Lobón-Rovira Javier, Conradie Werner, Baptista Ninda L, Vaz Pinto Pedro
CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal.
Zookeys. 2022 Nov 2;1127:91-116. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1127.84942. eCollection 2022.
We here describe a new species of feather-tailed leaf-toed gecko, , from southern Benguela Province, Angola, based on morphological and osteological evidence, supported by phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial data. The new species adds to the rapidly growing and newly-recognised endemic biodiversity of Angola, doubling the number of species, breaking the pattern observed within other closely-related African members of a clade of circum-Indian Ocean leaf-toed geckos - , and - all of which are presently monotypic. The new species is easily distinguished from , based on spine-like (as opposed to feather-like) scales on the margins of the original tail. Phylogenetic analyses also recovered the new taxon as monophyletic, with a well-supported sister relationship to , from which it differs by a substantial 24.1% NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 2 mitochondrial gene uncorrected p-distance.
我们在此基于形态学和骨学证据，并通过线粒体数据的系统发育分析支持，描述了一种来自安哥拉本格拉省南部的新物种——羽尾叶趾虎。该新物种增加了安哥拉迅速增长且新被认可的特有生物多样性，使该属物种数量翻倍，打破了印度洋周边叶趾虎分支中其他密切相关的非洲成员（如 、 和 ，目前均为单型属）所观察到的模式。基于原尾边缘的刺状（而非羽毛状）鳞片，该新物种很容易与 区分开来。系统发育分析还发现新分类单元为单系群，与 有着得到充分支持的姐妹关系，二者在线粒体基因NADH脱氢酶亚基2上有24.1%的未校正p距离差异。
