Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41667536›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2026

Systematic revision of the Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis complex with descriptions of six new species.

Hongxin Zhou, Jishan Wang, Keguo Han, Yufan Ang, Dongru Zhang, Shuo Liu, Dingqi Rao

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Hongxin Zhou *Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China.
Jishan Wang *Asian Elephant Research Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Survey and Planning Institute of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Kunming, 650031, Yunnan, China.
Keguo HanBureau of Wenshan National Nature Reserve, Wenshan, 663000, Yunnan, China.
Yufan AngSouthwest Forestry University, Kunming, 650224, Yunnan, China.
Dongru ZhangSchool of Biological Science and Technology, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui, 553004, Guizhou, China. zhdongru@126.com.
Shuo LiuKunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China. liushuo@mail.kiz.ac.cn.
Dingqi RaoKunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China. raodq@mail.kiz.ac.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation Project: Investigation and Classificatory and Phylogenetic Studies on the Lizards of Gekkonidae of China NSFC-31970404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker 1860, one of the fastest-growing genera in the Gekkonidae, comprises 22 species distributed in China, among which Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis is believed to be a species complex. Despite the gradual description of Hemiphyllodactylus populations in various regions of China as new species in the past decade, the taxonomy of the Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis complex remains unresolved. We collected Hemiphyllodactylus populations of the yunnanensis complex from 11 locations. Based on 1809 bp dataset (1039 bp mitochondrial ND2 gene, fragments of 375 bp nuclear C-mos + 395 bp PDC genes) and a solo 1039 bp NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2) sequence fragment dataset, the constructed phylogenetic topology revealed that our samples fell into seven independent lineages of Clade 7. Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery (ABGD) results are consistent with our phylogenetic findings. The uncorrected genetic pairwise distance between populations exceeded 4.2% in ND2 gene, and there were also significant morphological differences among them. Therefore, we consider the specimens that cluster with the topotype specimens as true Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis, and describe the other six lineages as new species, respectively.

Indexed as

LizardsAnimalsChinaDNA Barcoding, TaxonomicDNA, MitochondrialNADH DehydrogenasePhylogenySequence Analysis, DNASpecies SpecificityDNA, MitochondrialNADH DehydrogenaseCryptic speciesIntegrative taxonomySlender geckosYunnan province

Identifiers

PMID41667536
PMCPMC12891681

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.