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A New Cryptic Species of Calotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Southeastern Xizang Autonomous Region, China

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Wang, Kai, Shu, Fu, Li, Ling, Dong, Wen-Jie, Mu, Hao-Nan, Su, Ming, Zhu, Wen-Bo, Zhang, Meng-Fei, Guo, Ke-Ji, Che, Jing (2025): A New Cryptic Species of Calotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Southeastern Xizang Autonomous Region, China. Zootaxa 5609 (2): 275-285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.8, URL: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.8

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Based on both morphological and genetic data, we describe a new cryptic species of Calotes from southeastern Xizang Autonomous Region, China. The new species was confused with C. paulus, and it is morphologically most similar to members of the C. paulus complex (namely C. paulus, C. sinyik, and C. zolaiking), but the new species shows considerable genetic divergence from closely resembled congeners and can be diagnosed morphologically by having more vertebral crest scales, more scale rows at mid body, and more caudal vertebrae.

With the description of the new species, we also remove C. paulus from the reptile fauna of China.

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