A new species of Liolaemus related to L.
nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania,Liolaemidae) |
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| Authors: | Jaime Troncoso-Palacios Alvaro A. Elorza German I. Puas Edmundo Alfaro-Pardo |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Programa de Fisiologia y Biofisica, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia 1027, Santiago, Chile;2.Centro de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Andres Bello, Republica 239, Santiago, Chile;3.Instituto Milenio de Inmunologia e Inmunoterapia, Portugal 49, Santiago, Chile;4.Gayana Ecolodge, Cadillal Km 7, Corral, Chile |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
The Liolaemusnigroviridis group is a clade of highland lizards endemic to Chile. These species are distributed from northern to central Chile, and currently there are no cases of sympatric distribution. This study describes a new species, Liolaemusuniformissp. n., from this group, and provides a detailed morphological characterization and mitochondrial phylogeny using cytochrome-b. Liolaemusuniformis was found in sympatry with Liolaemusnigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with Liolaemusmonticola and Liolaemusbellii, both of which do not belong to the nigroviridis group. The taxonomic issues of this group that remain uncertain are also discussed. |
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| Keywords: | taxon-name" > genus" >Liolaemus species" >nigroviridis, taxon-name" > genus" >Liolaemus species" >uniformis sp. n., lizard, Cyt-b, mtDNA |
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