A new species of the Cyrtodactylusbrevipalmatus group (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the uplands of western Thailand.

ABSTRACT: An integrative systematic analysis recovered a new species of the Cyrtodactylusbrevipalmatus group from the uplands of Thong Pha Phum National Park, Kanchanaburi Province in western Thailand. Cyrtodactylusthongphaphumensissp. nov. is deeply embedded within the brevipalmatus group, bearing an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 7.6-22.3% from all other species based on a 1,386 base pair segment of the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 gene (ND2) and adjacent tRNAs. It is diagnosable from all other species in the brevipalmatus group by statistically significant mean differences in meristic and normalized morphometric characters as well as differences in categorical morphology. A multiple factor analysis recovered its unique and non-overlapp

SUBMITTER: Grismer LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10207280 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature