The phylogenetic position of ridley's worm lizard reveals the complex biogeographic history of New World insular amphisbaenids

Graboski, Roberta; Grazziotin, Felipe G.; Mott, Tamí; Rodrigues, Miguel Tréfaut

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107518

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“…Furthermore, we only know the report of numerous individuals of Amphisbaena fuliginosa emitting sounds while manipulated during fauna rescues in Amazonas state, Brazil, in 1987 (S. R. Pinheiro, personal communication, 2023). Unfortunately, these sound emissions of A. fuliginosa were not recorded, but since this species and A. alba are closely related species (Graboski et al, 2022), this report raises interesting insights about the extent of acoustic behaviour in Amphisbaena, as well as for amphisbaenians as a whole.…”

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Filling the gap of phonation in reptiles: First record of oral emission of the worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba

Guilhon,

de Oliveira,

Quirino

et al. 2024

Austral Ecology

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So far, the phonation among worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) was virtually unknown, but herein we present for the first time a loud and clear record of sound emission by an amphisbaenian and its acoustic parameters. We observed an adult female of Amphisbaena alba emitting a high‐pitched sound, able to be heard a few meters away by a human ear. The sound was emitted with the mouth wide open and consisted of a short well‐defined note, presenting harmonics and frequency modulation. Based on the context of display and the body posture of the individual, we suggest that the oral emission of A. alba may be considered a defensive sound emission. However, based on the spectral structure of emission within hearing acuity reported for the species, we cannot disregard the possibility that this sound might act in communication with conspecifics. Beyond raising possible defensive and intra‐specific communication roles for the sound emissions of worm lizards, our findings contribute to the understanding of acoustic communication in tetrapods through the analysis of sounds produced by these fossorial reptiles.

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Filling the gap of phonation in reptiles: First record of oral emission of the worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba

Guilhon,

de Oliveira,

Quirino

et al. 2024

Austral Ecology

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“…This pattern and time frame are perfectly congruent with the GAARlandia scenario (Iturralde-Vinent & MacPhee, 1999). While the existence of GAARlandia has been increasingly questioned due to conflicting geological and paleo-oceanographic data (Ali, 2012;Ali & Hedges, 2021), several taxa with different dispersal abilities have been shown to have dispersed to the West Indies during this period such as giant sloths (Delsuc et al, 2019), arthropods (Crews & Esposito, 2020), freshwater fishes (Říčan, Piálek, Zardoya, Doadrio & Zrzavý, 2013), and amphisbaenids (Graboski et al, 2022). However, despite the congruent temporal window, it is still possible that West Indian xenodontines were the result of successive dispersal across the non-contiguous Aves Ridge, as suggested by the jump dispersal model and other taxa with similar patterns (Crews & Esposito, 2020, but see Ali & Hedges, 2021).…”

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“…The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted April 16, 2023. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.15.535132 doi: bioRxiv preprint Grazziotin, Mott & Rodrigues, 2022) or from Asia, via North America (viperid snakes: Wüster, Peppin, Pook & Walker, 2008;turtles: Lichtig, Jasinski & Lucas, 2019).…”

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“…Furthermore, the more recent Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) promoted dispersal and faunal admixture between Central and South American fauna -mainly mammals and birds (Bacon et al, 2015;Defler 2019; South American Amphisbaenidae: Graboski et al, 2022) -despite some evidence of pre-GABI dispersal (Heinicke, Duellman & Hedges, 2007;Agnolin, Chimento & Lucero, 2019).…”

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There and back again: when and how the world’s richest snake family (Dipsadidae) dispersed and speciated across the Neotropical region

Serrano

Pontes-Nogueira

Sawaya

et al. 2023

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Aim: The widespread megadiverse Neotropical snake family Dipsadidae occurs in a large range of diverse habitats. Thus it is an excellent model to understand the diversification of Neotropical biota. Herein, by generating a time-calibrated species-level phylogeny, we investigate the origin and historical biogeography of Dipsadidae and test if its two main Neotropical subfamilies, Xenodontinae and Dipsadinae, have different geographical origins. Location: Neotropical region. Taxon: Dipsadidae (Serpentes). Methods: We generated a new bayesian time-calibrated phylogeny including sequences from six genes for 344 species, including 287 species of Dipsadidae. We subsequently estimated ancestral areas of distribution by comparing models in BioGeoBEARS: DEC (subset sympatry, narrow vicariance), DIVALIKE (narrow and wide vicariance), BAYAREALIKE (no vicariance and widespread sympatry), also testing jump dispersal. Results: The best models show that Dipsadidae likely originated approximately 50 million years ago (mya) in Asia. Dispersal was a fundamental process in its historical biogeography. The DEC model with jump dispersal indicated that this family underwent a range extension from Asia and posterior vicariance of North and Central America ancestors. Both Xenodontinae and Dipsadinae originated in Central America and dispersed to South America during Middle Eocene, but did so to different regions (cis and trans-Andean South America, respectively). Xenodontinae entered cis-Andean South America around 40 mya and jump dispersed to the West Indies around 35 mya, while Dipsadinae entered trans-Andean South America multiple times 20 - 25 mya. Main conclusions: Our results show that Dipsadidae has an Asian origin and that the two main Neotropical subfamilies originated in Central America, later dispersing to South America in different time periods. The current biogeographical patterns of the family Dipsadidae, the most species-rich snake family in the world, have likely been shaped by complex evolutionary and geological processes such as Eocene land bridges, Andean uplift and the formation of the Panama isthmus.

