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, close to sea level), southeastern
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFF0D281CE86DF9B8" bold="true" box="[151,271,1543,1569]" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. The new species can be assigned to the
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group based on the characters listed in the group definition above, especially by the presence of a semi-divided mental scale and the presence of two postmental scales. Within this group, it differs from
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and
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by the presence of a large and very distinct black spot (encircling a smaller white spot) above and in front of the insertion of forelimbs (absent in
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,
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only small spots present in
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFD4728B8EA12F925" box="[733,880,1699,1724]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">L. tuberosus</emphasis>
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). It further differs from
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by having 7 infralabial scales (vs. 46), and from
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and
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by the apparent absence of a claw on the first finger.
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Species in the
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFEEE290CEB0BF8A9" box="[372,617,1815,1840]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">L. madagascariensis</emphasis>
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group share with the new species a number of only two postmentals and the absence of a claw on the first finger, but in these species, the mental scale is undivided. A claw on the first finger is also absent in
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFE67297FEBEEF8E4" box="[509,652,1892,1917]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">L. mirabilis</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFD3A297FEA2CF8E4" box="[672,846,1892,1917]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">L. intermedius</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFC09297FED4BF8E4" box="[915,1065,1892,1917]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">L. montanus</emphasis>
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, but these species are readily distinguished by their keeled or partially keeled dorsal scales (versus granular dorsal scales in
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F22FFDEFB722990EC1CF83D" box="[1256,1406,1931,1956]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="32">L. roavolana</emphasis>
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).
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We cannot fully exclude that the absence of a claw on the first finger in the new species may be an artefact, because we could verify it on only one forelimb in a single specimen. However, the new species is also diagnosed by its unique colour pattern: the conspicuous pair of large ocellae above the forelimbs is not known from any other species of Malagasy
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Description of
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. Adult male, hemipenes everted, in good state of preservation, although the tail is broken and one forelimb is partly removed as source of tissue for molecular analysis. SVL
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, tail regenerated (TAL
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) for other measurements see
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; granular dorsal scales; first finger present but very small, without bearing a claw; 4 pairs of subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; mental scale semidivided into three parts by sutures; only slight contact between posterior projection of mental scale and first infralabial; two symmetrical postmental scales; five postpostmental scales; seven infralabial scales; seven supralabial scales; two internasal scales; six preanal pores; tail without whorls; four weakly expressed dorsolateral tubercles, each composed of 12 scales; 185 dorsal scales along the body; 88 dorsal scales around the body.
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F1DFFE1FF0D292BE843F8D1" bold="true" box="[151,289,1840,1864]" pageId="32" pageNumber="33">FIGURE 15</emphasis>
. Scalation and hemipenial characters of
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, all based on male holotype ZSM 5115/ 2005. (a) head in lateral view (scale bar = 1 mm); (b) black spot above forelimb insertion, photographed in preserved specimen; (c) dorsal view of head (scale bar = 2 mm); (d) throat in ventral view (scale bar = 2 mm), (e) preanal pores in ventral view (scale bar = 1 mm); (f) lamellae of fourth toe in ventral view (scale bar = 2 mm); (g) and (h), sulcal and asulcal views of the hemipenis (scale bar = 1 mm). All drawings by M. Puente; photograph by R. D. Randrianiaina.
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Dorsally light brown on the dorsum and greyish on the flanks, with a pair of indistinct yellowish dorsolateral stripes, one on each side, that start just behind the eye and run onto the tail; at the height of the hindlimbs, these stripes become more distinct and the dorsal area between them more dark brown. Some whitish spots on the upper lip. Above and anterior to the forelimb, there is a large semicircular black marking with a central white spot and bordered ventrally by a distinct short white line. Tail dorsally with some irregular beige-brown marbling. Ventrally, in life, the throat and tail were yellow and the chest and venter white. The throat has an indistinct pattern of irregular and poorly marked dark chevrons and longitudinal stripes (
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,
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F1CFFE0FF5C2FD6E8B0FE7E" bold="true" box="[198,466,461,487]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Hemipenial structure</emphasis>
. Hemipenis subcylindrical, total length ca.
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, with a relatively large pedicel of ca.
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. The apex is divided in two short lobes each of which measures ca.
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in length. The truncus and lobes are covered with fields and serrated ridges of pointed papillae. Sulcus spermaticus formed by two channels (running to the apex of each arm); there are no distinct sulcal lips and no papillae around the sulcus spermaticus. Very similar to the hemipenes of
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and
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F1CFFE0FF5C2C95E831FD31" bold="true" box="[198,339,654,680]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name “roavolana” refers to the Malagasy words
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meaning “two” and
<emphasis id="B940EAD10F1CFFE0FB7A2C94EC52FD31" box="[1248,1328,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">volana</emphasis>
meaning “moon”, and refers to the two extremely conspicuous ocellae of the new species. The name is used as a noun in apposition.
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<emphasis id="B940EAD10F1CFFE0FF5C2D19EB62FC85" bold="true" box="[198,512,770,796]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Habitat and distribution</emphasis>
. The
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was collected in the late afternoon, active on a tree trunk in disturbed low-altitude rainforest, ca.
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above the ground. This species has apparently not been detected during previous surveys in the nearby Andohahela reserve (
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,
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Nussbaum
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1999
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). However, the species has more recently been recorded from this reserve (
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).
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