Abstract Using an integrative dataset of both mitochondrial DNA and morphological data, we describe a new species of the genus Acanthosaura from the China-Myanmar border region in Menglian County, Pu’er, Yunnan Province, China. The new species, Acanthosaura aurantiogularissp. nov., is sister to A. tongbiguanensis, and...
Kai Wang, Zhuo-Yu Lu, Gui-Yuan Zhao et al.· ZooKeys· 0 citations
The Indochinese biodiversity hotspot is portrayed as a dynamic evolutionary system where cycles of fragmentation and reconnection have repeatedly reshaped lineage boundaries, and the complex phylogeographic structure recovered exemplifies the urgent need for taxonomic revisions.
C. Dufresnes, A. V. Trofimets, V. Gorin et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
A revised taxonomy of the red bamboo ratsnake is proposed that integrates genomic evidence with morphological data, and it is proposed that the species comprises at least four highly divergent, geographically structured lineages (five in the mtDNA phylogeny).