Validation and description of two new north-western Australian Rainbow skinks with multispecies coalescent methods and morphology.

ABSTRACT: While methods for genetic species delimitation have noticeably improved in the last decade, this remains a work in progress. Ideally, model based approaches should be applied and considered jointly with other lines of evidence, primarily morphology and geography, in an integrative taxonomy framework. Deep phylogeographic divergences have been reported for several species of Carlia skinks, but only for some eastern taxa have species boundaries been formally tested. The present study does this and revises the taxonomy for two species from northern Australia, Carlia johnstonei and C. triacantha. We introduce an approach that is based on the recently published method StarBEAST2, which uses multilocus data to explore the support for alternative species delimitation hypothes

SUBMITTER: Afonso Silva AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580384 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature