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DOI	10.11646/zootaxa.4706.2.3
	Revalidation and resurrection of Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) and the description of a new species of Panaspis Cope (Squamata: Scincidae) from south-eastern Kenya
	Kilunda, Felista Kasyoka 1,2,3,4; Conradie, Werner 6,7; Wasonga, Domnick Victor 4; Jin, Jie-Qiong 1; Peng, Min-Sheng 1,2; Murphy, Robert W.1,5; Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta 4; Che, Jing 1,2
通讯作者	Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta ; Che, Jing
来源期刊	ZOOTAXA
ISSN	1175-5326
EISSN	1175-5334
出版年	2019
卷号	4706 期号:2 页码:255-274
英文摘要	Historically Panaspis wahlbergi (Smith, 1849) has been the only assignable species present in Kenya. Recent studies have shown that it comprises multiple cryptic species and the nominal species is now restricted to southern Africa. Newly collected mitochondrial data (16S rRNA) helped to resolve the status of the Kenyan populations, which revealed the presence of two distant related species. Pairwise distances show average 5.87% differences between the two Kenyan species, and 3.58-5.27% and 8.62-9.15% to nominal P. wahlbergi and P. maculicollis Jacobsen & Broadley, 2000 respectively. Ablepharus massaiensis Angel, 1924 was described from the Maasai plains near Nairobi, but has long been considered a junior synonym of P. wahlbergi. We herein resurrect Panaspis massaiensis comb. nov. as a valid species and describe a new species, Panaspis tsavoensis sp. nov. from the Tsavo Conservation Area in south-eastern Kenya. Morphological examinations of specimens reveal minor differences from each other as well as nominal forms of P. wahlbergi and P. maculicollis. Panaspis massaiensis comb. nov. shares with the P. wahlbergi group a white ventrolateral stripe but can be distinguished by the presence of 26 midbody scale rows versus 24. Panaspis tsavoensis sp. nov. on the other hand, lacks the white ventrolateral stripe, most similar to the P. maculicollis group but differs in that P. maculicollis breeding males have a black patch on the neck with diagonal rows of white spots. Panaspis massaiensis comb. nov. is widespread in the Kenyan and northern Tanzanian highlands, isolated dryland montane forests and rocky hills, while P. tsavoensis sp. nov. occur in the expansive arid lowlands of Tsavo Conservation Area and should be present in similar arid lowlands in northern Kenya as well as in adjacent Tanzania.
英文关键词	Tsavo Afroablepharus cryptic species biodiversity hotspot morphology East Africa
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China ; Kenya ; Canada ; South Africa
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000502320300003
WOS关键词	BAYESIAN PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE ; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT ; GENUS ; MITOCHONDRIAL ; SKINKS ; DNA
WOS类目	Zoology
WOS研究方向	Zoology
EI主题词	2019-12-09
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/311643
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Zool, State Key Lab Genet Resources & Evolut, Kunming 650223, Yunnan, Peoples R China; 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Zool, Sino African Joint Res Ctr, Kunming 650223, Yunnan, Peoples R China; 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Coll Life Sci, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, Peoples R China; 4.Natl Museums Kenya, Herpetol Sect, Dept Zool, Nairobi 4065800100, Kenya; 5.Royal Ontario Museum, Ctr Biodivers & Conservat Biol, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada; 6.Port Elizabeth Museum Bayworld, POB 13147, ZA-6013 Humewood, South Africa; 7.Nelson Mandela Univ, Sch Nat Resource Management, George Campus, ZA-6530 George, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kilunda, Felista Kasyoka,Conradie, Werner,Wasonga, Domnick Victor,et al. Revalidation and resurrection of Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) and the description of a new species of Panaspis Cope (Squamata: Scincidae) from south-eastern Kenya[J],2019,4706(2):255-274.
APA	Kilunda, Felista Kasyoka.,Conradie, Werner.,Wasonga, Domnick Victor.,Jin, Jie-Qiong.,Peng, Min-Sheng.,...&Che, Jing.(2019).Revalidation and resurrection of Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) and the description of a new species of Panaspis Cope (Squamata: Scincidae) from south-eastern Kenya.ZOOTAXA,4706(2),255-274.
MLA	Kilunda, Felista Kasyoka,et al."Revalidation and resurrection of Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) and the description of a new species of Panaspis Cope (Squamata: Scincidae) from south-eastern Kenya".ZOOTAXA 4706.2(2019):255-274.