A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)

Abstract. The Liolaemus nigroviridis 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, Liolaemus uniformis sp. n., from this group, and p...

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Autores principales: Troncoso-Palacios, Jaime, Elorza, Alvaro A., Puas, German I., Alfaro-Pardo, Edmundo
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26877688
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6011
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author Troncoso-Palacios, Jaime
Elorza, Alvaro A.
Puas, German I.
Alfaro-Pardo, Edmundo
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Elorza, Alvaro A.
Puas, German I.
Alfaro-Pardo, Edmundo
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description Abstract. The Liolaemus nigroviridis 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, Liolaemus uniformis sp. n., from this group, and provides a detailed morphological characterization and mitochondrial phylogeny using cytochrome-b. Liolaemus uniformis was found in sympatry with Liolaemus nigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with Liolaemus monticola and Liolaemus bellii, 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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spelling pubmed-47408232016-02-12 A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae) Troncoso-Palacios, Jaime Elorza, Alvaro A. Puas, German I. Alfaro-Pardo, Edmundo Zookeys Research Article Abstract. The Liolaemus nigroviridis 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, Liolaemus uniformis sp. n., from this group, and provides a detailed morphological characterization and mitochondrial phylogeny using cytochrome-b. Liolaemus uniformis was found in sympatry with Liolaemus nigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with Liolaemus monticola and Liolaemus bellii, both of which do not belong to the nigroviridis group. The taxonomic issues of this group that remain uncertain are also discussed. Pensoft Publishers 2016-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4740823/ /pubmed/26877688 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6011 Text en Jaime Troncoso-Palacios, Alvaro A. Elorza, German I. Puas, Edmundo Alfaro-Pardo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 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.
spellingShingle Research Article
Troncoso-Palacios, Jaime
Elorza, Alvaro A.
Puas, German I.
Alfaro-Pardo, Edmundo
A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
title A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
title_full A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
title_fullStr A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
title_full_unstemmed A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
title_short A new species of Liolaemus related to L. nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of Central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
title_sort new species of liolaemus related to l. nigroviridis from the andean highlands of central chile (iguania, liolaemidae)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26877688
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.555.6011
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