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Fouquet A, Kok PJR, Recoder RS, Prates I, Camacho A, Marques-Souza S, Ghellere JM, McDiarmid RW, Rodrigues MT. Relicts in the mist: Two new frog families, genera and species highlight the role of Pantepui as a biodiversity museum throughout the Cenozoic. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2024; 191:107971. [PMID: 38000706 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
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The iconic mountains of the Pantepui biogeographical region host many early-diverging endemic animal and plant lineages, concurring with Conan Doyle's novel about an ancient "Lost World". While this is the case of several frog lineages, others appear to have more recent origins, adding to the controversy around the diversification processes in this region. Due to its remoteness, Pantepui is challenging for biological surveys, and only a glimpse of its biodiversity has been described, which hampers comprehensive evolutionary studies in many groups. During a recent expedition to the Neblina massif on the Brazil-Venezuela border, we sampled two new frog species that could not be assigned to any known genus. Here, we perform phylogenetic analyses of mitogenomic and nuclear loci to infer the evolutionary relationships of the new taxa and support their description. We find that both species represent single lineages deeply nested within Brachycephaloidea, a major Neotropical clade of direct-developing frogs. Both species diverged >45 Ma from their closest relatives: the first is sister to all other Brachycephaloidea except for Ceuthomantis, another Pantepui endemic, and the second is sister to Brachycephalidae, endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. In addition to these considerable phylogenetic and biogeographic divergences, external morphology and osteological features support the proposition of two new family and genus-level taxa to accommodate these new branches of the amphibian tree of life. These findings add to other recently described ancient vertebrate lineages from the Neblina massif, providing a bewildering reminder that our perception of the Pantepui's biodiversity remains vastly incomplete. It also provides insights into how these mountains acted as "museums" during the diversification of Brachycephaloidea and of Neotropical biotas more broadly, in line with the influential "Plateau theory". Finally, these discoveries point at the yet unknown branches of the tree of life that may go extinct, due to global climate change and zoonotic diseases, before we even learn about their existence, amphibians living at higher elevations being particularly at risk.
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- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse, France.
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, 12/16 Banacha Str., Łódź 90-237, Poland; Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013, USA
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Kok PJR, Broholm TL, Mebs D. Thriving in a hostile world: Insights from the dietary strategy of two allopatric, closely related tepui summit endemic amphibians. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:8730-8742. [PMID: 34257924 PMCID: PMC8258209 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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To date, there has been no published investigation on the trophic diversity in any tepui summit vertebrate. In this paper, we analyzed the dietary composition of a tepui summit endemic toad, Oreophrynella quelchii from Roraima-tepui, and compared it with that of O. nigra from Kukenán-tepui, to examine to what extent diet differs between these two sister species across isolated, although neighboring, tepui tops. The digestive tracts of a total of 197 toads were dissected: 111 from O. quelchii and 86 from O. nigra. The diet composition of O. quelchii was relatively diverse, with 13 major prey categories; mites (Acari, 36.5%) and beetles (Coleoptera, 21.0%) numerically dominated its diet. Despite occurring on two different tepui summits, O. quelchii and O. nigra exhibited a similar diet composition, although in O. nigra mites (Acari, 42.4%) and hymenopterans (especially ants, 16.9%) numerically dominated the diet. The present data suggest that tepui summit Oreophrynella species are flexible in their diet and are active foragers that also feed on aquatic arthropods, successful strategies in tepui competitive environments.
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- Philippe J. R. Kok
- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate ZoologyUniversity of ŁódźŁódźPoland
- The Natural History MuseumLondonUK
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- Institute of Legal MedicineGoethe University of FrankfurtFrankfurtGermany
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Recoder R, Prates I, Marques-Souza S, Camacho A, Nunes PMS, Dal Vechio F, Ghellere JM, McDiarmid RW, Rodrigues MT. Lizards from the Lost World: two new species and evolutionary relationships of the Pantepui highland Riolama (Gymnophthalmidae). Zool J Linn Soc 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The Pantepui region of northern South America harbours an endemic fauna that differs dramatically from those of the surrounding lowland rainforests and savannas. A component of this unique fauna is Riolama, a poorly known genus of microteiid lizards with four described and two undescribed species restricted to tepui mountains. We here implement an integrative approach to formally describe the two unnamed species and investigate the phylogenetic relationships and timing of diversification in Riolama using a fossil-calibrated molecular approach. Our results suggest that diversification initiated in Riolama during the Oligocene (c. 28 Mya), thereby characterizing the genus as an ancient lineage. This supports the Plateau biogeographic hypothesis to explain the diversification of the Pantepui fauna. Our divergence time estimation analysis also provides an updated temporal framework for the diversification of the highly diverse Gymnophthalmidae clade.
