Volume 13 | Number 1 | May 2024
v13i1.318ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v13i1.318
Submitted date: 10 January 2024
Accepted date: 21 May 2024
Published date: 30 May 2024
Pp. 9–15, pls. 6–7.
A FURTHER TAXONOMIC REASSESSMENT OF Cyrtodactylus madarensis SHARMA, 1980 (SQUAMATA: GEKKONIDAE) NOW IN THE GENUS Eublephairs Gray, 1827 (SQUAMATA: EUBLEPHARIADE)
Zeeshan A. Mirza*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: snakeszeeshan@gmail.com
Abstract
A recent phylogenetic study identified the population of Eublepharis Gray, 1827, from Rajasthan (India) as a distinct taxon from Eublepharis macularius (Blyth, 1854). A taxonomic reassessment of the population based on literature, existing museum material and molecular data allowed me to assign the name Eublepharis madarensis (Sharma, 1980) to this population. A redescription and rediagnosis of the species are presented based on museum material and images of uncollected individuals. A discussion on the assignment of the nomen ‘madarensis’ is presented. The species appears to be distributed along the Aravalli hills, and most records of the species lie outside of protected areas.
Key words : Eublepharidae, India, Sauria, synonymy, taxonomy
Section Editor: Thasun Amarasinghe
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v13i1.318
Submitted date: 10 January 2024
Accepted date: 21 May 2024
Published date: 30 May 2024
Pp. 9–15, pls. 6–7.
A FURTHER TAXONOMIC REASSESSMENT OF Cyrtodactylus madarensis SHARMA, 1980 (SQUAMATA: GEKKONIDAE) NOW IN THE GENUS Eublephairs Gray, 1827 (SQUAMATA: EUBLEPHARIADE)
Zeeshan A. Mirza*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: snakeszeeshan@gmail.com
Abstract
A recent phylogenetic study identified the population of Eublepharis Gray, 1827, from Rajasthan (India) as a distinct taxon from Eublepharis macularius (Blyth, 1854). A taxonomic reassessment of the population based on literature, existing museum material and molecular data allowed me to assign the name Eublepharis madarensis (Sharma, 1980) to this population. A redescription and rediagnosis of the species are presented based on museum material and images of uncollected individuals. A discussion on the assignment of the nomen ‘madarensis’ is presented. The species appears to be distributed along the Aravalli hills, and most records of the species lie outside of protected areas.
Key words : Eublepharidae, India, Sauria, synonymy, taxonomy
Section Editor: Thasun Amarasinghe
v13i1.317ISSN: 1800-427X (printed)
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v13i1.317
Submitted date: 10 January 2024
Accepted date: 21 May 2024
Published date: 30 May 2024
Pp. 1–8, pls. 1–5.
A NEW MONTANE-DWELLING SPECIES OF Japalura GRAY, 1853 (SQUAMATA: AGAMIDAE) FROM ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA
Zeeshan A. Mirza*, Gaurang Gowande, Tejas Thackeray, Harshal Bhosale, Mandar Sawant, Pushkar Phansalkar & Harshil Patel
*Corresponding author. E-mail: snakeszeeshan@gmail.com
Abstract
The montane agamid lizard Japalura austeniana (Annandale, 1908), is rare and is distributed across parts of the eastern Himalayas of India and China. Support from molecular and morphological data provide evidence for the existence of a species complex in the populations referred to as that binomen, and we here describe a morphologically cryptic allied new species. Evidence from molecular data suggests the presence of additional undescribed species across the distribution of that species complex. Elevation might be the restricting factor for gene flow explaining most of the diversification of that montane species complex across the Himalayas.
Key words : Agamidae, biodiversity hotspot, biogeography, conservation, Himalayas, systematics
Section Editor: Ivan Ineich
LSID:urn:lsid:zoobank.org
eISSN: 1800-427X (online)
DOI:10.47605/tapro.v13i1.317
Submitted date: 10 January 2024
Accepted date: 21 May 2024
Published date: 30 May 2024
Pp. 1–8, pls. 1–5.
A NEW MONTANE-DWELLING SPECIES OF Japalura GRAY, 1853 (SQUAMATA: AGAMIDAE) FROM ARUNACHAL PRADESH, INDIA
Zeeshan A. Mirza*, Gaurang Gowande, Tejas Thackeray, Harshal Bhosale, Mandar Sawant, Pushkar Phansalkar & Harshil Patel
*Corresponding author. E-mail: snakeszeeshan@gmail.com
Abstract
The montane agamid lizard Japalura austeniana (Annandale, 1908), is rare and is distributed across parts of the eastern Himalayas of India and China. Support from molecular and morphological data provide evidence for the existence of a species complex in the populations referred to as that binomen, and we here describe a morphologically cryptic allied new species. Evidence from molecular data suggests the presence of additional undescribed species across the distribution of that species complex. Elevation might be the restricting factor for gene flow explaining most of the diversification of that montane species complex across the Himalayas.
Key words : Agamidae, biodiversity hotspot, biogeography, conservation, Himalayas, systematics
Section Editor: Ivan Ineich
LSID:urn:lsid:zoobank.org
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