TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of Liolaemus related to L. Nigroviridis from the Andean highlands of central Chile (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
AU - Troncoso-Palacios, Jaime
AU - Elorza, Alvaro A.
AU - Puas, German I.
AU - Alfaro-Pardo, Edmundo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Jaime Troncoso-Palacios et al.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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 L. nigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with L. monticola and L. bellii, both of which do not belong to the nigroviridis group. The taxonomic issues of this group that remain uncertain are also discussed.
AB - 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 L. nigroviridis but noticeably differed in size, scalation, and markedly in the color pattern, without sexual dichromatism. This new species has probably been confused with L. monticola and L. bellii, both of which do not belong to the nigroviridis group. The taxonomic issues of this group that remain uncertain are also discussed.
KW - Cyt-b
KW - L. uniformis sp n
KW - Liolaemus nigroviridis
KW - Lizard
KW - MtDNA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955472449&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.555.6011
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.555.6011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84955472449
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2016
SP - 91
EP - 114
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 555
ER -