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Schistometopum ephele Taylor 1965

Creators

  • 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Global Genome Initiative, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
  • 2. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • 3. Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 4. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & CIBIO / InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal & Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA
  • 5. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA & Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA

Description

we recommend recognizing these lineages as distinct species and remove

S. ephele Taylor, 1965

from synonymy with S. thomense (Bocage 1873).

Notes

Published as part of O'Connell, Kyle A., Prates, Ivan, Scheinberg, Lauren A., Mulder, Kevin P. & Bell, Rayna C., 2021, Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian, pp. 1-13 in Molecular Ecology 30 (12) on page 9, DOI: 10.1111/mec.15928, http://zenodo.org/record/5827681

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA87F4FFA5FFCA5430CBEF7A60FC4E

Related works

Is part of
Journal article: 10.1111/mec.15928 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5827681 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD3FF8CFFADFFC2561DC867781DFFAC (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Dermophiidae
Genus
Schistometopum
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Gymnophiona
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Taylor
Species
ephele
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Schistometopum ephele Taylor, 1965 sec. O’Connell, Prates, Scheinberg, Mulder & Bell, 2021

References

  • Taylor, E. D. (1965). New Asiatic arid African caecilians with redescrip- tions of certain other species. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 46, 253 - 302. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 20077