Taxonomic analysis of Paraguayan samples ofHomonota fasciataDuméril & Bibron (1836) with the revalidation ofHomonota horridaBurmeister (1861) (Reptilia: Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) and the description of a new species

• DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3523
• Publication Date: 2017-08-08T08:01:35Z
• Authors: Pier Cacciali; Mariana Morando; Cintia D. Medina; Gunther Köhler; Martha Motte; Luciano J. Avila
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; PHYLOGENY; QH301-705.5; R; Gekkota; Biodiversity; South America; 7. Clean energy; Nomenclatural acts; 6. Clean water; Chaco; 03 medical and health sciences; NOMENCLATURAL ACTS; 13. Climate action; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; South America ; Gekkota ; Chaco ; Phylogeny ; Nomenclatural acts; SOUTH AMERICA; Medicine; GEKKOTA; Biology (General); https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Phylogeny; CHACO

Homonota is a Neotropical genus of nocturnal lizards characterized by the following combination characters: absence femoral pores, infradigital lamellae not dilated, claws without sheath, inferior laterally denticulate, and presence ceratobranchial groove. Currently composed 10 species assembled in three groups: two groups with four species, fasciata group only species. Here, we analyzed genetic morphologic data samples from Paraguay; according to Maximum Likelihood Bayesian inference analyses, Paraguay population represents an undescribed Additionally, morphological analysis holotype H. (MNHN 6756) shows that it morphologically different banded, large-scaled commonly referred as "H. fasciata". Given inconsistency between characters name-bearing type fasciata, consider them taxa. Thus, inquirenda which needs further studies, resurrect name horrida for Homonota. The similar horrida, but can be differentiated high position auditory meatus relative mouth commissure (vs. low horrida); less developed tubercles on sides head, including narrow area orbit covered small granular scales or few several big head even meatus). new distributed Dry Chaco South America. With formal description this actual diversity increased 12 Furthermore, infer phylogenetic relationships 11 described genus, based molecular markers (two mitochondrial nine nuclear genes), concatenated tree approaches.