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A New Species of Diploderma (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) from Yunnan Nangunhe National Nature Reserve, China

Shuo Liu, Zhimin Li, Tong Yang, Mian Hou, Dingqi Rao, Natalia Borisovna Ananjeva

Abstract


A new forest-dwelling species of the genus Diploderma is described from Yunnan Province, China. The new species morphologically closely resembles and is phylogenetically sister to D. menghaiense. It can be distinguished from D. menghaiense by having a relatively longer tail, fewer nuchal crest scales, distinct black stripes on ventral head, and a relatively smaller proportion of orange area on gular pouch. The genetic distance between the new species and D. menghaiense was 6.7% in ND2 gene sequences. This study brings the total number of species within the genus Diploderma to 49.

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Gengma County; China; morphology; ND2; systematics; taxonomy

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2024-31-6-379-391

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