A new cryptic species of Anolis lizard from northwestern South America (Iguanidae, Dactyloinae)

Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz; Carolina Reyes-Puig; Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig; Julián A. Velasco; Fernando Ayala-Varela; Omar Torres-Carvajal

doi:10.3897/zookeys.794.26936

A new cryptic species of Anolis lizard from northwestern South America (Iguanidae, Dactyloinae)

Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz
, Carolina Reyes-Puig^*
, Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig
, Julián A. Velasco
, Fernando Ayala-Varela
, Omar Torres-Carvajal

^*Corresponding author for this work

Biología

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
Fundación Oscar Efrén Reyes
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

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Abstract

A new species of Anolis lizard from the Andean slopes of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador, from between 1187 and 2353 m in elevation, is described. The new species can be distinguished from other Anolis in squamation, cranial osteology, hemipenial morphology, and nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. The new species is sister to Anolis aequatorialis, and it is suggested that previous records of A. aequatorialis in Colombia correspond to the new species described herein.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	135-163
Number of pages	29
Journal	ZooKeys
Volume	2018
Issue number	794
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.794.26936
State	Published - 2018

Keywords

Anolis dracula sp. n.
Diversity
Morphology
Phylogeny
Squamata
Taxonomy

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A new cryptic species of Anolis lizard from northwestern South America (Iguanidae, Dactyloinae)

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