among other characters, the new species differs from the only other known species of Selvasaura, namely, Selvasaura brava from Peru, in having more femoral pores in males and a unilobed hemipenis. We present the first description of the skull of Selvasaura, along with a molecular phylogeny of Cercosaurinae and genetic distances as additional evidence supporting delimitation of the new species.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122614589
SN - 1175-5326
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
ER -