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dc.contributor.authorOliver, Paul M
dc.contributor.authorRichards, Stephen T
dc.contributor.authorMumpuni
dc.contributor.authorRoesler, Herbert
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-26T03:50:06Z
dc.date.available2023-06-26T03:50:06Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1313-2989en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3897/zookeys.562.6052en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/411158
dc.description.abstractThe diverse biota of New Guinea includes many nominally widespread species that actually comprise multiple deeply divergent lineages with more localised histories of evolution. Here we investigate the systematics of the very large geckos of the Cyrtodactylus novaeguineae complex using molecular and morphological data. These data reveal two widespread and divergent lineages that can be distinguished from each other, and from type material of Cyrtodactylus novaeguineae, by aspects of size, build, coloration and male scalation. On the basis of these differences we describe two new species. Both have wide distributions that overlap extensively in the foothill forests of the North Papuan Mountains, however one is seemingly restricted to hill and lower montane forests on the ranges themselves, while the other is more widespread throughout the surrounding lowlands. The taxon endemic to the North Papuan Mountains is related to an apparently lowland form currently known only from Waigeo and Batanta Island far to the west – hinting at a history on island arcs that accreted to form the North Papuan Mountains.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherPENSOFT PUBLISHERSen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom105en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto130en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue562en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalZookeysen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume2016en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEvolutionary biologyen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchZoologyen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3104en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3109en_US
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicineen_US
dc.subject.keywordsArc accretionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEndemismen_US
dc.titleThe Knight and the King: two new species of giant benttoed gecko (Cyrtodactylus, Gekkonidae, Squamata) from northern New Guinea, with comments on endemism in the North Papuan Mountainsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articlesen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOliver, PM; Richards, ST; Mumpuni, ; Roesler, H, The Knight and the King: two new species of giant benttoed gecko (Cyrtodactylus, Gekkonidae, Squamata) from northern New Guinea, with comments on endemism in the North Papuan Mountains, Zookeys, 2016, 2016 (562), pp. 105-130en_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-11-06
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.date.updated2021-12-21T04:29:59Z
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gro.rights.copyright© Paul M. Oliver et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
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