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Download Download ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) OPEN ACCESS ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) 26 August 2018 (Online & Print) Vol. 10 | No. 9 | 12147–12298 10.11609/jot.2018.10.9.12147-12298 www.threatenedtaxa.org Building evidence for conservatonJ globally TTJournal of Threatened Taxa ISSN 0974-7907 (Online); ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Published by Typeset and printed at Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society Zoo Outreach Organizaton No. 12, Thiruvannamalai Nagar, Saravanampat - Kalapat Road, Saravanampat, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India Ph: 0 938 533 9863 Email: [email protected], [email protected] www.threatenedtaxa.org EDITORS Christoph Kuefer, Insttute of Integratve Biology, Zürich, Switzerland Founder & Chief Editor Christoph Schwitzer, University of the West of England, Clifon, Bristol, BS8 3HA Dr. Sanjay Molur, Coimbatore, India Christopher L. 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Raghunathan, Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Jill Pruetz, Iowa State University, Ames, USA C. Srinivasulu, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Jim Sanderson, Small Wild Cat Conservaton Foundaton, Hartord, USA Carl Ferraris, Smithsonian Insttuton, Portland, USA Jodi L. Sedlock, Lawrence University, Appleton, USA Carol Inskipp, Bishop Auckland Co., Durham, UK John C. Morse, Clemson University, Long Hall, Clemson, USA Cecília Kierulf, Victorville , California John Huber, Canadian Natonal Collecton of Insects, Ontario, Canada. Cecilia Volkmer Ribeiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil. John Noyes, Natural History Museum, London, UK Chris Bowden, Royal Society for the Protecton of Birds, Sandy, UK John Veron, Coral Reef Foundaton, Townsville, Australia contnued on the back inside cover Capton: Both the Old World and New World birds and fsh are not only beautful but also tell us about the status of their habitats. And as people, we can learn more from them about the world we live in. Watercolour artwork by Anita Menon, Yellow Train School, Coimbatore. Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 August 2018 | 10(9): 12147–12162 Article Aearances are decetive: olecular hlogen recovers the Scal Geco H (Retilia: Suaata: Geonidae) as a eber of a scansorial and ruicolous clade ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Achyuthan N. Srikanthan 1 , Gandla Chethan Kumar 2 , Aishwarya J. Urs 3 & 4 Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh OPEN ACCESS 1 Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Insttute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India 2 Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Lab, Department of Zoology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana 500007, India 2 Wildlife Insttute of India, Post Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Utarakhand 248001, India 3 No. 94, 5th Cross, Raghavendra Colony, Vidyaranyapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560097, India 4 Chennai Snake Park, Rajbhavan Post, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600022, India 1 peltopelorgmail.com (corresponding author), 2 g.chethankumargmail.com, 3 aishwaryaj.ursgmail.com, 4 snakeranglerrgmail.com Abstract: We reassess the systematcs of Hemidactylus scabriceps, a recently rediscovered and poorly known gecko, and elucidate its phylogenetc positon using molecular data for the frst tme. Contrary to previous speculatons prompted by its morphological resemblance to other terrestrial Hemidactylus, our phylogenetc analyses recovered H. scabriceps to be a part of a clade consistng of the large-bodied, rock-dwelling Hemidactylus – the H. prashadi group. Hemidactylus scabriceps also
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