A New Species of the Genus Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Northeastern Guangxi, China.

ABSTRACT: During our collecting trip to Guangxi in 2016, we collected ten specimens of the genus Takydromus from the suburb of Guilin, northeastern Guangxi, South China, and found that they did not belong to any currently known species. Here, we described this new species, Takydromus guilinensis sp. nov., based on morphological and mitochondrial DNA (CO1 and cyt b) data. This new species is a sister taxon to T. intermedius with a p-distance of 0.070 in CO1 and 0.080 in cyt b. These two p-distances exceed not only the minimum value (0.067) between T. septentrionalis and T. stejnegeri but also the minimum value (0.079) between T. intermedius and T. yunkaiensis. Morphologically, this new species differs from othe

SUBMITTER: Guo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11117235 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature