Effective conservation of threatened biota relies on accurate assessments and scientific *** an unfortunate example,Chinese giant salamanders(Andrias,CGS)remain critically endangered in *** conservation efforts,e.g.,c...
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Effective conservation of threatened biota relies on accurate assessments and scientific *** an unfortunate example,Chinese giant salamanders(Andrias,CGS)remain critically endangered in *** conservation efforts,e.g.,commercial propagation and releasing of millions of likely non-indigenous or interspecific hybrids,have further compromised conservation *** information on wild populations of CGS poses a significant conservation *** 18-month long field monitoring,we now report the discovery of a wild population of CGS in a closed nature reserve in Jiangxi Province,*** assessments reveal its genetic distinctiveness and do not detect genetic admixture with other *** on morphological and molecular evidences,we describe this CGS as a new species Andrias jiangxiensis *** is the only known species of CGS today with a genetically pure,reproducing,in situ *** discovery emphasizes the important role that closed nature reserves play in protecting species,and the necessity of integrating long-term field monitoring and genetic *** sets a new pathway for discovering and conserving endangered species,especially for those biotas that are similarly being extirpated by anthropogenic translocations and overexploitation.
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