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A New Species of High Andean Anadia (Sauria: Teiidae) from Paramo el Riecito, Estado Trujillo,VenezuelaAuthor(s): Enrique La Marca and Juan Elas Garca-PrezSource: Herpetologica, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 275-282Published by: Herpetologists' LeagueStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3892970 .

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Herpetologica,46(3), 1990, 275-282? 1990by The Herpetologists'League,Inc.

A NEW SPECIES OF HIGH ANDEAN ANADIA(SAURIA:TEIIDAE) FROM PARAMOEL RIECITO,ESTADO TRUJILLO,VENEZUELAENRIQUE LA MARCA' AND JUAN ELIAS GARCIA-PtREZ2

lLaboratoriode Biogeografra,Escuela de Geograffa,Facultad de Ciencias Forestales,Universidadde Los Andes, ApartadoPostal 116, Merida5101-A, Venezuela2Departamentode Biologfa,Facultad de Ciencias, Universidadde Los Andes,Merida 5101, VenezuelaABSTRACT: A new species of lizard, Anadia hobarti, is described from the Paramo El Riecito,Estado Trujillo, in the Venezuelan Andes. The species belongs to the Anadia bitaeniata Group, anassemblage of high montane teiid lizards from the northern Andes. It is distinguished from othermembers of the group by the presence of interfemoral pores (located on ventral scales), its higherfemoral pore count, the smaller number of scales between pore rows, the number of scales between

adpressed limbs, and the presence of pale spots on its flanks.Key words: Reptilia; Sauria; Teiidae; Anadia; Anadia hobarti; Taxonomy; Paramo; Venezuela

ANADIA is a Neotropical genus of teiidlizards distributed from CostaRica east toVenezuela and south to Ecuador. The ge-nus is arranged currently into five speciesgroups (Oftedal, 1974), three of which oc-cur in Venezuela. Of the Venezuelan taxa,just two groups inhabit high montane en-vironments:the A. marmorata Group, inthe Venezuelan Cordillera de La Costa,and the A. bitaeniata Group, in the Cor-dillera de Merida and the Venezuelanspurof the Cordillera Oriental de Colombia.The A. bitaeniata Groupis represented inVenezuela by A. bitaeniata Boulenger,A.brevifrontalis (Boulenger), and A. pam-plonensis Dunn. Two of these species (A.bitaeniata and A. brevifrontalis) inhabitsome of the highest environments of theAndesof EstadoMerida.Anadia bitaenia-ta occupies cloud forests at 2400 m in theRio Mucujun valley up to 3100 m in theParamo de La Culata (personal observa-tion), whereas A. brevifrontalis inhabitsparamos from 2900 m (Oftedal, 1974) to3600 m (Lancini, 1968) in the Escorial andMucubajiregions.In 1987, as part of a herpetologicalsur-vey of Venezuelan p'aramos n the Cor-dillera de Merida, we collected 10 speci-mens of an undescribedspecies of Anadiafrom a paramoin the EstadoTrujillo.Fol-lowing the group characterization givenby Oftedal (1974) and Harris and Ayala(1987), the lizards were assigned to the A.bitaeniata Group, in spite of the fact that

it has not been designated a unique de-rived charactersuggestingthe monophylyof the assemblage.The objectof this paperis to describe this taxon.Anadia hobarti sp. nov.Figs. 2-5

Holotype.-ULABG (Coleccionde An-fibios y Reptiles del Laboratorio de Bio-geografiade la Universidad de LosAndes,Merida, Venezuela) 1715, an adult malefrom Paramo El Riecito, 2625 m, fromnear the headwatersof Rio Castan and RioRiecito (a.k.a. Esdora), S of the village ofOrtiz, about 15 km straight line SE of thecity of Trujillo, Distrito and Estado Tru-jillo, Venezuela (about 9?14'N and 70?24'W: Fig. 1). Collected by E. La Marca, 18April 1987.Paratopotypes (nine total).-ULABG1713, with the same data as the holotype;ULABG 1719-1724, EBRG (Coleccion deAnfibiosy Reptilesde la EstacionBiologicade Rancho Grande, Maracay) 2131, andMCNC (Museo de Ciencias Naturales deCaracas) 6462, collected by Juan EliasGarcia Pe'rezand Enrique La Marca, 7May 1987.Diagnosis.-The new taxon is distin-guished from all other members of the bi-taeniata group by the presence of 2-4 in-terfemoral pores located on ventral scales(Fig. 5) and, correspondingly,fewer scales(0-2) between the pore rows. The closestconditionis thatexhibitedby Anadia pam-

