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Lepidoblepharis emberawoundule BATISTA, PONCE, VESELY, MEBERT, HERTZ, KÖHLER, CARRIZO & LOTZKAT, 2015

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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLepidoblepharis 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.) 
DistributionPanama

Type locality: La Cascada trail, Burbayar private reserve (9.31837°N, 79.00266°W, 360 m elevation), Cartí, Narganá, Comarca Guna Yala, Panama  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: 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. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: 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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Comment 
EtymologyThe 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. 
References
  • Auth,D.L. 1994. Checklist and bibliography of the amphibians and reptiles of Panama. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (98): 1-59 - get paper here
  • Barrio-Amorós, Cesar Luis, Michelle Quiroz, Cristian Porras-Ramírez, Rene Villanueva-Maldonado, Alejandro Estrada-García, Abel Batista 2023. Amphibians and reptiles encountered during an expedition to Panama. Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18359 - get paper here
  • BATISTA, ABEL; MARCOS PONCE, MILAN VESELY, KONRAD MEBERT, ANDREAS HERTZ, GUNTHER KÖHLER, ARCADIO CARRIZO & SEBASTIAN LOTZKAT 2015. Revision of the genus Lepidoblepharis (Reptilia: Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) in Central America, with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 3994 (2): 187–221 - get paper here
  • CALDERÓN-ESPINOSA, MARTHA LUCIA & GUIDO FABIAN MEDINA-RANGEL 2016. A new Lepidoblepharis lizard (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Colombian Guyana shield. . Zootaxa 4067 (2): 215–232 - get paper here
  • Ibáñez D., R., Solís, F.A., Jaramillo A., C.A. & Rand, A.S. 2001. An overview of the herpetology of Panama. In: Johnson, J.D., Webb, R.G. & Flores-Villela, O. (Eds.), Mesoamerican Herpetology: Systematics, Zoogeography, and Conservation. The University of Texas at El Paso, pp. 159–170
  • Jaramillo, C., L. D. Wilson, R. Ibáñez, and F. Jaramillo 2010. The herpetofauna of Panama: distribution and conservation status. In L. D. Wilson, J. H. Townsend, and J. D. Johnson (eds.), Conservation of Mesoamerican Amphibians and Reptiles. Eagle Mountain Publishing LC, Eagle Mountain, Utah, Pg. 604–671
  • Köhler, G. 2001. Anfibios y reptiles de Nicaragua. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 208 pp
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Kwet, A. 2016. Liste der im Jahr 2015 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2016 (3): 56-67 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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