taxonID	type	description	language	source
F9BC0A133730DF0DF2FD411DEB71F874.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. A small gymnophthalmid (SVL 42.1 - 45.9 mm, n = 4), which can be characterised by the following combination of characters: 1) body slender, slightly depressed, maximum SVL 45.9 mm in males, 42.1 mm in a single female; 2) head relatively short, pointed, about 1.5 times longer than wide; 3) ear opening distinct, moderately recessed; 4) nasals separated by undivided frontonasal; 5) prefrontals, frontal, frontoparietals, parietals, postparietals and interparietal present; 6) parietals slightly longer than wide; 7) supraoculars four, anteriormost fused with anteriormost superciliar; 8) superciliar series complete, consisting of four scales; 9) nasal shield divided above and below or behind the nostril; 10) loreal separated or in contact with second supralabial; 11) supralabials seven; 12) genials in four pairs, first and second pair in contact; 13) collar present, containing 9 - 11 enlarged scales; 14) dorsals in 33 - 36 transverse rows, rectangular, nearly twice as long as wide, subimbricate, rugose in adults, slightly keeled in juveniles; 15) ventrals in 22 - 25 transverse rows, squared to rectangular, smooth, juxtaposed; 16) scales around mid-body 32 - 34; 17) lateral scales at mid-body reduced in 4 - 7 lines; 18) limbs pentadactyl, all digits clawed, forelimb reaching anteriorly to third supralabial; 19) subdigital lamellae under Finger IV 14 - 16, under Toe IV 18 - 22; 20) femoral pores in males 7 - 9; 21) four large preanal plate scales; 22) tail about 1.5 - 1.7 times longer than body (in juveniles); 23) caudals subimbricate, rugose to slightly keeled dorsally in adults, slightly keeled in juveniles, smooth ventrally; 24) lower palpebral disc transparent, undivided; 25) in life, dorsal surface of head, body and limbs light brown with fine dark brown speckling, dorsal surface of tail light brown with a reddish tint or reddish-brown markings; a tan or yellowish brown vertebral stripe bordered laterally by dark brown, vertebral stripe extends on head anteriorly and on tail caudally (inconspicuous in the female); a narrow dirty white to tan dorsolateral line extending on each side from above the tympanum to pelvic region (discontinuous caudally from the level of forelimbs in adults, reaching posterior edge of orbit in some individuals); a narrow dirty white to tan stripe running from above the orbit across parietals and first postparietals up to the neck (connected with the dorsolateral line in some individuals); a narrow white stripe extending from below of orbit to insertion of forelimbs (bordered dorsally by black in juveniles and some adults); minute ocelli-like white spots on flanks (most conspicuous at forearm insertion, absent in some adults); ventrolateral parts of flanks whitish brown; throat and belly creamy white with fine dark grey speckling inside the individual scales (yellowish white with black speckling in juveniles); ventral surfaces of limbs, anal area and tail yellowish white in males and juveniles, white in the female; iris tan with orange tint in males, tan in the female.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
F9BC0A133730DF0DF2FD411DEB71F874.taxon	description	Description of the holotype. Body slender; legs moderately long, tail regenerated; head length 22.0 % of SVL, head width 14.6 % of SVL; snout pointed, moderately long, eye-nose distance 34.7 % of HL; neck distinct, collar present; head scales smooth; rostral scale wider than long, slightly higher than adjacent supralabials, in contact with frontonasal, nasals, and first supralabials; frontonasal slightly wider than long, prefrontals present, in wide contact medially; frontal longer than wide, in contact with second and third supraoculars; frontoparietals in contact with third and fourth supraoculars, parietals and interparietal; supraoculars four, none in contact with ciliaries; superciliary series complete, consisting of four shields; anteriormost superciliary fused with anteriormost supraocular, in contact with prefrontal and loreal anteriorly; parietals (left divided) in contact with frontoparietal, fourth supraocular, dorsalmost postocular (separated by small interstitial shield on the left side), one temporal and two postparietals; interparietal longer than wide (divided posteriorly), in contact with three postparietals posteriorly; postparietals six; nasal shield divided above and below the nostril, in contact with first and second supralabial; frenocular triangular, in contact with loreal and second, third and fourth (at one point) supralabial ventrally on the left side and with loreal, nasal (at one point) and second and third supralabial on the right side; palpebral disc oval, translucent, undivided; postoculars three; temporals polygonal, supratympanic temporal one; supralabials seven, fifth below the centre of eye; infralabials six; mental wider than long, in contact with first infralabials; postmental single, in contact with first and second infralabials; genials in four pairs, first and second pair in contact medially, first pair in contact with second and third infralabials, second pair in contact with third and fourth infralabials, third pair in contact with fourth and fifth infralabials, fourth pair in contact with fifth and sixth infralabials; gulars 14; plates in collar 11; dorsal scales homogenous, rectangular, longer than wide, subimbricate, rugose, in 34 transverse rows; dorsals (enlarged scales) across body at fifth transverse ventral scale row 10, at 10 th transverse ventral scale row 16, at 15 th transverse ventral scale row 16; laterals (smaller lateral scales) at fifth transverse ventral scale row 8 - 9, at 10 th transverse ventral scale row 4 - 5, at 15 th transverse ventral scale row 4 - 5; ventrals squared to rectangular, juxtaposed, in 23 transverse rows; ventrals across belly at mid-body 10; scales around midbody 32; anterior preanal plate scales two; posterior preanal plate scales four; scales on tail rectangular, subimbricate, slightly keeled dorsally at tail base, smooth and juxtaposed ventrally; subdigital lamellae under Finger IV 14 / 15 (4 / 5 distal lamellae single and smooth, remaining lamellae divided in two subconical segments); subdigital lamellae under Toe IV 19 / 18 (4 / 4 distal lamellae single and smooth, remaining lamellae divided in two subconical segments); femoral pores 9 / 7.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
