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Issue: Vol. 4527 No. 2: 5 Dec. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.2.2
Page range: 186–196
Abstract views: 101
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of Brasilotyphlus (Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) and a contribution to the knowledge of the relationship between Microcaecilia and Brasilotyphlus

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Av. Professor Moraes Rego, s/n. 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Setor de Biodiversidade, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Tabuleiro, 57072-970, Maceió, AL, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Av. Professor Moraes Rego, s/n. 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, R. Augusto Corrêa, nº 1, Guamá, 66075-110, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Rua do Matão, São Paulo 05422-970, Brazil
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversit Biologique (EDB), UMR5174, Toulouse, France.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Rua do Matão, São Paulo 05422-970, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Setor de Biodiversidade, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Tabuleiro, 57072-970, Maceió, AL, Brazil
Amphibia Brazil caecilians phylogeny taxonomy

Abstract

A third species of Brasilotyphlus, a siphonopid caecilian, is described based on six specimens from two twin mountains in Roraima state, northern Brazil. Brasilotyphlus dubium sp. nov. differs from all other congeners in having a combination of 123–129 primary annuli and 9–16 secondary annular grooves. The first molecular data were generated and analyzed for Brasilotyphlus, and the genus was recovered as monophyletic and nested within a paraphyletic Microcaecilia. The extent of genetic and taxonomic sampling, and moderate phylogenetic support are not considered sufficient enough to place Brasilotyphlus in the synonymy of Microcaecilia.

 

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