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Liolaemus uspallatensis MACOLA & CASTRO, 1982

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Macola's Tree Iguana 
SynonymLiolaemus uspallatensis MACOLA & CASTRO 1982
Liolaemus (Eulaemus) uspallatensis — SCHULTE et al. 2000
Liolaemus uspallatensis — CAMARGO et al. 2012
Liolaemus (Eulaemus) uspallatensis — MORANDO et al. 2020 
DistributionArgentina (San Juan)

Type locality: Argentina, Mendoza, Uspallata  
ReproductionOviparous 
TypesHolotype: IBAUNC 1407/1 (Inst. Biol. Anim. Univ. de Cuyo) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: ETHERIDGE 1993: 180. 
CommentMember of the darwinii group of Liolaemus. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality, the town of Uspallata, or the Sierra of the same name.
 
References
  • Abdala, C.S. 2005. Una nueva especie del género Liolaemus perteneciente al complejo darwinii (Iguania:Liolaemidae) de la provincia de Catamarca, Argentina. Revista Española de Herpetologia 19:5-17 - get paper here
  • Abdala, C.S. 2007. Phylogeny of the boulengeri group (Iguania: Liolaemidae, Liolaemus) based on morphological and molecular characters. Zootaxa 1538: 1-84 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Aiassa, D.; N. Gorla, L. Ávila, R. Martori 2002. Karyotype of Liolaemus uspallatensis Macola and Castro, 1982 (Reptilia: Squamata: Tropiduridae): The smallest chromosome number of the genus and its comparison with other congeneric species. Amphibia-Reptilia 23 (3): 353-358 - 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
  • Buff, Ricardo, Pablo Gomez, Jose Marinero and Jose Hector Villavicencio 2001. Geographic distribution. Liolaemus uspallatensis. Herpetological Review 32 (3):193. - get paper here
  • Camargo, Arley; Luciano J. Avila, Mariana Morando, and Jack W. Sites, Jr 2012. Accuracy and Precision of Species Trees: Effects of Locus, Individual, and Base Pair Sampling on Inference of Species Trees in Lizards of the Liolaemus darwinii Group (Squamata, Liolaemidae). Systematic Biology 61: 272-288 - get paper here
  • Macola & CASTRO 1982. Una nueva especie del género Liolaemus del área subandina—Uspallata, Mendoza, Argentina. Liolaemus uspallatensis n. sp. (Iguanidae). Publ. Ocas. Inst. Biol. Anim. Univ. Cuyo, Ser. Cien. 15: 1
  • Morando, M.; Avila, L.J.; Baker, J. & Sites, J.W. 2004. PHYLOGENY AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE LIOLAEMUS DARWINII COMPLEX (SQUAMATA: LIOLAEMIDAE): EVIDENCE FOR INTROGRESSION AND INCOMPLETE LINEAGE SORTING. Evolution 58 (4): 842–861 - get paper here
  • SCHULTE II, JAMES A.; J. ROBERT MACEY, ROBERT E. ESPINOZA AND ALLAN LARSON 2000. Phylogenetic relationships in the iguanid lizard genus Liolaemus: multiple origins of viviparous reproduction and evidence for recurring Andean vicariance and dispersal. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69: 75–102 - get paper here
  • Scolaro J A. CEI J M. 1991. The poorly known Andean lizard Liolaemus uspallatensis Macola & Castro 1982, and its introgeneric relationships: a taxonumerical approach (Reptilia, Iguanidae). Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino 9 (1): 91-104.
 
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