Using multilocus approach to uncover cryptic diversity within Pseudotrapelus lizards from Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT: The agamid Pseudotrapelus lizards inhabit the mountainous areas of the Arabian Peninsula and eastern North Africa. Currently six Pseudotrapelus species are recognised, though diagnostic morphological characters are still lacking, creating great difficulty in describing new species. Recently, two specimens of Pseudotrapelus were collected from the vicinity of Riyadh in central Saudi Arabia, an area that was not sampled in previous phylogenetic studies. In here we used both mitochondrial and nuclear data to investigate the phylogenetic position of the new samples, and assess their phylogenetic relationships with the other recognised species of Pseudotrapelus from across the distribution range of the genus. We used a multilocus approach of haplotype networks, concatenated datasets and species

SUBMITTER: Tamar K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6864301 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature