Grismer L Lee, Wood P L, Lee Cheol Haeng, Quah Evan S H, Anuar Shahrul, Ngadi Ehwan, Sites Jack W
Department of Biology La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California, 92515 USA.; Email:
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 150 East Bulldog Boulevard, Provo, Utah 84602 USA.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 20;3948(1):1-23. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.1.
An integrative taxonomic analysis is used to identify and describe two new species of the agamid genus Bronchocela (Kuhl) from Peninsular Malaysia: an upland species B. shenlong sp. nov. from Bukit Larut, Perak in the Bintang Mountain Range and Parit Falls, Cameron Highlands, Pahang in the Titiwangsa Mountain Range and an insular species, B. rayaensis sp. nov., from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah off the northwest coast on the border with Thailand. Both species are diagnosed from each other and all other species of Bronchocela on the basis of body shape, scale morphology, and color pattern. The analysis also demonstrates the remarkable genetic similarity of B. cristatella (Kuhl) throughout 1120 km of its range from northern Peninsular Malaysia to western Borneo despite its highly variable coloration and pattern. The two new species are appended to a rapidly growing list of newly described lizard species (60 to date) from Peninsular Malaysia tallied within the last decade.
一项综合分类学分析用于识别和描述来自马来西亚半岛的变色树蜥属（库尔）的两个新物种：一个高地物种，即来自霹雳州武吉拉鲁的神山变色树蜥（Bronchocela shenlong sp. nov.），位于槟榔山脉；以及来自彭亨州金马仑高原帕立瀑布的神山变色树蜥，位于大汉山山脉；还有一个岛屿物种，即来自吉打州兰卡威岛的拉亚变色树蜥（Bronchocela rayaensis sp. nov.），该岛位于与泰国接壤的西北海岸外。这两个物种通过体型、鳞片形态和颜色模式相互区分，并与变色树蜥属的所有其他物种相区分。该分析还表明，尽管饰纹变色树蜥（Bronchocela cristatella，库尔）的颜色和图案变化很大，但其在从马来西亚半岛北部到婆罗洲西部长达1120公里的分布范围内具有显著的遗传相似性。这两个新物种被添加到过去十年中马来西亚半岛新描述蜥蜴物种（迄今为止有60种）的快速增长名单中。
