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Sep 2026
A new species of Heremites Gray, 1845 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the transboundary Hindu Kush foothills
Abstract The Western Palearctic genus Heremites Gray, 1845 (Scincidae) has a long history of taxonomic uncertainty, with particularly unstable placement of the disjunct Hindu Kush populations reported from eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. Herein this eastern population is reassessed using an integrative d...
Daniel Jablonski, Sylvia Hofmann, M. Idrees et al.
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