A new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala, southern India

We here describe Sitana attenboroughii sp. nov., a new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala in southern India. The new species morphologically is closer to Sitana visiri Deepak, 2016 (in Deepak et al. 2016a), however, differs in having higher numbers of...

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Published inZootaxa Vol. 4374; no. 4; p. 545
Main Authors Sadasivan, Kalesh, Ramesh, M B, Palot, Muhamed Jafer, Ambekar, Mayuresh, Mirza, Zeeshan A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Zealand 21.01.2018
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Reptilia, taxonomy, India, molecular phylogeny, mitochondrial DNA, Kerala
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Summary:We here describe Sitana attenboroughii sp. nov., a new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala in southern India. The new species morphologically is closer to Sitana visiri Deepak, 2016 (in Deepak et al. 2016a), however, differs in having higher numbers of ventral scales and a comparatively short but richly colored dewlap. Genetically the new species shows affinity to Sitana marudhamneydhal Deepak, Khandekar, Varma Chaitanya, 2016 from which it differs in an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 2.2% for a fragment of mitochondrial Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase (NADH) subunit 2 gene.
ISSN:1175-5334
DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4374.4.5