A new species of wolf snake (Colubridae: Lycodon Fitzinger, 1826) from Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, Cardamom Mountains, southwest Cambodia

Zootaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3814 (1) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
THY NEANG ◽  
TIMO HARTMANN ◽  
SEIHA HUN ◽  
NICHOLAS J. SOUTER ◽  
NEIL M. FUREY
Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4683 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
PERRY L., JR. WOOD ◽  
EVAN S. H. QUAH ◽  
SHAHRUL ANUAR ◽  
NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV ◽  
...  

Molecular phylogenetic analyses of the sister species Sphenomorphus stellatus and S. praesignis based on the mitochondrial genes 12S and 16S rRNA recover the former as paraphyletic with respect to the latter in that a specimen of S. stellatus from the type locality in Peninsular Malaysia is more closely related to S. praesignis than to Indochinese populations of S. stellatus. Furthermore, the phylogeny indicates that the Indochinese populations represent two species, thus resulting in four major lineages within this clade. These relationships are consistent with multivariate and univariate analyses of morphological and discrete color pattern data which statistically define and diagnose the four lineages and together with the molecular data, provide the foundation for robust, testable, species-level hypotheses. As such, S. stellatus is herein restricted to Peninsular Malaysia; S. annamiticus is resurrected for the circum-continental populations ranging through southeastern Thailand, southern Cambodia, and southern Vietnam; a new species—S. preylangensis sp. nov.—is described from an isolated mountain, Phnom Chi, from the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in central Cambodia; and the taxonomy of S. praesignis remains unchanged. The description of S. preylangensis sp. nov. underscores the necessity to conserve this remnant of lowland evergreen rainforest in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4623 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
PERRY L. JR. WOOD ◽  
EVAN S. H. QUAH ◽  
MYINT KYAW THURA ◽  
MARK W. HERR ◽  
...  

A herpetological survey of the Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary in Kachin State, Myanmar resulted in the discovery of a new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray along the eastern watershed of the Mokso Mountains. An integrative taxonomic analysis based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene, morphology, and color pattern recovered this new species, Cyrtodactylus mombergi sp. nov., as the sister taxon to an undescribed species from Miao, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses recovered notable genetically divergent (4.7%) phylogeographic structure between northern and southern populations of C. mombergi sp. nov. across only 14 km of continuous habitat. Conversely, genetic divergence did not exceed 9.2% between C. mombergi sp. nov. and the undescribed species from Miao from across 355 km of habitat. Cyrtodactylus mombergi sp. nov. belongs to a well-supported, mitochondrial clade of 18 other species which now compose an expanded and redefined C. gansi group. Cyrtodactylus mombergi sp. nov. is only the third species of Bent-toed Gecko reported from Kachin State and indicates that additional herpetological surveys are needed in unexplored forested areas. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3388 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
THY NEANG ◽  
L. LEE GRISMER ◽  
JENNIFER C. DALTRY

A new species of kukri snake Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 is described from the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, Carda-mom Mountains, southwest Cambodia. Oligodon kampucheaensis sp. nov. differs from other Indochinese and SoutheastAsian species of Oligodon by having 15–15–15 dorsal scale rows; 164 ventral scales; 39 subcaudal scales; anal plate un-divided; deep bifurcated hemipenes, lacking papillae and spines extending to subcaudal scale 11; 17 transverse cream andblack-edged bands on body; three bands on tail; eight or nine scales long between dorsal bands; white ventrolateral spotson the lateral margin of every dark brown squarish or subrectangular ventral blotch. The hemipenial characters place it asthe tenth species of the O. cyclurus group but it has a lower dorsal scale count than other species in this group. The dis-covery of this species from the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary increases the number of kukri snakes for Cambodia to ten and indicates the importance of additional field studies in the Cardamom Mountains.


2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-411
Author(s):  
R. G. Vadhyar ◽  
J. H. F. Benjamin ◽  
K. A. Sujana

Memecylon nervosum Vadhyar, J.H.F.Benj. & Sujana, a new species of Melastomataceae from the Kanyakumari Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India, is described and illustrated. It is compared with the closely allied Memecylon heyneanum Benth. and Memecylon jambosioides Wight.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 308 (2) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
MOAAKUM MOA ◽  
SANTANU DEY ◽  
WOJCIECH ADAMOWSKI ◽  
RAJIB GOGOI

Impatiens nagorum from Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagaland, Northeast India, is described and illustrated. Detailed descriptions, distribution, and ecological information, along with colour photographs of the plant, as well as micromorphology of seeds and pollen grains under scanning electron microscope (SEM) are presented.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 303 (3) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
ALOOR JOSE ROBI ◽  
PUNNAKKAL SREEDHARAN UDAYAN ◽  
HSI-WEN LI ◽  
JIE LI

A new species of Litsea from India is described and illustrated. Litsea indoverticillata is recognized from the Malabar Wildlife sanctuary of Nilgiri phytogeographical zone of southern Western Ghats. It is distinguished from the closely related L. quinqueflora and L. verticillata by straggling shrub habit; 7–15 mm long, glabrous petiole, chartaceous and glabrous leaves, glabrous midrib; 15–24 pairs of lateral veins; solitary, glabrous, and pruinose inflorescence; greenish-white to whitish flowers.


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4838 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-297
Author(s):  
SANJAY SONDHI ◽  
DIPENDRA NATH BASU ◽  
YASH SONDHI ◽  
KRUSHNAMEGH KUNTE

A new species, Metallolophia taleensis, sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Lower Subansiri District, Arunachal Pradesh, India, based on male specimens. A second species, Metallolophia opalina (Warren, 1893), is recorded from India after more than a century, extending its range eastwards into Arunachal Pradesh, India. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4337 (4) ◽  
pp. 509
Author(s):  
DEVANSHU GUPTA ◽  
KAILASH CHANDRA

Tropiorhynchus annandalei new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini: Anisopliina) from Bhimshankar Wildlife Sanctuary, Pune district, Maharashtra State, India is described, diagnosed, and illustrated. The new species is compared with all its congeners: Tropiorhynchus orientis (Newman, 1838), T. podagricus (Burmeister, 1844), and T. umbrinus Machatschke, 1954. The newly described species differs from all its congeners by the unique structure of aedeagus, sculpturing of pronotum, medially smooth pygidial surface, and elytral markings. An illustrated key to the species of the genus Tropiorhynchus Blanchard, 1851 is also provided. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4323 (2) ◽  
pp. 185 ◽  
Author(s):  
YASH SONDHI ◽  
IAN J. KITCHING ◽  
DIPENDRA NATH BASU ◽  
KRUSHNAMEGH KUNTE

A new species of the genus Theretra Hübner [1819], Theretra shendurneensis sp. nov., is described from Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, southern Western Ghats, India, based on external and internal morphology, and genetic markers. The new species is compared in external and male genital morphology, genetic divergence and geographic range with three similar and closely related species: T. boisduvalii (Bugnion, 1839), T. sumatrensis (Joicey and Kaye, 1917) and T. rhesus (Boisduval, [1875]). Recent changes to the classification of Theretra are discussed and rejected. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4822 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-450
Author(s):  
SUNIL KUMAR GUPTA ◽  
KAILASH CHANDRA ◽  
HAI-XIANG YIN

Tagasta mizoramensis sp. nov. is described from Dampa Wildlife Sanctuary, Mizoram, India. The type specimens are deposited in the Central Entomological Laboratory, Zoological survey of India. 


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