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Liolaemus exploratorum CEI & WILLIAMS, 1984

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLiolaemus exploratorum CEI & WILLIAMS 1984
Liolaemus exploratorum — QUINTEROS 2012 
DistributionArgentina (Santa Cruz)

Type locality: Argentina, Santa Cruz, Lago Buenos Aires.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MLP S (Mus. La Plata = MLP) No. 571. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Especie de tamaño mediano, robusta, con extremidades posteriores cortas, reconocible de los otros Liolaemus del grupo bibroni por su característica le- pidosis y coloración.” [from CEI 1984]. 
CommentDistribution: apparently known form Argentina only by museum material, but never found in the wild (Avila et al. 2013: 228).

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after the travelers of the Francisco Moreno Expedition, who were the first to explore Lake Buenos Aires, after Latin explorator = searcher, examiner. 
References
  • 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
  • Breitman, María Florencia; Minoli, Ignacio; Avila, Luciano Javier; Medina, Cintia Debora; Sites, Jr., Jack Walter; Morando, Mariana 2014. Lagartijas de la provincia de Santa Cruz (Argentina): distribución geográfica, diversidad genética y estado de conservación . Cuad. herpetol. 28 (2): 83-110 - get paper here
  • Cei J M; Williams J D 1984. Las colecciones herpetologicas de la expedicion patagonica del Perito Moreno (Marzo-Abril de 1896) y las formas argentinas de Liolaemus del grupo pictus. REVISTA DEL MUSEO DE LA PLATA SECCION ZOOLOGIA 13 (139): 183-194
  • 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 24 (2): 262-273 - 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
  • QUINTEROS, ANDRÉS SEBASTIÁN 2013. A morphology-based phylogeny of the Liolaemus alticolor–bibronii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae). Zootaxa 3670: 1-32 - get paper here
  • Williams, Jorge D.; Camila Kass, and Luciano J. Avila 2020. History of Discovery of the Patagonian Lizards. In: Morando & Avila (eds.), Lizards of Patagonia. Springer Nature, pp. 1-24 - get paper here
 
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