CerÍaco Luis M P, Agarwal Ishan, Marques Mariana P, Bauer Aaron M
Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto, Praça de Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal Departamento de Zoologia e Antropologia (Museu Bocage), Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269-102 Lisboa, Portugal Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085-1699, USA.
Zootaxa. 2020 Oct 15;4861(1):zootaxa.4861.1.6. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.6.
A correction to the recent revision of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 from Angola is presented. The previous revision assigned some historical specimens to H. bayonii and H. nzingae, with one specimen even being considered a paratype of the latter taxon. A review of the morphological data of all of the specimens used in the previous study found that two other undescribed taxa, morphologically similar to H. bayonii and H. nzingae, respectively, were overlooked. We here present a re-description of these specimens and provide the diagnostic characters that allow their recognition as two new species, both endemic to Angola. In order to provide an accurate picture of the diversity of Hemidactylus in the country and to correct our previous misidentifications that could lead to some taxonomic instability, we herein describe H. hannasabinae sp. nov. and H. vernayi sp. nov.
本文对近期关于1820年戈德富斯所定半叶趾虎属（Hemidactylus）来自安哥拉物种的修订进行了修正。先前的修订将一些历史标本归入巴氏半叶趾虎（H. bayonii）和恩氏半叶趾虎（H. nzingae），甚至有一个标本被视为后一分类单元的副模式标本。对先前研究中所用所有标本的形态学数据进行重新审视后发现，另外两个未描述的分类单元被忽视了，它们在形态上分别与巴氏半叶趾虎和恩氏半叶趾虎相似。我们在此重新描述这些标本，并提供诊断特征，以便将它们识别为两个新物种，二者均为安哥拉特有。为了准确呈现该国半叶趾虎属的多样性，并纠正我们先前可能导致分类不稳定的错误鉴定，我们在此描述新物种汉娜萨宾半叶趾虎（H. hannasabinae sp. nov.）和韦氏半叶趾虎（H. vernayi sp. nov.）。
