| Higher Taxa | Liolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Curicen Tree Iguana |
| Synonym | Liolaemus platei curicensis MÜLLER & HELLMICH 1938: 231
Liolaemus platei curicensis — DONOSO-BARROS 1966: 237
Liolaemus platei curicensis — PETERS et al. 1970: 193
Liolaemus curicensis — ORTIZ 1981
Liolaemus hernani SALLABERRY, NÚÑEZ & YÁÑEZ 1982
Liolaemus hernani — NÚÑEZ 1996
Liolaemus (Liolaemus) curicensis — PINCHEIRA-DONOSO & NÚÑEZ 2005: 211
Liolaemus curicencis — AVILA et al. 2020 (in error) |
| Distribution | Chile (Cordillera de Curico)
Type locality: “Los Queñes, Kord. von Curicó, 1500 m” (original description), “1400-1500 m” elevation (jar label) [Chile]
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| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZSM 58/1933, male, collected by W. Schröder, 20.01.1933. |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Synonymy: Liolaemus hernani was synonymized with Liolaemus curicensis by PINCHEIRA-DONOSO & NÚÑEZ 2005, a decision that is supported by LOBO et al. 2010.
Etymology: L. hernani was named after “the father of Herman Núñez, one of the authors of the paper, who passed away the same day I collected the type specimen; the reason for this decision was that Herman Núñez, a very good friend of mine and colleague herpetologist was supposed to come to the field trip, and the last day before departing, his father was not feeling well and I had to convince him to stay behind, otherwise, he would have regretted it for the rest of his life; Mr. Hernan Núñez, his father, was born in San Antonio on August 8, 1914” (Sallaberry, pers. comm. cited in Pauwels & Wahlgren 2012). |
| Etymology | named after the type locality. L. hernani was named after “the father of Herman Núñez, one of the authors of the paper, who passed away the same day I collected the type specimen; the reason for this decision was that Herman Núñez, a very good friend of mine and colleague herpetologist was supposed to come to the field trip, and the last day before departing, his father was not feeling well and I had to convince him to stay behind, otherwise, he would have regretted it for the rest of his life; Mr. Hernan Núñez, his father, was born in San Antonio on August 8, 1914” (Sallaberry, pers. comm. cited in Pauwels & Wahlgren 2012). |
| References |
- Acosta, Juan Carlos; Rodrigo Gómez Alés, Graciela Blanco, Paula C. Escudero, and Luciano J. Avila 2020. General Ecology of Patagonian Lizards. In: Morando & Avila (eds.), Lizards of Patagonia. Springer Nature, pp. 283-334 - get paper here
- Avila, Luciano J.; Andrea González Marín, Jaime Troncoso-Palacios, Kevin Imanol Sánchez, Cristian Hernán Fulvio Pérez, and Mariana Morando 2020. Naming the Diversity: Taxonomy of Current Species of Patagonian Lizards. In: Morando & Avila (eds.), Lizards of Patagonia. Springer Nature, pp. 123-188 - get paper here
- Castro-Pastene, Carlos; Héctor Carrasco & Jaime Troncoso-Palacios. 2015. Lagartijas y serpientes del Parque Nacional Radal Siete Tazas. Boletín Chileno de Herpetología 2: 12-16 - get paper here
- Demangel, Diego 2016. Guía de Campo - Reptiles del centro sure de Chile. Corporación Chilena de la Madera, Concepción, Chile 187 pp. - get paper here
- Demangel, Diego 2016. Reptiles en Chile. Fauna Nativa Ediciones, Santiago, 619 pp - get paper here
- Donoso-Barros, R. 1966. Reptiles de Chile. Santiago: Univ. Chile, 458 + cxlvi pp.
- Lobo, F.; Espinoza, R.E. and S. Quinteros 2010. A critical review and systematic discussion of recent classification proposals for liolaemid lizards. Zootaxa 2549: 1–30 - get paper here
- MARTINEZ, LORENA ELIZABETH; LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA, CRISTIAN HERNAN FULVIO PEREZ, DANIEL ROBERTO PEREZ, JACK W. SITES, JR. & MARIANA MORANDO 2011. A new species of Liolaemus (Squamata, Iguania, Liolaemini) endemic to the Auca Mahuida volcano, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa 3010: 31–46 - get paper here
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- Müller, L. 1938. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Herpetofauna Chiles. XI. Über zwei neue Liolaemus-formen aus der chilenischen Kordillere (Sammlung Schröder). Zool. Anz. 122: 225-237
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- Pauwels, Olivier S. G. and Richard Wahlgren 2012. Book review: Beolens Bo, Watkins Michael, and Grayson Michael (2011), The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Russ. J. Herpetol. 19 (4): 352 – 355 - get paper here
- PINCHEIRA-DONOSO, Daniel & HERMAN NÚÑEZ 2005. The Chilean species of the genus Liolaemus Wiegmann, 1834 (Iguania, Tropiduridae, Liolaeminae). Taxonomy, systematics and evolution [in Spanish] Mus Nac Hist Nat Chile Publ Ocas 59: 1-486 - get paper here
- Quinteros, Andrés Sebastián 2012. Taxonomy of the Liolaemus alticolor–bibronii Group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species. Herpetologica 68 (1): 100-120 - get paper here
- Sallaberry-M; Nunez-H; Yanez-J 1984. Liolaemus hernani n. sp. de Iguanidae de la zona central de Chile. MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL BOLETIN (SANTIAGO) No. 39 1982[1984]: 93-99
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