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<mods:title>Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Jiří Šmíd</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Jiří Moravec</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Petros Lymberakis</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Paschalia Kapli</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Andreas Schmitz</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani</mods:namePart>
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sp. n.
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A species of
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species complex as revealed by the genetic analyses and characterised by the following combination of characters: (i) genetic (uncorrected) distance of 2.0% from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. brevirostris</emphasis>
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and 2.8% from
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<emphasis box="[1320,1468,1625,1649]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. microlepis</emphasis>
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for the
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(after Gblocks); 2.9% from
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<emphasis box="[1241,1401,1660,1684]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. brevirostris</emphasis>
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, 3.3% from
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<emphasis box="[886,1027,1695,1719]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. bernoullii</emphasis>
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and 4.0% from
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<emphasis box="[1228,1376,1695,1719]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. microlepis</emphasis>
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for the
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(after Gblocks); 9.5% from
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<emphasis box="[1177,1336,1729,1753]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. brevirostris</emphasis>
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, 7.5% from
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<emphasis box="[820,961,1764,1788]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. bernoullii</emphasis>
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and 10.8% from
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<emphasis box="[1145,1293,1764,1788]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. microlepis</emphasis>
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for the
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; (ii) low number of dorsal scales (4142); (iii) low number of collar plates (68); (iv) low number of preanal scales (23); (v) low number of femoral pores in males (1213); (vi) having 12 large semitransparent scales in the lower eyelid window; (vii) in life, dorsum light cinnamonbrown with a pattern of small whitish and larger dark cinnamon spots arranged in more or less regular longitudinal rows. Most of the whitish spots are not edged with dark brown colour. The dark cinnamonbrown spots predominate on flanks where they form a characteristic longitudinal lateral row that continues onto the tail. Ventral side is bright white, sharply contrasting with the colouration of the dorsum.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="10.[119,509,686,901]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[119,254,688,710]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">F I G U R E 4</emphasis>
Holotype of
<taxonomicName authority="Jiří Šmíd &amp; Jiří Moravec &amp; Václav Gvoždík &amp; Jan Štundl &amp; Daniel Frynta &amp; Petros Lymberakis &amp; Paschalia Kapli &amp; Thomas Wilms &amp; Andreas Schmitz &amp; Mohammed Shobrak &amp; Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani &amp; Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani &amp; Aurora M. Castilla &amp; Johannes Els &amp; Werner Mayer, 2017" authorityName="Jiří Šmíd &amp; Jiří Moravec &amp; Václav Gvoždík &amp; Jan Štundl &amp; Daniel Frynta &amp; Petros Lymberakis &amp; Paschalia Kapli &amp; Thomas Wilms &amp; Andreas Schmitz &amp; Mohammed Shobrak &amp; Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani &amp; Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani &amp; Aurora M. Castilla &amp; Johannes Els &amp; Werner Mayer" authorityYear="2017" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="saudiarabica" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<taxonomicName box="[399,483,686,708]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Mesalina</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName box="[119,238,718,740]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="species" species="saudiarabica" status="sp. n.">saudiarabica</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[244,293,720,741]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(ZFMK 91912). (a) General body habitus; (b) lateral and (c) dorsal view of the head. More photographs of the specimen are available in high resolution at MorphoBank, project 2355, pictures M407306M407312
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<paragraph blockId="10.[119,768,967,1269]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
Detailed description of
<taxonomicName authority="Jiří Šmíd &amp; Jiří Moravec &amp; Václav Gvoždík &amp; Jan Štundl &amp; Daniel Frynta &amp; Petros Lymberakis &amp; Paschalia Kapli &amp; Thomas Wilms &amp; Andreas Schmitz &amp; Mohammed Shobrak &amp; Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani &amp; Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani &amp; Aurora M. Castilla &amp; Johannes Els &amp; Werner Mayer, 2017" authorityName="Jiří Šmíd &amp; Jiří Moravec &amp; Václav Gvoždík &amp; Jan Štundl &amp; Daniel Frynta &amp; Petros Lymberakis &amp; Paschalia Kapli &amp; Thomas Wilms &amp; Andreas Schmitz &amp; Mohammed Shobrak &amp; Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani &amp; Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani &amp; Aurora M. Castilla &amp; Johannes Els &amp; Werner Mayer" authorityYear="2017" box="[408,583,1209,1233]" class="Reptilia" family="Lacertidae" genus="Mesalina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="saudiarabica" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[408,583,1209,1233]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">M. saudiarabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[591,649,1210,1233]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
is given in the Supplementary Materials.
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