A new species of the Cyrtodactylusbrevipalmatus group (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Tak Province, northwestern Thailand.

ABSTRACT: An integrative taxonomic analysis was used to delimit and diagnose a new species of the Cyrtodactylusbrevipalmatus group from Tak Province in western Thailand. Although Bayesian phylogenetic analyses place C.denticulatussp. nov. within the brevipalmatus group, the new species is neither nested within nor is it the sister species of any other species in the brevipalmatus group. Furthermore, based on the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 gene (ND2) and adjacent tRNAs, it bears an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 7.87-21.94% from all other species in the brevipalmatus group. Cyrtodactylusdenticulatussp. nov. is differetiated from all other species in the brevipalmatus group by having a number of unique charater

SUBMITTER: Chomdej S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242404 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature