Facing a slithery dragon: systematics of the Petracola ventrimaculata (Boulenger, 1900) species complex (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) with description of five new species

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Authors: Lourdes Y. Echevarría
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Supporting Information Supplementary material: Table 1S. Uncorrected pairwise 16S distances within Petracola. Table 2S. Main color pattern characteristics, in life, of P. amazonensis, P. pajatensis, P. shurugojalcapi, P. ventrimaculata sensu stricto and the new species described in this paper. Figure 1S. Maximum Likelihood tree (log-likelihood = -55466.6408) depicting the phylogenetic relationships of Cercosaurinae. SH-aLRT and Ultrafast Bootstrap values are shown on the left and right, respectively. Support values ≥80 for SH-aLRT and ≥ 95 for UB are represented by an asterisk.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
6 January 2026
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EN