Meneses-Pelayo Elson, Ramírez Juan P
Grupo de Estudios en Anfibios y Reptiles de Santander (GEARS), Universidad Industrial de Santander, Carrera 27, Calle 9, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia..
Zootaxa. 2020 Jan 29;4729(2):zootaxa.4729.2.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.4.
We describe a new sphaerodactylid lizard of the genus Gonatodes from the western flank of the Cordillera Oriental, Santander Department, Colombia based on morphological and molecular data. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by having a medium body size, by the absence of both a supraciliary spine and of clusters of distinctly enlarged conical scales on the sides and by having a subcaudal scale pattern (1'1") and a cryptic dorsal color pattern in both sexes. Additionally, we describe for the first time the hemipenial morphology for a species of the genus. The new species increases the number of Gonatodes known from Colombia to eight and is the only known species of the country, as well as the second known mainland species of the genus not exhibiting sexual dichromatism.
我们基于形态学和分子数据，描述了一种来自哥伦比亚桑坦德省东方山脉西侧的球趾虎属新球趾虎蜥蜴。该新物种与所有同属物种的区别在于，它体型中等，既没有眉上棘，身体两侧也没有明显增大的锥形鳞片簇，并且两性都具有尾下鳞模式（1'1"）和隐秘的背部颜色模式。此外，我们首次描述了该属一个物种的半阴茎形态。这个新物种使哥伦比亚已知的球趾虎属物种数量增加到八个，是该国唯一已知的物种，也是该属第二个已知的大陆物种，且不表现出两性异色。
