A New Species of the Genus Pseudocalotes (Squamata: Agamidae) from Southwest Yunnan, China

In this study, a new species of the genus is described from Yingjiang County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, based on four female specimens. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) interoculabials 3 or 4; (2) ca...

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Published in:	Animals (Basel) 2024-03, Vol.14 (6), p.826
Main Authors:	Xu, Yuhao, Gong, Yanan, Hou, Mian, Weng, Shiyang, Liu, Shuo, Deng, Jundong, Hu, Junkang, Peng, Lifang
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Biodiversity Females lizard molecular systematics morphological characters Morphology Phylogenetics Pseudocalotes jingpo sp. nov Taxonomy
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Summary:	In this study, a new species of the genus is described from Yingjiang County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, based on four female specimens. It can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) interoculabials 3 or 4; (2) canthals 5-7; (3) cicrcumorbitals 8-11; (4) 1 scale between rostral and nasal; (5) interparietal 1; (6) superciliaries 4-6; (7) supralabials 6-7, the 1st in contact with the nasal; (8) infralabials 6-8; (9) transverse gular fold and antehumeral fold present; (10) 2-3 enlarged scales between eye and ear; (11) nuchal crest single, consists of 3-5 erected spines; (12) dorsal crest row single, discontinuous and low, located between two keeled, parallel and enlarged scale rows; (13) enlarged postrictals absent; (14) scales around midbody 53-62, dorsal body scales heterogenous in size and shape; (15) midventrals smaller than dorsals; (16) subdigital scales on the 4th finger 20-26, and on the 4th toe 24-29; (17) dorsal background coloration light taupe with four irregular brown patches along the middle of dorsal; (18) inner lips wathet, tongue aurantiacus, throat bluish black. The population from Yingjiang County was nested within a highly supported lineage, formed a sister taxon with (SH 97/UFB 100) and according to the p-distance, the new species differed from its congeners by 14.5% to 35.2% for 2 (ND2) and 15.5% to 25.0% for 4 (ND4).
ISSN:	2076-2615 2076-2615