DOI: 10.15468/7a5x8v
title: Dermatologic conditions of adult refugees following resettlement in the United States, 2015 to 2018.

description: This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Ching, Ann Hui, Tay, Tricia, Brown, Bryan, Mohareb, Amir M, Sethi, Aisha, Annamalai, Aniyizhai (2021): Dermatologic conditions of adult refugees following resettlement in the United States, 2015 to 2018. Journal of Herpetology 7 (7): 105-111, DOI: 10.1670/20-094, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100183ABSTRACT.— A recent taxonomic revision of geckos of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 uncovered cryptic diversity within the Congolese population of H. nzingae CerÍaco, Agarwal, Marques and Bauer, 2020. Herein, we describe an unnamed southern Congolese lineage of H. nzingae as a new species. We base our description on previously published molecular evidence and newly collected morphological, meristic, and coloration data. Members of the group share a conservative morphology, and the newly described species is very similar to H. nzingae from which it differs mostly on the basis of coloration and tubercle scale rows. Our description is the first new species of gecko described from Democratic Republic of the Congo in nearly 7 decades and reinforces the already strong evidence that the country is a hotspot of reptile diversity.The lizard fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the most diverse but understudied on the African continent (Tolley et al., 2016). The DRC harbors more than 100 described species of lizards (Broadley, 1998; Marques et al., 2019; Uetz et al., 2020), although this number is likely to increase substantially in the future (Greenbaum, 2017). Of these species, seven have been described in the past 10 yr (no new lizards from DRC were described in the postcolonial era between 1965 and 2008), including Congolacerta asukului Greenbaum, Villanueva, Kusamba, Aristote and Branch, 2011; Cordylus marunguensis Greenbaum, Stanley, Kusamba, Moninga [sic], Goldberg and Bursey, 2012a; Kinyongia gyrolepis Greenbaum, Tolley, Joma and Kusamba, 2012b; Kinyongia mulƲai Tilbury and Tolley, 2015; Kinyongia itombaeensis Hughes, Kusamba, Behangana and Greenbaum, 2017; Rhampholeon hattinghi Tilbury and Tolley, 2015; and Trachylepis raymondlaurenti Marques, Ceríaco, Bandeira, Pauwels and Bauer, 2019.Currently 19 species of geckos (Gekkonidae) are recognized for the country (Broadley, 1998; Uetz et al., 2020). Of these species, eight belong to the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820, including Hemidactylus cf. angulatus Hallowell, 1854 (formerly attributed to H. brookii); H. echinus O’Shaughnessy, 1875; H. ituriensis Schmidt, 1919; H. longicephalus Bocage, 1873; H. mabouia Moreau de Jonnès, 1818; H. muriceus Peters, 1870; H. richardsonii Gray, 1845; and Hemidactylus cf. nzingae Ceríaco, Agarwal, Marques, and Bauer 2020. Currently with more than 165 recognized species, the genus Hemidactylus is one of the most widespread and speciose genera of geckos on the planet (Uetz et al., 2020). Approximately half of this diversity is known from the African continent from which several recent studies have highlighted its diversity and evolutionary history (Bauer et al., 2010; Šmíd et al., 2013, 2020; Wagner et al., 2014; Ceríaco et al., 2020a,b). The recent taxonomic revision of the Angolan species of the genus (Ceríaco et al., 2020a) was particularly relevant for the knowledge of sub-Saharan African Hemidactylus. The revision by Ceríaco et al. (2020a) was a first attempt to provide a new taxonomic framework for the study of the genus in the continent and set the stage for the revision of several species complexes. One result of this revision that has particular relevance for the knowledge of the DRC gekkonid fauna was the discovery of previously unrecognized diversity within the genus Hemidactylus, including the presence of an undescribed species (member of the African-Atlantic clade) that is the sister taxon of the newly described Angolan endemic species H. nzingae Ceríaco, Agarwal, Marques and Bauer, 2020 (Ceríaco et al., 2020a). The putatively new Congolese taxon had a 10.5% uncorrected pairwise distance from its sister taxon for the mitochondrial gene ND2, a value in line with interspecific genetic distances among other valid and recognized species of Hemidactylus (e.g., the distance between H. paiƲae and H. longcephalus [10.4%]) (Ceríaco et al., 2020a). The Congolese population is known from only two specimens collected in Bombo-Lumene Reserve, southwestern DRC, and besides its phylogenetic affinities, it bears a considerable morphological similarity to its sister taxon. To settle the taxonomic status of this Congolese form, we build on the molecular findings of Ceríaco et al. (2020a) and use newly collected morphological and coloration data to describe the Bombo-Lumene population as a new species.