MADRID . A group of researchers from Ecuador, Peru and the United States has discovered three new species Lizard with “dragon form” in Andes Ecuadorians and Peruvians.
The research has been published in the scientific journal ZooKeys and, according to its authors, the new species differs from its closest relatives size, color and DNA.
lizards belong to the genus Enyalioides , of which it is known that are diurnal and live in tropical forests, as the Choco (Colombia) and the western Amazon basin and in the cloud forests on both sides of the Andes.
It should be noted that these three new species increases the number of Enyalioides 15, with a group of lizards which not much is known yet.
In this study, scientists Omar Torres-Carvajal, the Museum of Zoology of Ecuador have collaborated ; Pablo J. Venegas, the Centre for Ornithology and Biodiversity of Peru (CORBIDI); and Kevin de Queiroz, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History of the United States.
“Finding these three new species is surprising because they are among the lizards largest and colorful of forests of South America, “the researchers said.
Torres-Carvajal said that began working with this type of lizards in 2006, when only seven species were known.
“In recent years we have doubled the number of known species of Enyalioide s, which shows that the diversity of these remarkable reptiles was underestimated,” Torres-Carvajal said.
Images of three new species:
Enyalioides Anisolepis. (Photo: ZooKeys / Omar Torres-Carvajal)
Enyalioides sophiarothschildae. (Photo: ZooKeys / Paul J. Venegas)
Enyalioides altotambo. (Photo: ZooKeys / Luis A. Coloma)
Source: EFE
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