A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)

Author(s)

Morales, Cristian Hernandez ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Sturaro, Marcelo J. ^{[1, 4]} ; Sales Nunes, Pedro M. ^[5] ; Lotzkat, Sebastian ^[6] ; Peloso, V, Pedro L.

Affiliation

^[1] Coordenacao Zool, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Ave Perimetral 1901, BR-66077530 Belem, Para - Brazil

^[2] Sam Houston State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Huntsville, TX 77341 - USA

^[3] V, Univ Fed Para, Inst Ciencias Biol, Rua Augusto Correa 01, BR-66075110 Belem, Para - Brazil

^[4] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Ecol & Biol Evolut, Av Prof Artur Riedel 275, BR-09972270 Diadema, SP - Brazil

^[5] Univ Fed Pernambuco, Av Prof Moraes Rego S-N, BR-50670901 Recife, PE - Brazil

^[6] Staatl Museum Nat Kunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart - Germany

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: CLADISTICS; v. 36, n. 3 JAN 2020.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

Alopoglossidae is a family of Neotropical lizards composed of 23 species allocated in two genera (Alopoglossus and Ptychoglossus). There is a lack of knowledge about the phylogenetic relationships and systematics of this family. Published phylogenies that include alopoglossid species have very low taxon coverage within the family, and are usually based on limited character sampling. Considering these shortcomings, we infer the phylogenetic relationships of Alopoglossidae-including all but one species in the family-based on the combined analyses of DNA sequences and morphological characters. We use four loci (the mitochondrial 12S, 16S and ND4; the nuclear C-mos) and a matrix of 143 phenotypic characters from scutellation, tongue morphology, hemipenis morphology, and osteology. The dataset is analyzed with Maximum Parsimony, with four alternative weighting schemes: three under Extended Implied Weighting, and one with equal weighting. The respective resulting topologies are compared in a sensitivity analysis framework. Our analyses support the paraphyly of Ptychoglossus, with Alopoglossus nested within it. We provide an updated classification for the family, where Ptychoglossus Boulenger, 1890 is considered a junior synonym of Alopoglossus Boulenger, 1885. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 07/00811-8 - Hemipenial morphology of microteiid lizards and their implications on phylogenetic relationships of the Gymnophtalmidae family
• Grantee: Pedro Murilo Sales Nunes
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate