Title
An elusive new species of gymnophthalmid lizard (Cercosaurinae, Selvasaura) from the Andes of northern Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Pensoft Publishers
Abstract
We describe a new species of Selvasaura from the montane forests of the eastern slopes of the Andes in northern Peru, based on external and hemipenial morphological characters and previous phylogenetic analyses. The new species can be differentiated from the other two Selvasaura species in having keeled dorsal scales usually flanked by longitudinal striations, in adults and juveniles; adult males with a yellow vertebral stripe bordered by broad dark brown stripes on each side and a unilobed hemipenis surrounded by the branches of the sulcus spermaticus. The description of the new species contributes information about new states of diagnostic characters of Selvasaura and natural history.
Start page
177
End page
187
Volume
5
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85112335059
Source
Evolutionary Systematics
ISSN of the container
25350730
Sponsor(s)
fieldwork supported by: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and Fondo de Promoción de las Áreas Natu-rales Protegidas del Perú (PROFONANPE) with the projects: Updating the status of an endemic harlequin frog from Peru (project number CEPF-108792) and Community forest conservation in the northeastern biodiversity corridor in Peru (project number CEPF-66127); APECO under the research grant “Carlos Ponce del Prado Award (XI edition)”; Global Genome Initiative (GGBN–GGI); and NGO´s Ucumari and Yunkawasi. Fieldwork would not have been possible without the logistic support of the following people: Marco Salas from Ucumari, Fanny M. Cornejo from Yunkawasi, Odile Sanchez from PROFONANPE, Mariela Leo and Glen Seitz from APECO. We are especially grateful with our field companions: LYE is indebted to Andy Barboza, Joaquín Briones, and Marco Salas; AGA is indebted to Jesús Ormeño; PJV is indebted to Juan C. Chávez. PJV is grateful to Rainforest Partnership for funding his herpetological research during 2021. PMSN is supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq (fellowship number 313622/2018-3). The authors are grateful to William W. Lamar for revising the English language of the manuscript. The authors are grateful to the Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) – Center of Natural History – University of Hamburg for supporting the publication of Evolutionary Systematics.
The new species of Selvasaura was discovered during fieldwork supported by: Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and Fondo de Promoción de las Áreas Naturales Protegidas del Perú (PROFONANPE) with the projects: Updating the status of an endemic harlequin frog from Peru (project number CEPF-108792) and Community forest conservation in the northeastern biodiversity corridor in Peru (project number CEPF-66127); APECO under the research grant "Carlos Ponce del Prado Award (XI edition)"; Global Genome Initiative (GGBN-GGI); and NGO's Ucumari and Yunkawasi. Fieldwork would not have been possible without the logistic support of the following people: Marco Salas from Ucumari, Fanny M. Cornejo from Yunkawasi, Odile Sanchez from PROFONANPE, Mariela Leo and Glen Seitz from APECO. We are especially grateful with our field companions: LYE is indebted to Andy Barboza, Joaquín Briones, and Marco Salas; AGA is indebted to Jesús Ormeño; PJV is indebted to Juan C. Chávez. PJV is grateful to Rainforest Partnership for funding his herpetological research during 2021. PMSN is supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq (fellowship number 313622/2018-3). The authors are grateful to William W. Lamar for revising the English language of the manuscript. The authors are grateful to the Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) - Center of Natural History - University of Hamburg for supporting the publication of Evolutionary Systematics.
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