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72 71 70FIG. 1.-Map showing localities in the VenezuelanAndes for species of the bitaeniata Group. Dashedline indicates border with Colombia. Symbols rep-resent the species as follows: star, indicated by anarrow, Anadia hobarti; square, A. brevifrontalis; cir-cle, A. bitaeniata; triangle, A. pamplonensis. Dottedarea indicates Venezuelan Andes above 2000 m.

plonensis which has "inner femoral poreslocated preanally" (Harris and Ayala,1987). The main difference between thesetwo species is that those inner pores in A.pamplonensis are femoral in relationship(that is, ubicated on femoral scales), while

in A. hobarti, the interfemoral pores areubicated on ventral scales. Furthermore,the femoral pore series in A. hobarti oc-cupy almost the entire length of the thigh,whereas in A. pamplonensis the pores areconfined to the proximal portion of thethigh. Anadia hobarti has 11-13 total fem-oral pores (10-12 femoral and 1-2 inter-femoral pores) at each side, a conditionthat is among the highest in the group,with the exception of A. bitaeniata whichhas from 7-11 femoral pores at each side.Even when an overlap in number of poresoccurs between these two species, thenumber of intermediate scales between therows of pores are different. In A. hobarti,they range from 0-2, while in A. bitae-niata, they are from 6-8 (Table 1).Adult females of Anadia hobarti have7-9 scales between adpressed limbs, whileadult females of A. bitaeniata have 2-3.Adult males of the new species have digitsthat superimpose when limbs are ad-pressed along body axis, while adult malesof A. brevifrontalis have five scales be-tween the adpressed limbs.Anadia hobarti has pale spots on flanks(Fig. 2), a character that has not been re-ported elsewhere in the species group, ex-cept in A. pulchella. In A. pulchella, thereare 5-9 femoral pores, and there are nosubocular scales protruding between su-pralabial scales, while in A. hobarti there

FIG. 2.-Anadia hobartiholotype (ULABG 1715). Note pale spots on flanks. From a color slide by P. Soriano.


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FIG. 3.-Anadia hobartiholotype ULABG 1715. Dorsal view of the head. Line = 5 mm.

are 10-12 femoral plus 1-2 interfemoralporesand at leastone subocularprotrudingdownward. A comparison of traits be-tween A. hobartiand the remainingspeciesof the A. bitaeniata Group is given in Ta-ble 1.Description of holotype.-Body slen-der; head enlarged posterolaterally (Fig.3); nasalsingle, without groove below nos-tril; nasal not contacting rostral;nasal con-tacting loreal; frontonasalwider anterior-ly, about same width as frontal, notcontacting frontal; prefrontals one and ahalf times longer than wide; prefrontalscontacting loreal, nasal, pre- and supra-ocular scales; eight supralabials;five en-larged infralabials; one sublabial; lorealcontacts second and third supralabialsonleft side and second supralabial on right

side;prefrontalsmeeting to form a midlinesutureaboutone half length of prefrontals;one presupraocular;hree supraoculars, hemiddle narrowest and smallest,contactingsuperciliaries;six superciliaries in unbro-ken row between supraoculars and cili-aries; superciliaries separated from cili-ariesby one rowof tiny scales;eight ciliariesof upper lid on left side and seven on rightside; five large lower palpebrals, subhex-agonal, slightly dusted with pigment; sub-oculars separated from palpebralsby tworows of tiny scales; three suboculars,sub-equal in size, two with an angular down-ward protrusion:one between fourth andfifthsupralabials nd anotherbetween fifthand sixth(Fig. 4); firstand thirdsubocularssubequal in size and larger than othersubocular(s); rontoparietalsslightly wider


