DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NOMEN NUDUM SPECIES OF ANOLIS LIZARD FROMNORTHWESTERN SOUTH AMERICA

摘要

We describe two northern South American Pacific lowland species of Anolis that historically havebeen associated with names that are currently nomina nuda. Anolis lyra new species is similar to Anolis vittigerus butdiffers primarily in possessing smaller dorsal scales on the head and body and in color pattern. Anolis anchicayae newspecies is similar to Anolis peraccae and Anolis fasciatus but differs primarily in size and color pattern. We scored thenew species for skeletal and external morphological phylogenetic characters and performed a parsimony analysiswith 251 additional Anolis species using molecular and morphological data. Anolis anchicayae is sister to A. peraccaein a basal group of South American "alpha" Anolis ("dactyloids," "latifrons" group). Anolis lyra is placed with otherlemurinus-group Anolis within the large clade of mainland "beta" Anolis ("Norops").