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2. A new dwarf chameleon, genus Brookesia, from the Marojejy massif in northern Madagascar

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Miguel Vences, Jörn Köhler, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw, and Mark D. Scherz

Subjects
Reptilia, Zoology, Biology, Article, Genus, Brookesia, Hemipenis, Species group, Squamata, Animalia, Veröffentlichung der TU Braunschweig, Chordata, lcsh:QH301-705.5, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sea level, ddc:5, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, National park, Brookesia peyrierasi, miniaturisation, Massif, biology.organism_classification, Chamaeleonidae, Marojejy National Park, Brookesia minima, Brookesia minima species group, lcsh:Biology (General), ddc:59, peyrierasi, Brookesia tedi sp. n
Abstract

We describe a new species of dwarf chameleon from the Brookesiaminima species group. Brookesiatedisp. n. occurs above 1300 m above sea level on the Marojejy massif in northeastern Madagascar. It is genetically sister to B.peyrierasi, a species occurring in lowlands around the Baie de Antongil, but is genetically strongly divergent from that species in both nuclear (c-mos) and mitochondrial (16S, ND2) genes, and morphologically in its smaller size and distinctly different hemipenis. It is the second species of the B.minima species group from Marojejy National Park, but is not known to occur in syntopy with the other species, B.karchei, due to elevational segregation.

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2019
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