On the taxonomy and phylogeny of the skinks Lipinia sekayuensis Grismer, Ismail, Awang, Rizal, & Ahmad and Lipinia surda Boulenger from Peninsular Malaysia

Grismer LL 1 , Wood PL 2 , Syafiq MF 3 , Badli-Sham BH 3 , Rizal SA 3 , Ahmad AB 3 Show all authors , Quah ES 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California, 92515-8247 USA.; Email: lgrismer@lasierra.edu
  • 2 Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 150 East Bulldog Boulevard, Provo, Utah 84602 USA.; Email: pwood@byu.edu
  • 3 School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.; Email: amirrudin@umt.edu.my
  • 4 School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Penang, Malaysia.; Email: evanquah@yahoo.com
Zootaxa, 2016 Aug 02;4147(1):59-66.
PMID: 27515603 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.3

Abstract

An integrative taxonomic analysis based on additional specimens and color photographs of Lipinia sekayuensis and additional color photographs of L. surda from Pulau Tioman and the Gunung Panti Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia confirm the previous hypotheses that L. sekayuensis is a valid species and is the sister species of L. surda. The two species share a 12.8% sequence divergence between them.

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