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FIG. 4.-Anadia hobarti holotype ULABG 1715. Lateral view of the head, left side. Line = 5 mm.posteriorly, one and a half times longerthan wide, forming a long common suture;interparietal hexagonal, twice as long aswide, narrower hanfrontal,anteriorwidthslightly narrowerthan posterioredge; in-terparietal forming angular suture withoccipitalsand frontoparietals,anterioran-

gle being less than posterior angle; scalesof first occipital row larger than those ofsecond; scalesof second occipital row larg-er than nape scales;ear opening with tworows of granularscales, the inner row with10 and the outer row with five scales; hor-izontal length of ear opening about half

FIG. 5.-Anadia hobarti MCNC 6462. Ventral view showing femoral and interfemoral pores, and hemi-penes. Pores stained with ink. Line = 5 mm.


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September 1990] HERPETOLOGICA 279TABLE 1.-Comparative matrix of distinguishing traits among members of the Anadia hitaeniata Group.Abbreviations are: ALT = A. altaserrania, BIT = A. bitaeniata, BRE = A. brevifrontalis, HOB = A. hobarti,PAM = A. pamplonensis, PUL = A. pulchella.

Characters ALT BIT BRE HOB PAM PULDorsal scales count 45-47 32-42 40-50 42-48 35-42 38-45Ventral scales count 32-33 27-31 29-37 31-35 30-35 30-34Midbody annulus scales count 38 31-41 30-38 36-40 33-39 37-45Scales between adpressed ? 0 (&d) 5 (&3) 0 (&8) 0 (&6) ?limbs (adults only)' 2-3 (22) 7 (99) 7-9 (22) ? ?Femoral pores 3-4 7-11 5-10 10-12 5-8 5-9Interfemoral pores 0 0 0 1-2 0 0Scales between femoral ?16 6-8 6 8 0-2 4 ?8-14pores rowLateral spots absent absent absent present absent presentLip coloration spotted dark dark pale pale paleVenter/palm-sole spotted/ dark/pale dark/dark dark/pale pale/pale pale2/?coloration ? paleVenter/subfemoral spotted/ dark/pale dark/dark dark/pale pale/pale pale2/palecoloration ?spottedVenter/subcaudal spotted/ dark/pale dark/dark dark/pale pale/pale pale2/palecoloration spottedVentral scales IMBR.3 JUXT.4 JUXT. JUXT. IMBR. IMBR.

IScales were not counted when digits of the adpressed limbs were superimposed.The most common pattern is a pale background with two irregular rows of pale brown spots.IMBR. = Imbricated.JUXT. = Juxtaposed.

horizontal engthof eye;single median chinshield followed by two pairs of large andone pair of small shields, anterior pair inbroad medial contact, middle pair medi-ally separated by two tiny scales; gularscalessquarish;no gular crease or gutturalfold; collar fold conspicuous; 10 enlargedscales in collar rows; lateral neck scalessmallerthan, but blending gradually withgulars and those of nape.Dorsal scales rectangular, smooth, un-keeled, one and a half times longer thanwide, slightly rounded behind, arrangedin 43 imbricate transverserows from pos-terior end of ear to base of tail; lateralscales smallerand lessregular n shapethandorsals;transverse rows of scales formingbody annuli, except in the postaxillaryandpreinguinal granular zones; 35 scales inmidbody annulus; ventral scales rectan-gular,with roundedposterioredges, slight-ly larger than dorsals,arranged in 33 jux-taposed transverse owsfromcollar to vent;three transverse rows of rectangular en-largedscalesconstituting he preanalplate;eigth marginal preanal scales; 11 promi-nent femoral pores in left thigh and 12 inright thigh; two interfemoral pores; rowof femoral and interfemoral pores sepa-ratedby two preanalscales;14scalesunderfourth finger of left hand; 18 scales under

