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| 3:49a | [Botany • 2020] Nepenthes putaiguneung (Nepenthaceae) • A New Species from Highland of Sumatra, Indonesia
Abstract A new species of Nepenthes—Nepenthes putaiguneung—from the highlands of Sumatra (Indonesia) is described and illustrated. This new species is morphologically similar with N. Singalana from which differs in having narrowly spathulate leaves, more gracile upper pitchers with a finely ribbed peristome, lacking teeth on its inner edge, lid with a basal crest and a short tooth-like triangular appendage near the apex on the underside (not lacking such appendages), the lid glands of lower pitcher confined to the midline (not scattered evenly over the whole surface), and pedicel of lower male flowers usually with minutely short bracteole. N. putaiguneung is also similar to N. mikei but differs in having narrowly spathulate leaves with obtuse apex, lower pitcher with slender infundibulate shape below and cylindrical above, peristome of lower pitcher with short and denser distinct ribs, lid of lower and upper pitcher with a prominent glandular crest at the base of midrib, several distinct glands on the lid of lower pitcher that clustered along the midrib; and pedicel of lower male flowers that usually with minutely short bracteole. Keywords: Eudicots, Nepenthes, Nepenthes mikei, pitcher    Destario Metusala, Dee Dee Al Farishy and Matthew Jebb. 2020. Nepenthes putaiguneung (Nepenthaceae), A New Species from Highland of Sumatra, Indonesia. Phytotaxa. 454(4); 285–292. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.454.4.6 | ||||||
| 10:24a | [Herpetology • 2020] Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis • A New Medium-bodied Rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai Massif, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract We describe a new species of the Hemidactylus acanthopholis clade from Sirumalai, an isolated massif in the Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu state, India. Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis sp. nov. can be diagnosed from all members of the prashadi group by its medium body size (SVL <95 mm), the number of dorsal tubercles rows at mid-body, the number of enlarged tubercles in paravertebral rows, the number of femoral pores and poreless scales between series of left and right femoral pores on the femoral-precloacal row in males, the number of ventral scales across the belly at mid-body and subtle colour pattern differences. The new species is the fourth member of the acanthopholis clade and 8.5–13.4 % divergent in ND2 sequence data from other members of the clade. We also provide data on additional specimens from a new locality of Hemidactylus kolliensis, previously known only from the male holotype. Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis sp. nov. is the first endemic and only the other vertebrate species described from Sirumalai massif in the last 133 years. Most rupicolous Hemidactylus species from peninsular India outside the Western Ghats are known only from a few localities and are likely to be geographically restricted in distribution, and large areas of suitable habitat remain unsurveyed, suggesting many more allied species remain to be discovered. Keywords: Reptilia, cryptic species, granite boulders, Hemidactylus acanthopholis, peninsular India, rock geckos, taxonomy 
Hemidactylus kolliensis Agarwal, Bauer, Giri & Khandekar Kolli rock gecko
Hemidactylus sirumalaiensis sp. nov. Hemidactylus cf. acanthopholis Ganesh et al. 2016 Suggested Common Name. Sirumalai rock gecko. Etymology. The specific epithet is a toponym for the Sirumalai Massif, the only known locality of the species.   Akshay Khandekar, Tejas Thackeray, Swapnil Pawar and Ishan Agarwal. 2020. A New Medium-bodied Rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai Massif, Tamil Nadu, India. Zootaxa. 4852(1); 83–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.4 |
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