A Novel Species Of Euspondylus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) From The Andes Mountains Of Central Peru

Keywords

Euspondylus paxcorpus; Gymnophthalmidae; Junin; Lizard; New species; Peru; Reptilia; South America; Squamata taxonomy

Abstract

The South American gymnophthalmid genus Euspondylus is distributed from Venezuela through Peru, with its highest diversity occurring in Peru. Euspondylus paxcorpus sp. nov. is a new species from Junin, Peru possessing prefrontal scales and represented by 60 specimens. The new species differs from all other species by the combination of four supraoculars with supraocular/supraciliary fusion, 5-7 occipitals, a single palpebral scale, five supralabials and infralabials, quadran-gular dorsal scales with low keels arranged in transverse series only, 40-45 in a longitudinal count and 22-28 in a trans-verse count, 12 rows of ventrals in a transverse count and 23-25 in a longitudinal count, and no sexual dimorphism in coloration. The discovery of E. paxcorpus increases the known number of Euspondylus species to 13. Because the color-Ation patterns of the specimens were greatly different after preservation in alcohol, caution should be used when identify-ing Euspondylus species from museum specimens.

Publication Date

10-21-2015

Publication Title

Zootaxa

Volume

4033

Issue

1

Number of Pages

129-136

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4033.1.7

Socpus ID

84944676377 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84944676377

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