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Phymaturus ceii SCOLARO & IBARGÜENGOYTÍA, 2007

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPhymaturus ceii SCOLARO & IBARGÜENGOYTÍA 2007
Phymaturus ceii — SCROCCHI et al. 2010: 173 
DistributionArgentina (Rio Negro)

Type locality: open rocky outcrops near Chasicó (40° 23' 02" S; 69° 00' 33" W; 1150 m elevation), south of El Cuy Plateau, Rio Negro Province, Argentina.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MLP R 5289, adult male, collected by J.A. Scolaro and O.F. Tappari, 24 March 2006. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Phymaturus ceii shows a noticeable sexual dichromatism. Males show a dorsal pattern of dark brown brick-like background, sometimes with light green shades intensely mottled with little white-grey spots. Females show a dorsal pattern of light brown background mottled with little grey spots and three strips, one vertebral and one on each side. These strips are conformed by dark brown scales of an intense variegated with numerous light brown spots separated by two strips of light brown scales. The coloration is dark brown, flecked with ocellus of irregular spots of a creamy colour, in different proportions on the limbs and an attenuated prominence of spiny scales on its caudal verticilles. It presents the Meckel’s groove fused, undivided subocular scale, thin and imbricate superciliaries scales and smooth dorsal scales on the tail. It shows two rows of lorilabials scales between the subocular and the supralabials. 
CommentThis species belongs to the patagonicus group (fide LOBO et al. 2010). 
EtymologyThe species is dedicated to honour José Miguel Cei (1918-2007), Argentinian herpetologist, who reviewed the manuscript of SCOLARO & IBARGÜENGOYTÍA but died before its publication. 
References
  • AVILA, LUCIANO JAVIER; CRISTIAN HERNAN FULVIO PEREZ, DANIEL ROBERTO PEREZ & MARIANA MORANDO 2011. Two new mountain lizard species of the Phymaturus genus (Squamata: Iguania) from northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa 2924: 1–21 - get paper here
  • Avila, Luciano Javier; Cristian Hernan Fulvio Perez, IGNACIO MINOLI & Mariana Morando 2014. A new lizard of the Phymaturus genus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from Sierra Grande, northeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa 3793 (1): 099–118 - 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
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cei, J.M. & Videla, F. 2003. A new Phymaturus species from volcanic cordilleran mountains of the south-western Mendoza province, Argentina (Liolaemidae, Iguania, Lacertilia, Reptilia). Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino 20 (2): 291-314
  • Corbalán, Valeria; Guillermo Deband , José Alejandro Scolaro , and Agustina Ojeda 2016. DNA Barcoding of Phymaturus Lizards Reveals Conflicts in Species Delimitation within the Patagonicus Clade. Journal of Herpetology 50 (4): 654-666 - get paper here
  • Lobo, Fernando; Cristian Abdala and Soledad Valdecantos 2010. Taxonomic Studies of the Genus Phymaturus (Iguania: Liolaemidae): Description of Four New Species. South American J. Herp. 5 (2):102-126 - get paper here
  • LOBO, FERNANDO; CRISTIAN ABDALA & SOLEDAD VALDECANTOS 2012. Morphological diversity and phylogenetic relationships within a South-American clade of iguanian lizards (Liolaemidae: Phymaturus). Zootaxa 3315: 1–41 - get paper here
  • Lobo, Fernando; Diego A. Barrasso, Marcos Paz and Néstor G. Basso 2018. Phylogenetic relationships within a patagonian clade of reptiles (Liolaemidae: Phymaturus) based on DNA sequences and morphology. J Zool Syst, DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12221 - get paper here
  • Lobo, Fernando; Santiago Javier Nenda 2015. Discovery of two new species of Phymaturus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from Patagonia, Argentina, and occurrence of melanism in the patagonicus group. Cuad. herpetol. 29 (1): 5-25
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  • Scolaro, J.A. & Ibargüengoyía, N.R. 2008. A new fragment for the understanding of the puzzling evolutive process of the Phymaturus genus: a new species of the patagonicus group from Patagonia, Argentina (Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemidae). Zootaxa 1939: 38–50 - get paper here
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