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Liolaemus montanezi CABRERA & MONGUILLOT, 2006

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLiolaemus montanezi CABRERA & MONGUILLOT 2006
Liolaemus cinereus MONGUILLOT, CABRERA, ACOSTA & VILLAVICENCIO 2006
Liolaemus montanezi — LASPIUR et al. 2021
 
DistributionW Argentina (San Juan)

Type locality: Parque Nacional San Guillermo, San Juan
province in western Argentina

cinereus: W Argentina (San Guillermo National Park); Type locality: at the flood plain of the northern margin of the Blanco River, Quebrada Alcaparrosa (29° 30’ 47.5’’ S, 69° 10’ 27.3’’ W), 2270 m elevation, southern section of the San Guillermo National Park, Iglesia Department, San Juan province, Argentina.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MACN 38746
Holotype: MLP R 5139, an adult male collected February 11, 2005, by J. C. Acosta and J. H. Villavicencio [cinereus] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (12796 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy: Laspiur et al. 2024 synonymized L. cinereus with L. montanezi.

Member of the darwinii group of Liolaemus.

Habitat: terrestrial, dwelling on rocky gravel and sandy soil in a Monte landscape with sparse vegetation.

Abundance: both cinereus and montanezi were only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). L. montanezi is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after Mr. Alvaro Montañez, park guard Head of the Parque Nacional San Guillermo, for his encouragement and support to all research activities in that protected area.

L. cinereus was named after the Latin adjective cinereus, meaning “ash-grey”, in reference to the overall background color characteristic in this species. 
References
  • ABDALA, CRISTIAN SIMÓN; ANDRÉS SEBASTIÁN QUINTEROS,, FEDERICO ARIAS, SABRINA PORTELLI & ANTONIO PALAVECINO 2011. A new species of the Liolaemus darwinii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from Salta Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 2968: 26–38 - get paper here
  • AVILA, LUCIANO JAVIER; LORENA ELIZABETH MARTINEZ & MARIANA MORANDO 2013. Checklist of lizards and amphisbaenians of Argentina: an update. Zootaxa 3616 (3): 201–238 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cabrera, Mario R.; Monguillot, Julio C. 2006. A new Andean species of Liolaemus of the darwinii Complex (Reptilia: Iguanidae). Zootaxa 1106: 35-43 - get paper here
  • Laspiur, A., Pizarro, J. E., Carvalho, A. L., & Abdala, C. S. 2024. Multiple Sources of Evidence Reveal That Liolaemus cinereus Monguillot et al., 2006 is a Synonym of L. montanezi Cabrera and Monguillot, 2006. South American Journal of Herpetology, 30(1), 1-19
  • Laspiur, A., Santos, J. C., Medina, S. M., Pizarro, J. E., Sanabria, E. A., Sinervo, B., & Ibargüengoytía, N. R. 2021. Vulnerability to climate change of a microendemic lizard species from the central Andes. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-14 - get paper here
  • Laspiur, Alejandro; Jesús E. Pizarro, André L.G. Carvalho & Cristian S. Abdala 2024. Multiple Sources of Evidence Reveal That Liolaemus cinereus Monguillot et al., 2006 is a Synonym of L. montanezi Cabrera and Monguillot, 2006 South American Journal of Herpetology 30 (1): 1-19 - get paper here
  • Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • MONGUILLOT, J.C.; M.R. CABRERA, J.C. ACOSTA & J. VILLAVICENCIO 2006. A new species of Liolaemus (Reptilia: Iguanidae) from San Guillermo National Park, western Argentina. Zootaxa 1361: 33-43 - get paper here
 
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