FIGURE 6. A in A new cryptic species allied to Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864) (Squamata: Scincidae) from eastern Japan, and diagnoses of the new species and two parapatric congeners based on morphology and DNA barcode

FIGURE 6. A neighbor-joining tree based on Kimura's two-parameter genetic distances of the COI DNA sequences between the 18 observed haplotypes from the 30 specimens. The number at each tip of the tree represents the locality corresponding to those in Fig. 1. The numbers in parentheses indicate the numbers of individuals from the same localities sharing particular haplotypes. The haplotypes with asterisks are those possessed by the holotype of Plestiodon finitimus and the topotypes of P. latiscutatus and P. japonicus. The numbers near the interior branches are bootstrap probabilities from 500 pseudoreplicates.