Acanthosaura phuketensis (Squamata: Agamidae), a new long-horned tree agamid from southwestern Thailand

Abstract

We describe a new lowland forest-dwelling species of the genus Acanthosaura from Phuket Island and the Phuket mountain range in southwestern Thailand. Acanthosaura phuketensis sp. nov., the 11^th species in the genus, seems most closely related to A. crucigera from Myanmar and western Thailand and A. cardamomensis from the Cardamom Mountains, but can be differentiated from them by a combination of morphological and coloration characteristics. This new discovery stresses the importance of preserving the last forest patches remaining on Phuket Island, home to three other squamate endemics.

Troublesome Trimes: Potential cryptic speciation of the Trimeresurus (Popeia) popeiorum complex (Serpentes: Crotalidae) around the Isthmus of Kra (Myanmar and Thailand)

“…Recent studies of the agamid lizard Bronchocela rayanesis showed that species, initially described from Langkawi Island, Malaysia , also occurs on Phuket Island and mainland Phang-nga Province, Thailand (Grismer et al 2016;Zug et al 2017). The tree agamid lizard Acanthosaura phuketensis (Pauwels et al 2015), also seems to occur on both Phuket Island and nearby adjacent Phang-nga, Province. Until sequences from the type locality of T. phuketensis are analyzed, the status of B467 remains problematic.…”

A new species of the genus Acanthosaura from Yunnan, China (Squamata, Agamidae)

“…Paired meristic characters are given as left/right. The list and methodology of measurements and meristic counts follow Wood et al (2010) and Pauwels et al (2015):…”

“…NSSPS number of scales surrounding the postorbital spine (in addition to characters abbreviations listed in Pauwelset al 2015);…”

“…We compared the characters of the new collection with the characters of all currently recognized species of Acanthosaura (Pauwels et al 2015; Nguyen et al 2018, 2019), see Table 4.…”

A new species of the genus Acanthosaura (Squamata, Agamidae) from Yunnan, China, with comments on its conservation status

“…Comparative morphological data were taken from original descriptions and subsequent studies (Hardwicke and Gray 1827;Cuvier 1829;Günther 1861Günther , 1864Boulenger 1885Boulenger , 1900Werner 1904;Vogt 1914;Lönnberg 1916;Smith 1935;Taylor 1963;Orlov et al 2006;Ananjeva et al 2008Ananjeva et al , 2011Wood et al 2009Wood et al , 2010Pauwels et al 2015;Nguyen et al 2018;Liu et al 2019;Nguyen et al 2019;Trivalairat et al 2020).…”