Liolaemus melaniceps PINCHEIRA-DONOSO & NÚÑEZ, 2005

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Higher Taxa	Liolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Liolaemus (Liolaemus) melaniceps PINCHEIRA-DONOSO & NÚÑEZ 2005: 398 Liolaemus melaniceps — LOBO et al. 2010
Distribution	Chile Type locality: “Isla Chungungo (29 ̊24’S; 71 ̊21’W)".
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: MNHNC 3602 (Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile, Santiago)
Diagnosis
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after the dark or black color of the head in this species, from Greek melano meaning black and Latin caput, -ceps = head.
References	Demangel, Diego 2016. Reptiles en Chile. Fauna Nativa Ediciones, Santiago, 619 pp - get paper here 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 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 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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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