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- Renato Recoder
- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Fang JM, Vásquez-Restrepo JD, Daza JM. Filling the gaps in a highly diverse Neotropical lizard lineage: a new and endemic genus of Cercosaurinae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with the description of two new species from the Northern Andes of Colombia. SYST BIODIVERS 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1783714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- José M. Fang
- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle 67 # 53-108, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle 67 # 53-108, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle 67 # 53-108, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
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Gomides SC, Junior MT, Leal F, Thomassen H, Cassimiro J, Recoder RS, Pinto HBDA, Rodrigues MT, Leite FSF. Redescription and Geographical Distribution of a Rare Microteiid Lizard: Rhachisaurus brachylepis (Dixon, 1974) (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-17-00078.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Samuel C. Gomides
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, CEP 31270‑901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, CEP 05508‑090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, CEP 31270‑901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, CEP 31270‑901, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, CEP 05508‑090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, CEP 05508‑090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Rua 229, 95, Leste Universitário, CEP 74605‑090, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, CEP 05508‑090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Campus Florestal, CEP 35690‑000, Florestal, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Vásquez-Restrepo JD, Ibáñez R, Sánchez-Pacheco SJ, Daza JM. Phylogeny, taxonomy and distribution of the Neotropical lizard genus Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with the recognition of two new genera in Cercosaurinae. Zool J Linn Soc 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The family Gymnophthalmidae is a highly diverse Neotropical lizard clade. Although multiple phylogenetic and taxonomic studies have reshaped our understanding of gymnophthalmid systematics and diversity, many groups remain understudied. This is the case for the cercosaurine genus Echinosaura, which includes eight species of small riparian lizards distributed across lower Central America and northern South America. Here, we present a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Echinosaura, including DNA data for all species of the genus for the first time. To rigorously test the relationships of all Echinosaura, we have assembled the largest molecular dataset of cercosaurine lizards to date. Our analysis refutes the monophyly of Echinosaura, with E. apodema and E. sulcarostrum not closely related to the remaining species. To remedy the polyphyly of Echinosaura, we describe two new genera for E. apodema and E. sulcarostrum. Morphological distinctiveness and biogeography further support these taxonomic changes. In light of our phylogenetic results, we review the species-level taxonomy of the redefined Echinosaura based on morphological and genetic variation. We resurrect E. centralis and designate a neotype given the absence of type and topotypic material. In addition, we provide taxonomic accounts for each species and analyse their patterns of geographic distribution.
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- Juan D Vásquez-Restrepo
- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia (GHA), Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle, laboratorio, Medellín, Colombia
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, Republic of Panama
- Sistema Nacional de Investigación, Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT), Apartado, Panamá, Republic of Panama
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia (GHA), Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, calle, laboratorio, Medellín, Colombia
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Moravec J, Šmíd J, Štundl J, Lehr E. Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. Zookeys 2018; 774:105-139. [PMID: 30057466 PMCID: PMC6056569 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.774.25332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Cercosaurine lizards (subfamily Cercosaurinae of the family Gymnophthalmidae) represent a substantial component of the reptile fauna in the Neotropics. Several attempts have been made to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships within this group, but most studies focused on particular genera or regions and did not cover the subfamily as a whole. In this study, material from the montane forests of Peru was newly sequenced. In combination with all cercosaurine sequences available on GenBank, an updated phylogeny of Cercosaurinae is provided. Monophyly was not supported for three of the currently recognised genera (Echinosaura, Oreosaurus, and Proctoporus). The genus Proctoporus is formed by five monophyletic groups, which should be used in future taxonomic revisions as feasible entities. Recognition of two previously identified undescribed clades (Unnamed clades 2 and 3) was supported and yet another undescribed clade (termed here Unnamed clade 4), which deserves recognition as an independent genus, was identified herein. Selvasaura brava, a new genus and new species of arboreal gymnophthalmid lizard is described from the montane forests of the Pui Pui Protected Forest, Provincia de Chanchamayo, Región Junín, Peru. The new species is characterised by its small size (SVL 42.1-45.9 mm), slender body, smooth head shields, presence of paired prefrontal shields, fused anteriormost supraocular and anteriormost superciliary shields, transparent not divided lower palpebral disc, slightly rugose subimbricate rectangular dorsal scales in adults (slightly keeled in juveniles), distinctly smaller but non-granular lateral scales, smooth squared to rectangular ventral scales, and hemipenial lobes large, distinct from the hemipenial body. Phylogenetic affinities of the new genus to the other cercosaurine genera, as well as basal phylogenetic relationships between the other cercosaurine genera remain unresolved.
