Long forsaken species diversity in the Middle American lizard<i>Holcosus undulatus</i>(Teiidae)

Meza-Lázaro, Rubí N.; de, Adrián Nieto‐Montes

doi:10.1111/zoj.12264

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“…At a finer scale, we found evidence for a phylogeographic split within the Caribbean clade near the Mexican Transition Zone at the Transvolcanic Belt (Morrone, ). The location of the contact zone is very close to where other researchers have noted a biotic transition (Bryson et al ; Meza‐Lázaro & Nieto‐Montes de Oca ; Morrone, ; Zaldívar‐Riverón et al, ), although the estimated zone of contact does not obviously appear to be associated with any geographic barriers. In the Pacific clade, populations from the Central Depression of Chiapas are closely related to nearby Pacific coastal populations (Figure ).…”

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Phylogeography of a widespread lizard complex reflects patterns of both geographic and ecological isolation

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A primary challenge for modern phylogeography is understanding how ecology and geography, both contemporary and historical, shape the spatial distribution and evolutionary histories of species. Phylogeographic patterns are the result of many factors, including geology, climate, habitat, colonization history and lineage‐specific constraints. Assessing the relative influences of these factors is difficult because few species, regions and environments are sampled in enough detail to compare competing hypotheses rigorously and because a particular phylogeographic pattern can potentially result from different evolutionary scenarios. The silky anoles (Anolis sericeus complex) of Central America and Mexico are abundant and found in all types of lowland terrestrial habitat, offering an excellent opportunity to test the relative influences of the factors affecting diversification. Here, we performed a range‐wide statistical phylogeographic analysis on restriction site‐associated DNA (RAD) markers from silky anoles and compared the phylogeographic patterns we recovered to historical and contemporary environmental and topographic data. We constructed niche models to compare niche overlap between sister lineages and conducted coalescent simulations to characterize how the major lineages of silky anoles have diverged. Our results revealed that the mode of divergence for major lineage diversification events was geographic isolation, resulting in ecological divergence between lineages, followed by secondary contact. Moreover, comparisons of parapatric sister lineages suggest that ecological niche divergence contributed to isolation by environment in this system, reflecting the natural history differences among populations in divergent environments.

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Phylogeography of a widespread lizard complex reflects patterns of both geographic and ecological isolation

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“…This mark is maintained only during the samplings days; we did not notice an increase of predation. Species identification was based on criteria of Wilson, Mata-Silva, and Johnson (2013) and MezaLa´zaro and Nieto-Montes de Oca (2015).…”

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Effects of Habitat Disturbance on Lizard Functional Diversity in a Tropical Dry Forest of the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Berriozabal‐Islas

Badillo-Saldaña

Ramírez‐Bautista

et al. 2017

Tropical Conservation Science

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Tropical dry forests are complex and diverse ecosystems threatened by multiple anthropogenic factors, such as habitat disturbance caused by land use change. We assessed species and functional diversity of lizard communities in areas with different levels of tropical dry forest disturbance in the Chamela region, Mexico. Functional richness, functional evenness, and functional dispersion were assessed considering six lizard functional traits. We recorded 415 lizards of 15 species. Species richness, species diversity, functional richness, functional dispersion, and the number of functional groups are lower in disturbed sites than in undisturbed tropical dry forest sites. On the contrary, abundance and functional evenness were higher in strongly disturbed sites. We suggest that lizard functional diversity should be studied further in order to secure the integrity of herpetofaunal communities and ecosystem processes.

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“…To identify the spatial distribution of reptile records in the study region, we projected all geo-referenced records onto our study area polygon using ArcGIS software, version 10.0 (ESRI 2010). To determine the distribution and taxonomically standardize the data set of species that inhabit the Selva Zoque and the other tropical regions, we consulted the specialized literature documenting taxonomic changes and descriptions of new species (Wüster et al 2005;Castoe et al 2009;Köhler 2010;Linkem et al 2011;Cadle and Savage 2012;Hedges and Conn 2012;Iverson et al 2013;Porras et al 2013;Köhler et al 2014;Ruane et al 2014;Blair et al 2015;Meza-Lázaro and Nieto-Montes de Oca 2015;Card et al 2016;Gray et al 2016;Köhler et al 2016;McCranie and Hedges 2016;Wallach 2016;Nieto-Montes de Oca et al 2017;Campbell et al 2018;Carbajal-Márquez et al 2020;Jadin et al 2020;McCranie et al 2020;Reyes-Velasco et al 2020;Ramírez-Reyes et al 2021). Using the compiled data, we defined four distribution categories: species distributed outside Mesoamerica as widely distributed species (WD), species restricted to Mesoamerica (MA), species restricted to northern Mesoamerica (MAMx), and species restricted to one of the eight regions considered.…”

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Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation

Aguilar-López¹,

Luría‐Manzano²,

Pineda³

et al. 2021

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The Selva Zoque region is characterized by a great variety of ecosystems for which there is little information about reptile species diversity and their conservation status. This study is the first assessment of the species richness, composition, and conservation status of reptiles of this region. Additionally, this information is compared with that of seven other tropical regions in northern Mesoamerica. In total, 141 native reptile species belonging to 81 genera and 29 families are recorded for the Selva Zoque region. Sixty species (42% of the total) recorded in Selva Zoque are in high-risk categories according to the Mexican Ministry of the Environment, the highest number for the Mexican regions of Mesoamerica. According to the IUCN, six species are in high-risk categories, seven species are in Data Deficient, and 23 (16%) have not been evaluated yet. According to the Environmental Vulnerability Scores approach, 28 species (20%) are in the high vulnerability category. The Selva Zoque species composition is most similar to Los Tuxtlas and Lacandona regions, and most dissimilar to Sian Ka´an Biosphere Reserve. The reptilian fauna of Selva Zoque has a distinctive composition, with the highest number (11 species) of endemic reptiles in the northern Mesoamerican, and species from two biogeographic provinces: the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Pacific Coast. These results indicate that the Selva Zoque is the most diverse region in native reptile species in northern Mesoamerica, highlighting it as extremely important for the conservation of the reptile fauna at local (southern Mexico) and regional levels (northern Mesoamerica).

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Long forsaken species diversity in the Middle American lizardHolcosus undulatus(Teiidae)

Cited by 16 publications

References 70 publications

Phylogeography of a widespread lizard complex reflects patterns of both geographic and ecological isolation

Phylogeography of a widespread lizard complex reflects patterns of both geographic and ecological isolation

Effects of Habitat Disturbance on Lizard Functional Diversity in a Tropical Dry Forest of the Pacific Coast of Mexico

Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation

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