and 14 above fourthtoe of hind limb;scalesof limbs pentagonal, rhomboid or subeir-cular,imbricate(exceptwhere granularonpalms,soles, underdigits, axillaeand post-femoral surfaces); scales of tail rectangu-lar, subimbricateanteriorly to juxtaposedposteriorly;dorsal tail scales smaller thanventral for full length of tail.Coloration in life (from E. La MarcaField Notes, April 1987).-Dorsum uni-formly dark gray; flankssame as dorsum,with yellowish-cream spots; yellowish-creambandalongupperlip (Fig. 2);throat,venter, and ventral surface of tail yellow-ish-cream, with a slight green hue.Coloration in preservative. Dorsumdark olive, without markings;flankssameas dorsum,with cream spots;gular regionand lower part of supralabials to tympa-num, pale gray;ventralregion from collarto cloacal opening highly pigmented withdark gray; ventral portion of tail cream;posterior part of thighs pale cream withscattered dark pigmentation; ventral sur-face of palmspale cream,with digits some-what darker;dorsalsurface of digits withalternate dark and pale scales.Measurements of holotype (in mm).-Snout-vent length 86.1; tail length 151.2;head length 19.5;head width (atparietals)13; comparative data between the holo-


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TABLE 2.-Comparative data of specimens of type series of Anadia hobarti (measurements in mm). SVL =snout-vent length, TL = tail length, HL = head length, HW = head width, FP = femoral pores, IFP =interfemoral pores, SBFPR = scales between femoral plus interfemoral pore rows, SBAL = scales betweenadpressed limbs (see Table 1).Sex SVL TL HL HW FP IFP SBFPR SBALd Museum No.M 86.8 20.6 15.0 11 1 2 0 ULABG 1721M 86.1 151.2 19.5 13.0 11 (12)- 1 2 0 ULABG 1715M 82.4 18.2 13.8 10 1 2 0 EBRG 2131M 78.3 17.3 12.2 11 + lc 2 0 0 ULABG 1720M 70.0 - 15.1 11.0 11 + IC 1 2 0 ULABG 1719M 67.2 14.1 10.2 10 (11). 2 1 0 MCNC 6462M 59.4 99.5 13.0 8.5 11 1 2 2 ULABG 1713M 54.2 12.0 7.2 10 1 2 5 ULABG 1723F 83.0 16.4 10.0 11 (1O)a 1 (2)b 1 7 ULABG 1724F 68.0 95.8 13.0 8.0 11 2 1 9 ULABG 1722

Number in parentheses is femoral pore count on right side.Number in parentheses is interfemoral pore count on right side.Additional number indicates accessory pore: i.e., a femoral pore located below the main row of femoral pores and not considered as part ofthe latter.11Taken with forelimbs and hindlimbs adpressed to sides of body, with nails extended.

type and the paratypes are given in Ta-ble 2.Variation (n = 10).-Frontonasal nar-rower anteriorlyin MCNC 6462, equal inwidth in ULABG 1720, contacting supra-labial in EBRG 2131, ULABG 1719, 1723(only on right side), and 1724; suture ofprefrontal scales, one fourth to one halflength of prefrontals;two supraoculars nEBRG 2131 and ULABG 1720; three tosixsuperciliaries;one row of minute upperpalpebralsin ULABG 1719 (only on rightside) and EBRG 2131; ciliaries 6-8; 3-5suboculars, protruding between (third,fourth), (fourth, fifth) and (fifth, sixth) su-pralabials;only one protrusion nto supra-labials at each side of head in EBRG2131and ULABG 1723; 3-5 subhexagonal toquadrangular palpebral scales; only onerow of tiny scales between palpebral andsubocular scales in ULABG 1723; six in-fralabials (excepting five in right side ofEBRG2131 and ULABG 1722, five in leftside of ULABG 1724, and seven in rightside of ULABG 1723); none or 1-2 rowsof ear opening granules, of variable num-ber;horizontallength of ear opening fromone-half to same length as the eye diam-eter; three to four pairs of chin shields;suturebetween second pair of chin shieldsabsent to 3/4 times length of shield; inter-parietal shield subhexagonal to quadran-gular,one and a half to two times narrowerthan frontal; collar row scales 8-13; 2-3transverserows of enlargedscalesposteriorto collar fold.

