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Liolaemus lemniscatus GRAVENHORST, 1838

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wreath Tree Iguana 
SynonymLiolaemus lemniscatus GRAVENHORST 1838: 731
Liolaemus hieroglyphicus GRAVENHORST 1838: 732
Proctotretus mosaicus — HOMBRON & JACQUINOT 1847: plate 2
Proctotretus femoratus — GIRARD 1855: 227
Ptychodeira femorata — GIRARD 1858: 344
Ptychodeira mosaica — GIRARD 1858: 349
Liolaemus femoratus — STEINDACHNER 1867: 37
Liolaemus lemniscatus — BOULENGER 1885: 143
Liolaemus elegans
Liolaemus lemniscatus — SCHULTE et al. 2000
Liolaemus (Liolaemus) lemniscatus — PINCHEIRA-DONOSO & NÚÑEZ 2005: 220 
DistributionChile (Coquimbo to Cautin), Argentina (Patagonia)

Type locality: "Valparaiso".

hieroglyphicus: Type locality: “Cauquenes” (in the current Maule region, Chile).  
ReproductionOviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHW = UWZM = MNHUW Re 0027, female (Natural History Museum of the University of Wroclaw), formerly Zoologisches Museum Breslau
Syntype: USNM 5525 [Proctotretus femoratus]
Holotype: MNHUW 1322, probably female [hieroglyphicus] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy after Peters et al. 1970 and BOULENGER 1885. According to Borczyk & Skawiński 2019, Liolaemus hieroglyphicus is not synonymous with L. signifer, L. chiliensis or L. lemniscatus. It is similar to L. cyanogaster and L. schroederi (particularly the latter), but at present cannot be unambiguously synonymised with any of these. Hence, these authors regard it as a species inquirenda.

Type locality: "Valparaiso".

Original description: “The dorsal scales form 25 rows and the belly scales 33 rows. Forehead with six pairs of con- secutive enlarged scales. Drawing: Above warts light brown, with a black spot above the upper arm and on the sides with two long white lines and two rows of black and brown spots” (Gravenhorst 1838: 73; cited after Borczyk 2013). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin lemniscatus, ribboned. (Gravenhorst, 1838, Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024) 
References
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