Title
Some color in the desert: description of a new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from southern Peru, and its conservation status
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Huamaní-Valderrama L.
Quiroz A.J.
Aguilar-Kirigin Á.
Huanca-Mamani W.
Valladares-Faúndez P.
Abdala C.S.
Publisher(s)
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Abstract
The desert of southern Peru and northern Chile is an area with a high degree of endemism in squamate reptiles. In this work, an endemic new species is described in the genus Liolaemus with a restricted geographical distribution on the western slopes of the La Caldera batholith in the Department of Arequipa, southern Peru, that inhabits the Desert province of southern Peru, between 1,800 and 2,756 m asl. The new species is characterized by a unique combination of morphological and molecular characters that distinguish it from all other Liolaemus species, and it is included in the L. reichei clade within the L. montanus group. Evidence presented shows that the category of threat corresponds to Endangered under the IUCN Red List criteria.
Start page
1
End page
30
Volume
14
Issue
3
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85101239945
Source
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
ISSN of the container
1083446X
Sponsor(s)
We are grateful to Evaristo López [Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional San Agustín, Arequipa, Perú (MUSA)], the staff of the Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú (MUBI, Cusco, Perú), Sonia Kretzschmar and Esteban Lavilla [Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina (FML), César Aguilar-Puntriano y Alejandro Mendoza (Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú (MUSM)], for allowing the review of specimens from their museum collections and for facilitating access to the collection under his care. Comments of Roberto Langstroth, Emma Steigerwald, Matt King, and one anonymous reviewer improved our manuscript considerably. Collection permits for specimens were issued by Ministerio de Agricultura, through Resolución Directoral N° 0399–2013–MINAGRI-DGFFS/DGEFFS and Resolución Directoral N°0112-2012-AG-DGFFSDGEFFS; and additionally, the Resolución de Dirección General N° 509-2018-MINAGRI-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS. We are grateful to Yovana Mamani Ccasa, from Cusco, for the support of the epithet in the original language of the Incas. LHV thanks Luis Arapa and Jeitson Zegarra for their help, in part, in obtaining morphological data; Mg. Sandro Condori and Dr. Sebastían Quinteros for their comments on the sequence alignment process; Dra. María Valderrama for access to the environments of the Genetics Laboratory of the National University of San Agustín; and finally, he especially thanks the researchers and others who help him during his stay on his trip to Argentina: Romina Sehman, AnaLu Bulacios, Marco Paz, the Abdala family in Mendoza, Lisseth Montes and family in Tacna, Valladares family in Chile, Carlos Valderrama and family in Lima. CSA thanks the Cerdeña family and the Hotel Princess from Arequipa. Thanks to CONICET and the Agencia y Técnica (PICT 2015- 1398, Argentina) and “Convenio de Desempeño Regional UTA-1795.
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