Transverserows of dorsalscales, 42-48;31-35 transverse owsof ventralscales;36-40 scales on midbody annulus;6-8 scalesline anteriorborderof vent; 1-2 interfem-oralporesplus 10-12 femoralporeson eachside; one accessory pore on each side inULABG 1719 and 1720, located below thespace between the first and second pore inthe preanal region (Table 2); no preanalscale separatingrows of interfemoral andfemoral pores in ULABG 1720, but justone preanal scale in MCNC 6462 (Fig. 5),ULABG 1722, and 1724; 13-15 scales un-der fourth finger; 15-20 scalesunder, and10-14 above, fourth toe.Sexual dimorphism.-Some secondarysexualcharacters occur in adult males butnot in adult females, as indicated by thefollowing proportionsand the correspond-ing t-test of the sample: (adult males n =6, adult females n = 2, juvenile male n =1); ratio head width/head length: adultmales (x = 0.72) versus adult females (x =0.62), 0.001 < P < 0.01; adult femalesversus juvenile male (x = 0.60), P > 0.1;adult males versus adult females plus ju-venile male (x = 0.61), P < 0.001. Scalesbetween adpressed limbs: adult males (x= 0) versus adult females (x = 8), P 0.1; adult males versusadultfemales plus juvenile male (x = 7), P


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found between 1100 and 1300 h underrocks in the same place. The difference inthe number of individuals under rocksonthese two days seems to correspondto theactivity periods I and III ("under rockretreats" and "moving outside rock re-treats", respectively) reported by Swain etal. (1980) for Anadia brevifrontalis in theParamode Mucubaji, Estado Merida.A clutch of two eggs (ULABG 1714),each egg about 16 mm long by 10 mmwide, was found under a rock. A com-munal nest, such as those seen in anotherparamo species (e.g., Anadia brevifron-talis reported by Swain et al., 1980, andA. bitaeniata, personal observation) wasfound in one instance. This nest shelteredfour pairsof eggs and two adult specimensof the new species. No other species ofreptiles were found at the type locality.Several frogs (cf. Eleutherodactylus lan-cinii Donoso-Barros)were also takenat thetype locality. One Eleutherodactylusshared a rock shelter with an Anadia ho-barti.Anadia hobarti, like all Anadia lizardsof the bitaeniata Group, has an evidentsexualdimorphismin head size. Althoughwe did not observeagonisticbehavior, herewere indications suggestive of aggressiveinteractionsin the form of head scars andregeneratedtails in about 75%of the sam-ple of males and regenerated tail in onefemale (ULABG 1724) of two. The sexualdimorphism in head size, along with thehead marksand regenerated tails, suggeststhat Anadia hobarti may have agonisticbehavior. The first report of agonistic be-havior in a species of the group was givenby Fouquette (1968) for A. brevifrontalis.In A. hobarti, the hypothesized agonisticbehavior may be the product of the scar-city of sheltering sites, which in paramohabitatsmay be a limiting resource.Etymology.-The specific name ho-barti is a patronymic noun in the genitivesingular,honoringDr. HobartMuirSmith,one of the world's greatest and most pro-ductive herpetologists.

