Leiosaurus catamarcensis KOSLOWSKY, 1898
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Higher Taxa | Leiosauridae (Leiosaurinae), Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Synonym | Leiosaurus catamarcensis KOSLOWSKY 1898: 169 Aperopristis catamarcensis — MÜLLER 1922 Leiosaurus catamarcensis — GALLARDO 1961: 114 Leiosaurus catamarcensis — CEI 1993 Aperopristis catamarcensis — FROST et al. 2001 Leiosaurus catamarcensis — FROST et al. 2001 |
Distribution | NW Argentina (San Juan, Rioja, Mendoza, Catamarca)
Type locality: Provincia de Catamarca
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: MLP S (Mus. La Plata), unnumbered |
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- AVILA, LUCIANO JAVIER; LORENA ELIZABETH MARTINEZ & MARIANA MORANDO 2013. Checklist of lizards and amphisbaenians of Argentina: an update. Zootaxa 3616 (3): 201–238
- Cei, J.M. 2003. SPECIFIC SUPRAOCULAR SCUTELLATION PATTERNS AS SIGNIFICANT DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS: A TAXONOMIC INTER AND INTRAGENERIC "FINGER-PRINT" IN LACERTILIA. Facena 19: 129-135 - get paper here
- Frost, Darrel R.; Richard Etheridge; Daniel Janies and Tom A. Titus 2001. Total evidence, sequence alignment, evolution of polychrotid lizards, and a reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata, Iguania). American Museum Novitates 3343: 1-22 - get paper here
- Gallardo,J.M. 1961. Estudio zoogeografico del genero Leiosaurus (Reptilia, Sauria). Physis 22 (63): 113-118
- Koslowsky,J. 1898. Enumeración sistemática y distribución geográfica de los reptiles argentinos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 8: 161-200 - get paper here
- Laspiur, A.; Acosta, J.C. & Abdala, C.S. 2007. A new species of Leiosaurus (Iguania: Leiosauridae) from central-western Argentina. Zootaxa 1470: 47–57 - get paper here
- Laurent, R.F., & Teran, E.M. 1981. Lista de los anfibios y reptiles de la Provincia de Tucuman [Argentina]. Miscelaneo (Fund. Miguel Lillo, Tucuman) 71: 15 pp.
- Tulli, M.J.; F.B. Cruz, A. Herrel, B. Vanhooydonck, V. Abdala 2009. The interplay between claw morphology and microhabitat use in neotropical iguanian lizards. Zoology 112 (5): 379-392 - get paper here
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