TitleA new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala, southern India
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsSadasivan K, Ramesh M.B, Palot MJafer, Ambekar M, Mirza Z.A
JournalZOOTAXA
Volume4374
Issue4
Pagination545-564
Date Published01/2018
Abstract

We here describe Sitana attenboroughii sp. nov., a new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala in southern India. The new species morphologically is closer to Sitana visiri Deepak, 2016 (in Deepak et al. 2016a), however, differs in having higher numbers of ventral scales and a comparatively short but richly colored dewlap. Genetically the new species shows affinity to Sitana marudhamneydhal Deepak, Khandekar, Varma & Chaitanya, 2016 from which it differs in an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 2.2% for a fragment of mitochondrial Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase (NADH) subunit 2 gene

DOI10.11646/zootaxa.4374.4.5