Proctoporus xestus (Uzzell, 1969)

Mamani, Luis, Goicoechea, Noemí & Chaparro, Juan C., 2015, A new species of Andean lizard Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from montane forest of the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Peru, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 96) 9 (1), pp. 1-11 : 10-11

Proctoporus xestus

BOLIVIA: ( AMNH 22740–41); Cochabamba ( AMNH 38957–62).

Luis Mamani graduated in Biological Sciences from Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco in Perú. He received a bachelor degree in biology in 2013. He is currently an amphibian and reptile researcher at the Herpetological Collection of the Museum of Natural History, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru ( MHNC). He has published a scientific paper in amphibian taxonomy and his interests include biodiversity, taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography of gymnophthalmid lizards.

Noemí Goicoechea earned her B.S. in Biology from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, in 2007 and her M.S. in biodiversity and evolutionary biology from the same university in 2011. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid, Spain), where she is studying species diversity and diversification mechanisms in Andean lizards of the genera Proctoporus and Liolaemus within a phylogenetic and population genetic framework.

Juan Carlos Chaparro graduated in Biological Sciences from Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, Peru. He received a Master’s degree in Biodiversity in Tropical Areas and Conservation in 2013, from a consortium between the International University of Menendez Pelayo (UIMP-Spain), Universidad Tecnologica Indoamerica (UTI-Ecuador), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC-Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Ignacio de la Riva. He is currently curator and researcher of the Herpetological Collection of the Museum of Natural History , Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru ( MHNC). He has published more than 20 scientific papers, and two book chapters on taxonomy, biodiversity, systematics, phylogeny, conservation, and biogeography of South American amphibian and reptiles, with an emphasis on amphibians. He is interested in biodiversity, conservation, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, and biogeography of the neotropical herpetofauna.

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Citations

ICZN. 2012. Amendment of Articles 8,9,10,21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Zootaxa 3450: 1–7.

Polaszek A et al. 2005a. Commentary: A universal register for animal names. Nature 437: 477.

Polaszek A et al. 2005b. ZooBank: The open-access register for zoological taxonomy: Technical Discussion Paper. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 62(4): 210–220.