Guarocuyus jaraguanus LANDESTOY, SCHOOLS & HEDGES, 2022
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Guarocuyus jaraguanus
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| Higher Taxa | Diploglossidae, Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Jaragua Forest Lizard |
| Synonym | Guarocuyus jaraguanus LANDESTOY, SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2022 Guarocuyus jaraguanus — SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2024: 130 |
| Distribution | Dominican Republic (Laguna de Oviedo of the Parque Nacional Jaragua in the Barahona Peninsula) Type locality: Cayo de las Iguanas, Laguna de Oviedo, Parque Nacional Jaragua, Pedernales Province, Dominican Republic (17.73205, -71.37126, datum WGS84; elev. near sea level. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. MNHNSD 23.3937 (MALT1004; Fig. 8) collected by Miguel A. Landestoy on 22 September 2021. Paratypes. Nine males, seven females, and two juveniles. IIBZ-HER00001–00004, MNHNSD 23.3912–3916, collected by Miguel A. Landestoy, Gerson Féliz, and Juan Pérez-Vidal on 29 April 2021, at the same locality as the holotype. MNHNSD 23.3934–3936, IIBZ-HER00005–00008, collected by Miguel A. Landestoy, same data as the holotype. MNHNSD 23.3948–3949, collected by Miguel A. Landestoy and Gerson Féliz on 4 June 2022 at Cayo Pei, Laguna de Oviedo (17.73099°, -71.37684°). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. Landestoy et al. (2022) discussed several unique morphological traits observed in Guarocuyus jaraguanus. These include the number of scales in contact with the nasal scale (ranging from 4–5), the number of postnasal scales (1–2), the semi-prehensile tail, and the presence of scaleless webbing between toes II to IV. Guarocuyus jaraguanus has (1) a dorsal pattern of mottled/chevrons/bands, (2) head markings present, (3) markings in the longitudinal paramedian area present, (4) dots arranged in bars in the lateral band absent, (5) a maximum SVL of 84.6–110 mm, (6) ventral scale rows, 100–114, (7) midbody scale rows, 40, (8) total lamellae on one hand, unavailable, (9) total strigae on ten scales, unavailable, (10) relative length of all digits on one hindlimb, unavailable, (11) relative distance between the angled subocular and mouth, unavailable, (12) relative eye length, unavailable, (13) relative forelimb length, unavailable, (14) relative ear width, 2.33–2.90 %, (15) relative rostral height, 1.55–1.85 %, (16) relative head length, 18.6 %, (17) relative mental width, unavailable, (18) relative postmental width, unavailable, (19) relative cloacal width, unavailable, (20) relative prefrontal width, unavailable, (21) relative largest supraocular width, unavailable, (22) relative longest finger length, unavailable, (23) relative distance between the ear and eye, unavailable, (24) relative head width, 74.5 %, (25) relative frontal width, unavailable, (26) relative nasal height, unavailable, (27) relative angled subocular height, unavailable, (28) relative distance between the eye and naris, unavailable, (29) relative canthal iii length, unavailable, (30) relative angled subocular width, unavailable, and (31) relative nasal length, unavailable. The species stem time is 8.59 Ma and the species crown time is 0.01 Ma (Fig. 4). (Schools & Hedges 2024) |
| Comment | Type species: Guarocuyus jaraguanus LANDESTOY, SCHOOLS & HEDGES 2022 is the type species of the genus Guarocuyus LANDESTOY et al. 2022. |
| Etymology | Named after the national park that encompasses the type locality The genus name a latinized masculine patronym honoring the taíno Guarocuya (a.k.a Enriquillo), the last cacique of the Jaragua region and a hero of the last standing free community of this native Antillean people, who died around the first half of the 16th century (Altman 2007; Ozuna 2018). |
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