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- Jiří Moravec
- Department of Zoology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, P.O. Box 2900, IL 61701, USA
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Sánchez-Pacheco SJ, Torres-Carvajal O, Aguirre-Peñafiel V, Nunes PMS, Verrastro L, Rivas GA, Rodrigues MT, Grant T, Murphy RW. Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna. Cladistics 2018; 34:260-291. [PMID: 34645080 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Riama is the most speciose genus of the Neotropical lizard family Gymnophthalmidae. Its more than 30 montane species occur throughout the northern Andes, the Cordillera de la Costa (CC) in Venezuela, and Trinidad. We present the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Riama to date based on a total evidence (TE) approach and direct optimization of molecular and morphological evidence. Analyses use DNA sequences from four loci and 35 phenotypic characters. The dataset consists of 55 ingroup terminals representing 25 of the 30 currently recognized species of Riama plus five undescribed taxa, including an endemic species from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM) in Colombia, and 66 outgroup terminals of 47 species. Analysis results in a well-supported hypothesis in which Riama is polyphyletic, with its species falling into three clades. The Tepuian Anadia mcdiarmidi nests within one clade of Riama, and the recently resurrected Pantodactylus nests within Cercosaura. Accordingly, we propose a monophyletic taxonomy that reflects historical relationships. Analysis of character evolution indicates that the presence/absence of prefrontals-a cornerstone of the early genus-level taxonomy of cercosaurines-is optimally explained as having been plesiomorphically present in the most recent common ancestor of Cercosaurinae and lost in that of the immediately less inclusive clade. Multiple independent reversals to present and subsequent returns to absent occur within this clade. To evaluate the impact of phenotypic evidence on our results, we compare our TE results with results obtained from analyses using only molecular data. Although phenotypic evidence comprises only 1.2% of the TE matrix, its inclusion alters both the topology and support values of the clades that do not differ. Finally, current phylogenetic evidence reveals a SNSM-CC-Trinidad-tepuis biogeographical link. We hypothesize that an ancient connection facilitated the exchange of species between the SNSM and the CC.
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- Santiago J Sánchez-Pacheco
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.,Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada.,Laboratorio de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS 91540-000, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre y Roca apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre y Roca apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.,Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego S/n, Cidade Universitaria 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS 91540-000, Brazil
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- Museo de Biología, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Apartado Postal 526, Maracaibo, 4011, Estado Zulia, Venezuela
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.,Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada
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Marques-Souza S, Prates I, Fouquet A, Camacho A, Kok PJR, Nunes PMS, Dal Vechio F, Recoder RS, Mejia N, Teixeira Junior M, Barrio-Amorós C, Cassimiro J, Dias Lima J, Aurélio de Sena M, Rodrigues MT. Reconquering the water: Evolution and systematics of South and Central American aquatic lizards (Gymnophthalmidae). ZOOL SCR 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Sergio Marques-Souza
- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology; National Museum of Natural History; Smithsonian Institution; Washington DC USA
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- Laboratoire Écologie, Évolution, Interactions des Systèmes Amazoniens (LEEISA); Université de Guyane, CNRS Guyane; Cayenne French Guiana
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Biology Department; Amphibian Evolution Lab; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussels Belgium
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco; Recife Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá; Núcleo de Biodiversidade; Macapá Amapá Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia; Departamento de Zoologia; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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Kok PJR, Bittenbinder MA, van den Berg JK, Marques-Souza S, Sales Nunes PM, Laking AE, Teixeira M, Fouquet A, Means DB, MacCulloch RD, Rodrigues MT. Integrative taxonomy of the gymnophthalmid lizard Neusticurus rudis Boulenger, 1900 identifies a new species in the eastern Pantepui region, north-eastern South America. J NAT HIST 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1439541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Philippe J. R. Kok
- Amphibian Evolution Lab, Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Poultry disease, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Écologie, Évolution, Interactions des Systèmes Amazoniens (LEEISA), USR 3456 (CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Guyane), Centre de Recherche de Montabo, Cayenne, French Guiana
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- Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Moraes LJ, de Almeida AP, de Fraga R, Rojas RR, Pirani RM, Silva AA, de Carvalho VT, Gordo M, Werneck FP. Integrative overview of the herpetofauna from Serra da Mocidade, a granitic mountain range in northern Brazil. Zookeys 2017; 715:103-159. [PMID: 29302235 PMCID: PMC5740401 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.715.20288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The Brazilian mountain ranges from the Guiana Shield highlands are largely unexplored, with an understudied herpetofauna. Here the amphibian and reptile species diversity of the remote Serra da Mocidade mountain range, located in extreme northern Brazil, is reported upon, and biogeographical affinities and taxonomic highlights are discussed. A 22-days expedition to this mountain range was undertaken during which specimens were sampled at four distinct altitudinal levels (600, 960, 1,060 and 1,365 m above sea level) using six complementary methods. Specimens were identified through an integrated approach that considered morphological, bioacoustical, and molecular analyses. Fifty-one species (23 amphibians and 28 reptiles) were found, a comparable richness to other mountain ranges in the region. The recorded assemblage showed a mixed compositional influence from assemblages typical of other mountain ranges and lowland forest habitats in the region. Most of the taxa occupying the Serra da Mocidade mountain range are typical of the Guiana Shield or widely distributed in the Amazon. Extensions of known distribution ranges and candidate undescribed taxa are also recorded. This is the first herpetofaunal expedition that accessed the higher altitudinal levels of this mountain range, contributing to the basic knowledge of these groups in remote areas.
