Title
An endemic new species of Andean lizard of the genus Liolaemus from southern Peru (Iguania: Liolaemidae) and its phylogenetic position
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Quiroz A.J.
Condori P.
De la Riva I.
Herrera-Juárez G.
Arapa L.P.
Abdala C.S.
Publisher(s)
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Abstract
Integrative evidence of several external morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA (12S, cyt-b) are used to place a new species of Andean lizard of the genus Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) in the Liolaemus montanus group and as sister group of the clade formed by L. signifer. The new species is characterized by a unique combination of morphometric characteristics, scalation, and color pattern. The L. montanus group now contains seventeen species in southern Peru, distributed along the eastern and western slopes of the Andes.
Start page
47
End page
63
Volume
14
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087807896
Source
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
ISSN of the container
1083446X
Sponsor(s)
We are grateful to several institutions for allowing the review of specimens from their museum collections: Evaristo López Tejeda (MUSA), Sonia Kretzschmar and Esteban Lavilla (FML), and the staff of Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú (MUBI). The comments of Claudia Koch, Mika Jormakka, and two anonymous reviewers improved our manuscript considerably, and we are grateful to Lucy Vargas for providing botanical information. JCC is grateful to Javier Bustamante for technical aids to cover obtaining molecular information and to Fernando Rojas, and to Kelly Preciado for field assistance. Sequencing expenses were funded by project CGL2011-30393 of the Spanish Government (PI: I. De la Riva). CSA thanks the Cerdeña family and the Hotel Princes from Arequipa and the Gutiérrez family in Lima for their friendship and support. Thanks to the Agencia de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Argentina (PICT 2015-1398). Collection permits for specimens held at the Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú (MUBI) were issued and recognized by SERFOR through Resolución de Dirección General N° 024-2017-SERFOR/DGGSPFFS, and Resolución de Dirección General N° 369-2019-MINAGRI-SERFORDGGSPFFS.
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