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Gekko mizoramensis sp. n., coloration in life, (a) holotype NCBS NRC-AA-4514, (b) juvenile MZMU-2880. Photos by Lal Muansanga.
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The Parachute Gecko Gekko lionotum (Annandale, 1905) has been reported to be distributed across parts of Mizoram state (India), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. A phylogeographic study revealed that the species is paraphyletic and comprises multiple cryptic species. Earlier studies included samples from most parts of the species range ex...
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... in life (Fig. 5). Grey with darker grey blotches edged with black and black reticulations on the head, and paired black bands on the trunk and the tail. The nape exhibits a sub-ovate mark, and the temporal region an undefined reticulate pattern, which becomes obsolete posteriorly as both join the first band on the trunk. The first black band is at the ...
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... in life (Fig. 5). Grey with darker grey blotches edged with black and black reticulations on the head, and paired black bands on the trunk and the tail. The nape exhibits a sub-ovate mark, and the temporal region an undefined reticulate pattern, which becomes obsolete posteriorly as both join the first band on the trunk. The first black band is at the ...
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... The description of the new species merely reflects the poor reptile documentation of the Indo-Burma region. Several new species of snakes and lizards have been described from the Indo-Burma region in the last couple of years [22][23][24][25][26][27][28], warranting dedicated efforts to document the snake fauna of the region. Table S1: GenBank accession numbers and voucher codes used in the phylogenetic analysis. ...
The natricine snake genus Smithophis Giri, Gower, Das, Lalremsanga, Lalronunga, Captain, and Deepak, 2019, is represented by four species, three of which are distributed in northeast India and Bangladesh, and a single species in Yunnan and Myanmar. In the past, S. bicolor (Blyth, 1855) was said to be widespread across northeast India and Myanmar; however, recent studies have shown it to be a species complex. Here, we describe a new species of the complex from the Indian state of
Mizoram that resembles S. bicolor. The new species differs in bearing a patterned dorsum, a darker venter, and moderately keeled sacral scales. Re-examination of types of S. arunachalensis Das, Deepak, Captain, Wade, and Gower, 2020, shows the presence of strongly keeled sacral keels in males, which is an important diagnostic character. A revised key to members of the genus is presented with notes on S. arunachalensis.
... Moreover, the high levels of endemism and diversity in the Indo-Burma hotspot are attributed to the region's geological and evolutionary history (Tordoff et al. 2020 Purkayastha et al. 2021Purkayastha et al. , 2022Lalremsanga et al. 2022a;Mirza et al. 2022;Bohra et al. 2022). Despite its small area, the relatively high level of herpetofaunal diversity in Mizoram is supported by recently published new reptile descriptions (e.g., Vogel et al. 2017Vogel et al. , 2020Giri et al. 2019aGiri et al. , 2019bDas et al. 2021;Lalronunga et al. 2021;Purkayastha et al. 2021;Lalremsanga et al. 2022aLalremsanga et al. , 2022bLalremsanga et al. , 2023Rathee et al. 2022) and distributional range extensions (e.g. Lalremsanga et al. 2010Lalremsanga et al. , 2011Lalremsanga et al. , 2018Lalremsanga et al. , 2022cAshaharraza et al. 2019;Lalbiakzuala & Lalremsanga 2017, 2019, 2020Lalbiakzuala et al. 2020aLalbiakzuala et al. , 2020bHmar et al. 2020Hmar et al. , 2021a2021b;Muansanga et al. 2020;Tariang et al. 2022). ...
A new species of Cyrtodactylus is described from Vairengte town, situated in the Kolasib District of Mizoram State, north-eastern India. The new species is found to be a member of Indo-Burman Cyrtodactylus khasiensis clade based on ND2 gene sequences and morphological parameters, such as number of precloacal pores, mid-ventral scale rows, paravertebral tubercles on the trunk, dorsal tubercle rows, subdigital lamellae on pes and subcaudal scalation, making it the sixth endemic Cyrtodactylus from Mizoram and twenty second from north-east India. Moreover, phylogenetic evidence suggests the new species to be sister to the recently described C. aaronbaueri, and morphological analyses also reveal marginal separation between the two species based on the PCA of infralabials, lamellae on fingers and toes, paravertebral tubercles on the trunk, and dorsal tubercle rows.
