Monday, April 6, 2015 | 6:19 pm
A group of researchers from Ecuador, Peru and the United States have discovered three new species of Lizard with “dragon form” in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes.
The research is published in the journal ZooKeys . and, according to its authors, the new species differs from its closest relatives in size, color and DNA
lizards -a “unusual discovery” – belong to the genus Enyalioides , of which it is known that are diurnal and live in tropical forests, as the Chocó and the western basin of Amazon , and in the cloud forests to both sides of the Andes.
It should be noted that these three new species increases the number of Enyalioides to 15, with a group of lizards which is not known much yet.
In this study, scientists Omar Torres-Carvajal, the Museum of Zoology of Ecuador have worked; Pablo J. Venegas, Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity of Peru (CORBIDI) and Kevin de Queiroz, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History of the United States.
“Finding these Three new species is surprising because they are among the lizards largest and most colorful forests of South America, “the researchers said.
Torres-Carvajal said that began working with this type of lizards in 2006, when only seven species known.
“In recent years we have doubled the number of known species of Enyalioides, demonstrating that the diversity of these remarkable reptiles was underestimated, “Torres-Carvajal said. .
This, he added, should be taken into account by conservation agencies
EFE
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