| A New Species of the GenusThermophis （Serpentes：Colubridae） from Shangri-La,Northern Yunnan,China, with a Proposal for an Eclectic Rule for Species Delimitation |
| |
| 作者姓名： | Lifang PENG, Changhu LU, Song HUANG, Peng GUO, Yaping ZHANG |
| |
| 作者单位： | [1]College of Biology and Environment, Graduate School, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, Jiangsu, China; [2]College of Life and Environment Sciences, Huangshan University, Huangshan245041, Anhui, China; [3]State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, Yunnan, China; [4]Department of Life Sciences and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin644000, Sichuan, China |
| |
| 基金项目： | Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Anita Malhotra （Bangor University, UK） for helpful comments and correction of English on a draft of this manuscript. We also thank Tianqi ZHOU, Xin ZHENG, Jun-Sheng CUI, Diancheng YANG and Tengfeng NI （Huangshan University） for helping in collecting samples, and Jinmin CHEN, Baolin ZAHNG （Yunnan University） and Xiaoyu SUN （Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences） for helping in data processing. This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （31471968, 31090250, 31372152）. This work was also supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China （MOST Grant 2011FY 120200）, the Chinese Academy of Sciences （CAS; KSCX2- EW-Z-2; KSCX2-EW-Q-9）, the Bureau of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province to ZYP, the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions （PAPD） and the Department of education of Sichuan Province （13TD0027）. |
| |
| 摘 要： | The hot-spring snakes,Thermophis, were previously known only from the Tibet Autonomous Region and Western Sichuan, China. During the past two years, three adult hot-spring snakes （2 females, 1 male） were sampled in Shangri-La, northern Yunnan, China, thus expanding their known distribution region towards the southeast. This site is the southeastern-most corner of the Tibetan Plateau and the southernmost tip of the Hengduan Mountains （Mts.）. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial （mt） and nuclear （n） DNA segments suggested that the three specimens belong to the genus ofThermophis. Morphologically, the new species is more similar toT. zhaoermii. However, it is distinguished fromT.zhaoermiiin the number of maxillary teeth （15）, distance between the two eyes/head width, rostral width/height, mental width/height, in one character limited to female： head width/length, and in four characters restricted to male： occurrence of the reduction from 10 to 8 （8 to 6, 6 to 4） scales in each dorsal row on the tail. There are differences in morphology, genetics （mtDNA, nDNA）, and geography between the putative new species andT.zhaoermii,the new species meets our proposed eclectic and feasible ＂four-differences＂ rule.
|
| 关 键 词： | 香格里拉 新物种 中国 云南 游蛇科 线粒体DNA 蛇类 新种 |
| 本文献已被 维普 等数据库收录！ |
|