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“…Another way to state this is that, without independent data for a landspan, and given evidence that the lineages in question can immigrate overseas, long-distance dispersal is an appropriate null hypothesis (Dávalos & Turvey, 2012). For instance, immigration timing was potentially congruent with GAARlandia for one lineage of amphisbaenids, but the preferred model for immigration in this group supports overseas dispersal, and the history of Amphisbaenia included two other overseas dispersals into the Caribbean (Graboski et al, 2022). For Heraclides swallowtails, although divergence estimates overlapped with the GAARlandia time frame, Lewis et al (2015) documented two subsequent mainland-island immigrations and preferred a hypothesis of overseas dispersal.…”

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Biogeography of Greater Antillean freshwater fishes, with a review of competing hypotheses

Massip-Veloso,

Hoagstrom,

McMahan

et al. 2023

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In biogeography, vicariance and long-distance dispersal are often characterized as competing scenarios. However, they are related concepts, both relying on reciprocal illumination from geological, ecological, and phylogenetic evidence. This can be illustrated for freshwater fishes, which may immigrate to islands when freshwater connections are temporarily present (vicariance), or by unusual means when oceanic gaps are crossed (long-distance dispersal). Marine barriers have a strong filtering effect, limiting immigrants to those most capable of oceanic dispersal. The roles of landspans and oceanic dispersal are being debated for freshwater fishes of the Greater Antilles. We review three active hypotheses (Cretaceous vicariance, GAARlandia, long-distance dispersal) and propose long-distance dispersal to be an appropriate null model due to a lack of reciprocal illumination for landspan hypotheses. Greater Antillean freshwater fishes have six potential source bioregions (defined from faunal similarity): Northern Gulf of México, Western Gulf of México, Maya Terrane, Chortís Block, Eastern Panamá, and Northern South America. Faunas of the Greater Antilles are composed of taxa immigrating from many of these bioregions, but there is strong compositional disharmony between island and mainland fish faunas (>90% of the species are cyprinodontiforms, compared to <10% in Northern Gulf of México and Northern South America, and ≤50% elsewhere), consistent with a hypothesis of long-distance dispersal. Ancestral area analysis indicates there were 16 or 17 immigration events over the last 51 my, 14 or 15 of these by cyprinodontiforms. Published divergence estimates and evidence available for each immigration event suggest they occurred at different times and by different pathways, possibly with rafts of vegetation discharged from rivers or washed to sea during storms. If so, ocean currents likely provide critical pathways for immigration when flowing from one landmass to another, but create dispersal barriers when flowing perpendicular between landmasses. In addition to high salinity tolerance, cyprinodontiforms (collectively) display a variety of adaptations that could enhance their ability to live with rafts (small body size, viviparity, low metabolism, amphibiousness, diapause, self-fertilization). These adaptations likely also helped immigrants establish island populations after arrival and persist long term thereafter. Cichlids may have used a pseudo bridge (Nicaragua Rise) to reach the Greater Antilles, persisting only on the largest islands (Cuba, Hispaniola). Gar (Lepisosteidae) may have crossed the Straits of Florida to Cuba, a relatively short crossing that is not a barrier to gene flow for several cyprinodontiform immigrants. Indeed, widespread distributions of Quaternary migrants (Cyprinodon,Gambusia,Kryptolebias), within the Greater Antilles and among neighbouring bioregions, imply long-distance dispersal is not necessarily inhibitory for well-adapted species, even though it appears to be virtually impossible all other freshwater fishes.

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The phylogenetic position of ridley's worm lizard reveals the complex biogeographic history of New World insular amphisbaenids

Cited by 11 publications

References 99 publications

Filling the gap of phonation in reptiles: First record of oral emission of the worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba

Filling the gap of phonation in reptiles: First record of oral emission of the worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba

There and back again: when and how the world’s richest snake family (Dipsadidae) dispersed and speciated across the Neotropical region

Biogeography of Greater Antillean freshwater fishes, with a review of competing hypotheses

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