1989/01/01 by Darrel R. Frost, Richard Etheridge · 12 citations
Environmental Science · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Species Distribution and Climate Change
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APPENDIX 3 cas, the Fiji Island group and the Tongatapu and Va'vau groups in the Tonga Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, and Madagascar and the Comoro Archipelago in the western Indian Ocean (Fig. The unusual distribution of the family may be an artifact of paraphyly; to date, no apomorphies have been presented to support the monophyly of Iguanidae* exclusive of the Australo-Afro-Asian Acrodonta (Agamidae* [35 genera, 319 species; Wermuth, 1967; Moody, 1980] -I-Chamaeleonidae^[6 genera, 128 species; Klaver and Bohme, 1986]) (Fig. Indeed, Schwenk (1988) has suggested that one group of iguanids (anoles) may be more closely related to Agamidae* + Chamaeleonidae than to other 'We use an asterisk beside a taxonomic name (the metataxon convention-Gauthier, 1986; Gauthier et al., 1988 [cf. Donoghue, 1985]) to denote a nominal supraspecific taxon for which evidence of either monophyly or paraphyly is ambiguous or absent.