Lepidoblepharis emberawoundule BATISTA, PONCE, VESELY, MEBERT, HERTZ, KÖHLER, CARRIZO & LOTZKAT, 2015
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Lepidoblepharis emberawoundule
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Lepidoblepharis emberawoundule BATISTA, PONCE, VESELY, MEBERT, HERTZ, KÖHLER, CARRIZO & LOTZKAT 2015 Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma — AUTH 1994 (part.) Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma — YOUNG et al. 1999 (part.) Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma — IBÁÑEZ et al. 2001 (part.) Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma — KÖHLER 2001: Fig. 172 Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma — KÖHLER 2008: Fig. 136 (part.) Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma — JARAMILLO et al. 2010 (part.) |
| Distribution | Panama Type locality: La Cascada trail, Burbayar private reserve (9.31837°N, 79.00266°W, 360 m elevation), Cartí, Narganá, Comarca Guna Yala, Panama |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: SMF 50968, Adult male, original field number AB 963 (Fig. 10), collected from leaf-litter on 26 November 2013 at 23:40 hrs, by Abel Batista and Konrad Mebert. Paratypes. Three adult males, two adult females, and one juvenile, all from Panama. Three males (SMF 81950–52) from Nusagandí field station and two females (SMF 81953–54) from the nearby Sendero Nusagandí, Comarca Guna Yala, collected 14–17 April 2000; one juvenile (MHCH 2952) from Río Terable, El Llano, Chepo, Panama, collected on 27 November 2012; see Appendix I for locality details. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Lepidoblepharis emberawoundule (our sp. nov. 1) is characterized by the following combination of characters: (1) dorsal body scales small, granular, and juxtaposed, ventral scales large, cycloid, flat, and imbricate; (2) scales on head small and granular; (3) 3–4 (3.1 ± 0.3) postrostral scales; (4) a vaguely M-shaped posterior mental border with two paramedian clefts; (5) 3–7 (5.1 ± 1.04) postmentals, larger than the posteriorly adjacent scales on chin; (6) lamellae under fourth toe 6–9 (7.9 ± 0.85), lamellae under fourth finger 5–8 (6.7 ± 1.01); (7) median subcaudals conspicuously wider than long, but their width less than twice the width of the laterally adjacent scales or their own length, with straight or rounded posterior margins, arranged in a regular tail sequence of 1'1''; (8) ventral escutcheon consisting of 38–61 (48.4 ± 8.85) scales, 6–7 (6.8 ± 0.45) scales long and 10–13 (11.6 ± 1.14) wide; (9) subfemoral escutcheon consisting of 4–5 (4.4 ± 0.52) well-discernible scales per thigh arranged in a single row (Fig. 5 A); (10) 16–20 (18.2 ± 1.17) longitudinal rows of ventral scales at midbody; (11) 52–74 (61.8 ± 7.61) longitudinal rows of dorsal scales at midbody; (12) bilobate hemipenis, with a third lobule rising from the pedicel (Fig. 6 A–B); (13) SVL 21–30 (25 ± 2.07) mm. |
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| Etymology | The name emberawoundule is a compound word in honor to “the forest guardians”, the three indigenous peoples inhabiting eastern Panama; embera: Emberá Indians from the foothills of Jingurudó, Bagre, Sapo, Darién, and Pirre mountain ranges; woun: Wounaan Indians, mainly from the Tuira basin and Majé mountain range; dule: meaning people in the language of the Guna Indians from the Caribbean and Pacific versants of the San Blas and Darién mountain ranges. |
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