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- Leandro J.C.L. Moraes
- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 69077-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 69077-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 69077-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos 3000, 69077-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM. Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree‐alignment and similarity‐alignment. Cladistics 2016; 32:624-671. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/28/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Noemí Goicoechea
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales‐CSIC C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology) American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York NY 10024 USA
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales‐CSIC C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de São Paulo Avenida Professor Artur Riedel 275 Diadema São Paulo CEP 09972‐270 Brazil
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- Departament of Biology and M.L. Bean Life Science Museum Brigham Young University Provo UT 84602 USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo CEP: 05508‐090 Brazil
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- Section of Amphibians and Reptiles Carnegie Museum of Natural History 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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Torres-Carvajal O, Lobos SE, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Aguirre-Peñafiel V, Zurita D, Echevarría LY. Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2016; 99:63-75. [PMID: 26975692 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 02/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Nearly 50% of the diversity of the speciose Neotropical lizard clade Gymnophthalmidae is nested within the subclade Cercosaurinae. The taxonomy of Cercosaurinae lizards has been historically confusing because many diagnostic characters of those clades traditionally ranked as genera do not represent true diagnostic apomorphies. Even though molecular phylogenies of several 'genera' have been presented in the last few years, some of them remain poorly sampled (e.g., Anadia, Echinosaura, Potamites, Riama). In this paper we present a more comprehensive phylogeny of Cercosaurinae lizards with emphasis on Andean taxa from Ecuador and Peru, as well as a time-calibrated phylogeny with reconstruction of ancestral areas. Our analysis includes 52% of all recognized species of Cercosaurinae (67 species) and 1914 characters including three mitochondrial and one nuclear gene. We find that Anadia, Echinosaura, Euspondylus, Potamites, Proctoporus, and Riama are not monophyletic: the Tepuian Anadia mcdiarmidi is not sister to Andean species of Anadia; Echinosaura sulcarostrum is not included in the same clade formed by other species of Echinosaura and their more recent common ancestor; Teuchocercus is nested within Echinosaura; species of Euspondylus included in this study are nested within Proctoporus; Riama laudahnae is included in Proctoporus; and Potamites is paraphyletic and split in two separate clades, one of which we name Gelanesaurus, also a new genus-group name. Within Potamites, P. ecpleopus is paraphyletic, and P. strangulatus strangulatus and P. strangulatus trachodus are recognized as two distinct species. We also identify three unnamed clades (i.e., not nested within any of the recognized 'genera') from Andean populations in Ecuador and Peru. The estimated age of the clade Cercosaurinae (∼60Ma) corresponds to the early stages of the northern Andes. Even though the distribution of the most recent common ancestor of Cercosaurinae remains equivocal, our analysis shows that these lizards colonized and radiated along the northern Andes before reaching the central Andes in Peru. Finally, we present phylogenetic definitions for some of the recovered clades to promote a clear and precise classification of Cercosaurinae lizards.
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- Omar Torres-Carvajal
- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre y Roca, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador.
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre y Roca, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Santa Rita N°105 36 Of. 202, Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Surco, Lima, Peru
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- División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Santa Rita N°105 36 Of. 202, Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Surco, Lima, Peru
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre y Roca, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Avenida 12 de Octubre y Roca, Apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- División de Herpetología-Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI), Santa Rita N°105 36 Of. 202, Urb. Huertos de San Antonio, Surco, Lima, Peru
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