F9BC0A133730DF0DF2FD411DEB71F874.taxon	description	Measurements of the holotype (in mm). SVL 45.9; TL (tail regenerated) 38.5; HL 10.1; HW 6.7; HD 5.4; EN 3.5; FLL 11.5; HLL 16.5; AGD 25.0.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
F9BC0A133730DF0DF2FD411DEB71F874.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet brava is derived from the Spanish adjective bravo (brave, courageous, wild; brava the feminine form) and refers to Rio Bravo, the largest river in the area of occurrence of the new species, as well as to the fearless nature of the lizard to share shelter with people.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
F9BC0A133730DF0DF2FD411DEB71F874.taxon	distribution	Distribution, natural history, and threat status. Selvasaura brava sp. n. is known from two localities lying at the northeastern border of the Pui Pui Protected Forest, ca. 18 km (straight airline distance) NW of the town of Satipo (Fig. 1). Both localities are located in the valley of the tributary of Rio Bravo (on opposite banks of the tributary) about 500 m (straight distance) from each other. The valley and its slopes are covered by a primary montane rainforest characterized by 15 - 20 m high canopy and frequent occurrence of bromeliads, ferns, and epiphytic mosses (see also Lehr and Moravec (2017). All specimens of S. brava sp. n. were collected during the day within roofs of provisional camp shacks consisting of dried palm leaves and built by locals on small forest clearings (Fig. 8; MorphoBank picture: M 485681). The roofs of the shacks were placed on 1.5 - 4 m pillars made of tree trunks and stood in an open space fully exposed to sun. The activity of all observed specimens seemed correlated with the intensity of solar radiation. During the sunny hours, the animals emerged from their shelters in the leaf layer, climbed and basked on the roof surface and searched for prey. As agile climbers, the lizards were able to climb up thin vertical tree trunks and jump between the palm leaves. These observations indicate that S. brava sp. n. represents an arboreal heliothermic species. Other gymnophthalmid species found at the type locality in sympatry with S. brava sp. n. included Potamites sp. (not included in the genetic analyses), which inhabited banks of small forest brooks, and Proctoporus sp. 4 (sensu this publication, Fig. 3) collected on the ground in the open clearing. With respect to the sparse data available, we suggest classifying S. brava as " Data Deficient " according to the IUCN red list criteria.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
23E2D7D53AB1DE58C10B9146523A130E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Phenotypic synapomorphies are not known for this genus. Morphologically, Selvasaura gen. n. can be distinguished from all other genera of Cercosaurinae by the combination of the following characters: lower palpebral disc transparent, not divided (divided in Andinosaura, Euspondylus, Gelanesaurus, Oreosaurus, Petracola, Riama, and most Anadia and Placosoma species; opaque in Pholidobolus); dorsal scales slightly rugose (smooth in Anadia; keeled in Cercosaura; strongly keeled and tuberculate in Echinosaura, Gelanesaurus, Neusticurus, Potamites; minute tubercles on posterior dorsal scales in Placosoma); lateral scales distinctly smaller than dorsal scales (lateral scales not distinctly reduced in size in Macropholidus); lateral scales adjacent to ventrals non-granular (granular in Proctoporus) (see e. g., Oftedal 1974; Cadle and Chuna 1995; Altamirano-Benavides et al. 2013; Kok et al. 2013; Torres-Carvajal and Mafla-Endara 2013; Echevarria et al. 2015; Borges-Nojosa et al. 2016; Chavez et al. 2017; Sanchez-Pacheco et al. 2017 b). Genetically, the genus is differentiated from the other cercosaurines by distances given in Table 3 and 4.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
23E2D7D53AB1DE58C10B9146523A130E.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Peru: Region Junin, Provincia de Chanchamayo, Pui Pui Protected Forest (Selvasaura brava sp. n.); Region San Martin, Provincia Mariscal Caceres, Laurel (Cercosaurinae sp. 3; Torres-Carvajal et al. 2016). Ecuador: Provincia de Zamora Chinchipe, El Pangui (Cercosaurinae sp. 3; Torres-Carvajal et al. 2016); Provincia de Napo, Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary (Cercosaurinae sp. 3; Torres-Carvajal et al. 2016).	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
23E2D7D53AB1DE58C10B9146523A130E.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The generic name Selvasaura is derived from the Spanish noun ' selva' (forest) and the Greek noun σαύρα (lizard; saura is the feminine form) and refers to the habitat (montane rainforest) of the type species.	en	Moravec, Jiri, Smid, Jiri, Stundl, Jan, Lehr, Edgar (2018): Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests. ZooKeys 774: 105-139, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.774.25332
