A new species of Takydromus (Squamata: Lacertidae) from northeast India Author Chettri, Basundhara 0000-0001-9976-645X Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India bchettri01@cus.ac.in Author Mothey, Rabina 0009-0000-0481-8510 Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India motheyrabina2@gmail.com Author Ghatani, Sudeep 0000-0002-6514-2507 Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India sghatani@cus.ac.in Author Deepak, V. 0000-0002-8826-9367 Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom & Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom veerappandeepak@gmail.com Author Rai, Ananta 0000-0001-6569-4558 Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India & Department of Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India anantarye@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2026 2026-03-03 5763 2 205 224 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5763.2.2 journal article 314961 10.11646/zootaxa.5763.2.2 4f4ffa37-58b9-4d84-90b3-741a9ccd112d 1175-5326 19191183 2813226D-0EF2-46A2-940F-F171B176CAE8

TABLE 1. Uncorrected p– distances (in %) of 12S rRNA and COI among the species of Takydromus used in this study. *Values marked with asterisk are percent difference within species.

	Takydromus sp. (Ultapani, Assam)		T. khasiensis (Nongpoh, Meghalaya)		T. sikkimensis (Sikkim and West Bengal)
	12S rRNA (n=1)	COI (n=1)	12S rRNA (n=1)	COI (n=1)	12S rRNA (n=17)	COI (n=17)
T. khasiensis (Nongpoh, Meghalaya)	4.93	6.92	-	-	-	-
T. sikkimensis (Sikkim and West Bengal)	3.25	7.37–7.62	2.25	4.23–4.91	-	0–0.64 *
T. sexlineatus (Hongkong, Guangxi and Myanmar)	6.33–6.68	16.32–17.64	7.72–8.77	18.4–19.26	6.34–7.51	18.94–19.90
Other Takydromus species	12.49–18.25	19.87–26.17	11.77–18.54	20.69–24.85	12.13–17.82	20.17–26.63