Resurrection of Bronchocela burmana Blanford, 1878 for the Green Crested Lizard... 141 Resurrection of Bronchocela burmana Blanford, 1878 for the Green Crested Lizard (Squamata, Agamidae) of southern Myanmar George R. Zug 1 , Daniel G. Mulcahy 2 , Jens V. Vindum 3 1 Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, District of Columbia, 20013-7012 USA 2 Global Genome Initiative, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, District of Columbia, 20013-7012 USA 3 Department of Herpetology, Californian Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Ca- lifornia, 94103 USA Corresponding author: George R. Zug (zugg@si.edu) Academic editor: A. Herrel  |  Received 22 December 2016  |  Accepted 31 January 2017  |  Published 20 February 2017 http://zoobank.org/D96FFD28-7945-44EA-9277-8E36B835F50C Citation: Zug GR, Mulcahy DG, Vindum JV (2017) Resurrection of Bronchocela burmana Blanford, 1878 for the Green Crested Lizard (Squamata, Agamidae) of southern Myanmar. ZooKeys 657: 141–156. https://doi.org/10.3897/ zookeys.657.11600 Abstract Recent ieldwork in southern Tanintharyi revealed the presence of a small Green Crested Lizard in the wet evergreen forest. We generated mtDNA sequence data (ND2) that demonstrates that this population’s nearest relative is Bronchocela rayaensis Grismer et al., 2015 of Pulau Langkawi, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia and Phuket Island. Morphologically the Burmese Bronchocela shares many features with B. ray- aensis, which potentially would make this recently described hai-Malay species a synonym of Bronchocela burmana Blanford, 1878; however, we interpret the genetic and morphological diferences to relect evo- lutionary divergence and recommend the recognition of both species. Keywords Reptilia, Southeast Asia, Tanintharyi Division, hailand, Peninsular Malaysia, morphology, molecular phylogeny, synonymy, nomenclature ZooKeys 657: 141–156 (2017) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11600 http://zookeys.pensoft.net Copyright George R. Zug et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. RESEARCH ARTICLE Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A peer-reviewed open-access journal