A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status

A new species of Acanthosaura from Yunnan, China, is described based on morphological and genetic data. The new species can be separated from all other species of the genus by having a different shape of the black eye patch, a different coloration of the postorbital and occipital spines and nuchal c...

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Autores principales: Liu, Shuo, Hou, Mian, Mo, Mingzhong, Rao, Dingqi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32879613
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.959.54601
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description A new species of Acanthosaura from Yunnan, China, is described based on morphological and genetic data. The new species can be separated from all other species of the genus by having a different shape of the black eye patch, a different coloration of the postorbital and occipital spines and nuchal crest, and a different color of the gular pouch. Genetically, uncorrected sequence divergences of COI between the new species and investigated congeners ranged from 16.12% to 24.11%. The conservation status of the new species is also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-74427562020-09-01 A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status Liu, Shuo Hou, Mian Mo, Mingzhong Rao, Dingqi Zookeys Research Article A new species of Acanthosaura from Yunnan, China, is described based on morphological and genetic data. The new species can be separated from all other species of the genus by having a different shape of the black eye patch, a different coloration of the postorbital and occipital spines and nuchal crest, and a different color of the gular pouch. Genetically, uncorrected sequence divergences of COI between the new species and investigated congeners ranged from 16.12% to 24.11%. The conservation status of the new species is also discussed. Pensoft Publishers 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7442756/ /pubmed/32879613 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.959.54601 Text en Shuo Liu, Mian Hou, Mingzhong Mo, Dingqi Rao 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.
spellingShingle Research Article
Liu, Shuo
Hou, Mian
Mo, Mingzhong
Rao, Dingqi
A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status
title A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status
title_full A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status
title_fullStr A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status
title_full_unstemmed A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status
title_short A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status
title_sort new species of the genus acanthosaura (squamata, agamidae) from yunnan, china, with comments on its conservation status
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32879613
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.959.54601
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