Repeated evolution of sympatric, palaeoendemic species in closely related, co-distributed lineages ofHemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) across a sky-island archipelago in Peninsular Malaysia

• DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12254
• Publication Date: 2015-07-21T05:28:55Z
• Authors: L. Lee Grismer; Perry L. Wood; Shahrul Anuar; Evan S. H. Quah; Mohd Abdul Muin; Chan Kin Onn; Alexandra X. Sumarli; Ariel I. Loredo
• Keywords: Gekkonidae; Archipelago; Sister group

A time-calibrated phylogenetic tree indicates that the evolution of sympatric, montane, endemic species from closely related, co-distributed lineages Hemiphyllodactylus harterti group were not result rapid, forest-driven, climatic oscillations Last Glacial Maximum, but rather infrequent episodes environmental fluctuation during Late Miocene. This hypothesis is supported by genetic divergences (based on mitochondrial gene ND2) between three major H. (17.5–25.1%), their constituent (9.4–14.3%), and discrete, diagnostic, morphological, colour pattern characteristics each species. Sister pairs two occur in sympatry mountain tops opposite sides Thai–Malay Peninsula, to which pair belongs are sister lineages. newly discovered Gunung Tebu, Terengganu State, bintik sp. nov., described.