| Literature DB >> 25283657 |
Vanessa Aguirre-Peñafiel1, Omar Torres-Carvajal2, Pedro M Sales Nunes3, Mika R Peck4, Simon T Maddock5.
Abstract
A new species of Riama lizard from the western slopes of the Andes in northern Ecuador is described herein. Morphologically, Riama yumborum sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other congenerics by having an incomplete nasoloreal suture and a cylindrical hemipenial body with diagonally orientated flounces on its lateral aspect. Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA support the monophyly of the new species and its sister taxon relationship with R. labionis, which occurs allopatrically.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25283657 DOI： 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Zootaxa ISSN： 1175-5326 Impact factor: 1.091