A New Species of Microtegu Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from Amazonian Ecuador

Omar Torres-Carvajal; Vanessa Parra; Pedro M. Sales Nunes; Claudia Koch

doi:10.1670/20-142

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Omar Torres-Carvajal,^1,* Vanessa Parra,¹ Pedro M. Sales Nunes,² Claudia Koch³

¹Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre 1076 y Roca, Quito, Ecuador
²Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, s/n. Cidade Universitária CEP 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
³Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany

^*Corresponding author. E-mail: omartorcar@gmail.com

Abstract

We describe a new species of Microtegu lizard (Selvasaura) from the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Ecuador. Among other characters, the new species differs from the only other known species of Selvasaura, namely, Selvasaura brava from Peru, in having more femoral pores in males and a unilobed hemipenis. We present the first description of the skull of Selvasaura, along with a molecular phylogeny of Cercosaurinae and genetic distances as additional evidence supporting delimitation of the new species.

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Omar Torres-Carvajal, Vanessa Parra, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, and Claudia Koch "A New Species of Microtegu Lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from Amazonian Ecuador," Journal of Herpetology 55(4), 385-395, (27 September 2021). https://doi.org/10.1670/20-142

Accepted: 14 April 2021; Published: 27 September 2021

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