A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico

Abstract. A new species of Xenosaurus in the X. tzacualtipantecus clade is described from the Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Puebla, Mexico. The new species differs from all of its congeners in possessing a unique combination of characters. The new species appears to be allopatric and fills in th...

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Autores principales: de Oca, Adrián Nieto-Montes, Sánchez-Vega, Helder, Durán-Fuentes, Itzel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5904495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29674877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.737.15095
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Sánchez-Vega, Helder
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description Abstract. A new species of Xenosaurus in the X. tzacualtipantecus clade is described from the Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Puebla, Mexico. The new species differs from all of its congeners in possessing a unique combination of characters. The new species appears to be allopatric and fills in the geographic gap between the geographic distributions of X. tzacualtipantecus and the species in the newmanorum clade to the north and northwest and those of the species in the grandis and rackhami clades to the south and southeast. The new species occurs between approximately 880 m and 1470 m of elevation, and appears to be restricted to cloud forest, which has been replaced by coffee plantations in many areas. An updated key to the species of Xenosaurus is provided.
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spelling pubmed-59044952018-04-19 A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico de Oca, Adrián Nieto-Montes Sánchez-Vega, Helder Durán-Fuentes, Itzel Zookeys Research Article Abstract. A new species of Xenosaurus in the X. tzacualtipantecus clade is described from the Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Puebla, Mexico. The new species differs from all of its congeners in possessing a unique combination of characters. The new species appears to be allopatric and fills in the geographic gap between the geographic distributions of X. tzacualtipantecus and the species in the newmanorum clade to the north and northwest and those of the species in the grandis and rackhami clades to the south and southeast. The new species occurs between approximately 880 m and 1470 m of elevation, and appears to be restricted to cloud forest, which has been replaced by coffee plantations in many areas. An updated key to the species of Xenosaurus is provided. Pensoft Publishers 2018-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5904495/ /pubmed/29674877 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.737.15095 Text en Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Helder Sánchez-Vega, Itzel Durán-Fuentes http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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de Oca, Adrián Nieto-Montes
Sánchez-Vega, Helder
Durán-Fuentes, Itzel
A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico
title A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico
title_full A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico
title_fullStr A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico
title_short A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico
title_sort new species of knob-scaled lizard (xenosauridae, xenosaurus) from the sierra madre oriental of puebla, mexico
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5904495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29674877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.737.15095
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