Acknowledgments. -The senior author thanks Dr.H. M. Smith for his continuous counseling and warmfriendship. Before dedicating the new species to him,Dr. Smith kindly read and commented upon an earlyversion of this paper. P. Soriano and D. Cabello pro-vided working space at the Grupo de Ecologia Ani-


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282 HERPETOLOGICA [Vol. 46, No. 3mal, Facultad de Ciencias, of the Universidad de LosAndes (ULA). P. Soriano graciously took the pictureused in Fig. 2. The black and white picture for Fig.5 was kindly taken by A. Sulbaran through the cour-tesy of Dr. E. Palacios Pru, of the Centro de Micros-copia Electr6nica ULA. Dr. A. R. Lancini, Dr. H. M.Smith, and Dr. P. Vanzolini provided pertinent lit-erature. Specimens of Anadia pamplonensis were ex-amined through the courtesy of Dr. A. R. Lanciniand Lic. P. Delgado (MCNC). A drawing showingfemoral pores and femoral scales of the holotype ofAnadia pamplonensis (ANSP 20835) was kindly pro-vided by one anonymous referee. We also thank D.Borjasand M. Teran for camping assistance and com-panionship. The manuscript has greatly profited fromthe comments of the editors and three anonymousreferees. All responsibilities remain ours, however.This work was supported in part by Grants S1-2053,from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cien-tificas y Tecnol6gicas de Venezuela (CONICIT), andFo-223.89, from the Consejo de Desarrollo Cientifico,Humanistico y Tecnol6gico de la Universidad de LosAndes (CDCHT-ULA), to the senior author.

LITERATURE CITEDFOUQUETTE, JR., M. J. 1968. Observations on thenatural history of microteiid lizards from the Ven-ezuelan Andes. Copeia 1968:881-884.HARRIS, D. M., AND S. C. AYALA. 1987. A newAnadia (Sauria: Teiidae) from Colombia and res-

toration of Anadia pamplonensis Dunn to speciesstatus. Herpetologica 43:182-190.LANCINI,A. R. 1968. El genero Euspondylus (Sau-ria: Teiidae) en Venezuela. Publ. Ocas. Mus. Cienc.Natur. Caracas, Venezuela; Zoologia 12:1-8.MONASTERIO, M. 1980. Las formaciones vegetalesde los paramos de Venezuela. Pp. 93-158. In M.Monasterio (Ed.), Estudios ecol6gicos de los Para-

mos andinos. Ed. Univ. Los Andes, Merida, Ven-ezuela.OFTEDAL, 0. T. 1974. A revision of the genus An-adia (Sauria, Teiidae). Arq. Zool. Mus. Zool. Univ.Sao Paulo 25:203-265.SWAIN, T. A., F. ARP, AND R. D. YOUNKIN. 1980.A preliminary report on the ecology of a tropical,high altitude lizard, Anadia brevifrontalis.J. Her-petol. 14:321-326.

Accepted: 6 December 1989Associate Editor:John IversonAPPENDIX I

Specimens Examined (34)Anadia bitaeniata.-VENEZUELA: Estado Meri-da: Cloud forest above Monterrey, 2500 m, ULABG1409; Paramo de La Culata, 3200 m, ULABG 1646-

1647; cloud forest above Truchicultura de Monterrey,2400 m, ULABG 1731; Asentamiento CampesinoMonterrey, 7 km NE Merida, 2400 m, CVULA (Co-lecci6n de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Los An-des, Mrida) 4643-4645, MCNC 6514.Anadia brevifrontalis. -VENEZUELA: EstadoMerida: Paramo de Mucabaji, CVULA-IV 471-477,CVULA-IV 765, 1568; Paramo de Mucubaji, 3400 m,CVULA-IV 4794; Morrena terminal, laguna de Mu-cubaji, Paramo de Mucubaji, ULABG 1535; Nr. LaVenta, 3100 m, 17 km on road from Pico del Aguilato La Venta, ULABG 1569.Anadia marmorata.-VENEZUELA: Estado Ara-gua: Rancho Grande, ULABG 1514.Anadia pamplonensis. -VENEZUELA: EstadoTachira: Distrito Junin: Villa Paez, MCNC 6504, 6518.Anadia hobarti sp. nov.-VENEZUELA: EstadoTrujillo: Paramo El Riecito, 2625 m, 15 km SE Tru-jillo, ULABG 1715 (holotype), and ULABG 1713,1719-1724; MCNC 6462, EBRG 2131 (all paratopo-types); ULABG 1714 (clutch of two eggs).

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