A New Gekko from Sibuyan Island, Central Philippines
A New Gekko from Sibuyan Island, Central Philippines
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来自菲律宾中部锡布延岛的新壁虎
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2011
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A. Alcala
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Rafe M. Brown;Cameron D. Siler;C. Oliveros;A. Diesmos;A. Alcala
本文描述了采自菲律宾中部隆布隆群岛西布延岛的壁虎属一新种。虽然新物种是从其他菲律宾壁虎的身体大小和形状，颜色和外部形态的多个特征诊断，额外的支持识别Sibuyan壁虎人口作为一个独特的进化谱系是从DNA序列数据和地理推断。新物种已被收集在树干或花岗岩岩石沿着河流在成熟的，低地森林，并在森林边缘的植被接壤的农业地区。它只在锡布延岛被发现，毫无疑问是这个孤立的小大陆的特有种。虽然较大的，地形复杂的菲律宾岛屿一直是最近的许多努力，估计脊椎动物物种多样性的目标，较小的岛屿的群岛得到了相对较少的关注，并可能支持显着水平的未得到重视的脊椎动物多样性。
Abstract We describe a new species of lizard in the genus Gekko from Sibuyan Island in the Romblon Island group of the central Philippines. Although the new species is diagnosed from other Philippine Gekko by body size and shape, coloration, and multiple characteristics of external morphology, additional support for the recognition of the Sibuyan Gekko population as a distinct evolutionary lineage is garnered from DNA sequence data and biogeographical inference. The new species has been collected on trunks of trees or on granitic rocks along rivers in mature, lowland forest, and on vegetation at forest edges bordering agricultural areas. It is known only from Sibuyan Island and is undoubtedly endemic to this single small, isolated landmass. Although the larger, topographically complex islands of the Philippines have been the targets of numerous recent efforts to estimate vertebrate species diversity, smaller islands of the archipelago have received comparatively less attention and may support significant levels of underappreciated vertebrate diversity.