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Issue: Vol. 2657 No. 1: 26 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2657.1.4
Page range: 47–54
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of night lizard of the genus Lepidophyma (Squamata: Xantusiidae) from southern Puebla, México

Laboratorio de Herpetología, Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70-399, C. P. 04510, México, D. F., México
Laboratorio de Herpetología, Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70-399, C. P. 04510, México, D. F., México
Red de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Carretera antigua a Coatepec Km. 2.5, Congregación El Haya, Xalapa Veracruz, México
Reptilia Lepidophyma zongolica sp. nov. new species Xantusiidae México Puebla

Abstract

A new species of Lepidophyma is described from the Sierra Negra in southern Puebla. This new species is known only from the type locality and is characterized by a combination of several characters (number of dorsal scales, total of femoral pores, number of lateral tubercles, number the dorsal interwhorls separated the whorls, number of the paravertebral rows, number of the toe lamellae and number of gulars). It lives between rocks in remnants of Tropical Evergreen Forest. The description of this new species increases the number of species in the genus to 19.

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