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Phymaturus patagonicus KOSLOWSKY, 1898

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Patagonia Mountain Lizard 
SynonymPhymaturus patagonicus KOSLOWSKY 1898: 184
Phymaturus palluma patagonicus — BURT & BURT 1931: 281
Phymaturus palluma patagonicus — PETERS et al. 1970: 227
Phymaturus patagonicus — CEI 1971
Centrura patagonica — CEI 1986
Phymaturus patagonicus — LOBO & QUINTEROS 2005
Phymaturus patagonicus — AVILA et al. 2020 
DistributionArgentina (Patagonian cordillera south of Río Negro; Chubut, [HR 30: 174] [HR 32: 64])

Type locality: Territorio del Chubut (Patagonia), Argentina [43° 27’ S, 66° 07’ W]  
Reproductionovoviviparous; Facultative parthenogenetic species [Chiszar et al, HR 30: 98]. 
TypesLectotype: MLP S = Museo La Plata S-778 (designated by LOBO & QUINTEROS 2005) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Lobo 2005. 
CommentGroup: The Phymaturus patagonicus clade contains the payuniae group, the spurcus group, the somuncurensis group, the calcogaster group, and the indistinctus group (Marin et al. 2022).

This species belongs to the patagonicus group (fide LOBO et al. 2010).

Phymaturus spurcus BARBOUR 1921 has been removed from the synonymy of P. patagonicus by LOBO & QUINTEROS 2005.

Diet: herbivorous 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality, Patagonia, the geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America + Greek -icos (ηκος), suffix indicating of or from [a place]. [“...Patria: territorio del Chubut (Patagonia)...”]. 
References
  • 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
  • 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
  • Barbour, Thomas 1921. On a small collection of reptiles from Argentina. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 34: 139-142 - get paper here
  • Burt,C.E. & Burt,M.D. 1931. South American lizards in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 61 (7): 227-395 - get paper here
  • Cei, J.M. 1986. Reptiles del centro, centro-oeste y sur de la Argentina; herpetofauna de las zonas aridas y semiaridas. Mus. Regionale di Sci. Natur., Torino, Monogr. 4: 527 pp.
  • Cei, J.M. 2003. SPECIFIC SUPRAOCULAR SCUTELLATION PATTERNS AS SIGNIFICANT DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS: A TAXONOMIC INTER- AND INTRAGENERIC "FINGER-PRINT" IN LACERTILIA. Facena 19: 129-135 - get paper here
  • Cei,J.M. 1971. Consideraciones sobre las relaciones taxonomicas de Phymaturus patagonicus y Phymaturus palluma. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 28: 37-46
  • Cei,J.M. & CASTRO,L.P. 1973. Taxonomic and serological researches on the Phymaturus patagonicus complex. Journal of Herpetology 7 (3): 237-247 - get paper here
  • Chiszar, D., T. Gingery, B. Gingery, and H. M. Smith. 1999. Phymaturus patagonicus (Argentine chuckwalla). Facultative parthenogenesis. Herpetological Review 30 (2): 98 - get paper here
  • Ibargüengoytía, N.R. 2004. Prolonged Cycles as a Common Reproductive Pattern in Viviparous Lizards from Patagonia, Argentina: Reproductive Cycle of Phymaturus patagonicus Journal of Herpetology 38 (1): 73-79. - get paper here
  • Koslowsky,J. 1898. Enumeración sistemática y distribución geográfica de los reptiles argentinos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 8: 161-200 - get paper here
  • Lobo, F. and S. Quinteros 2005. Taxonomic studies of the genus Phymaturus (Iguania: Liolaemidae): Redescription of Phymaturus patagonicus Koslowsky 1898, and revalidation and redescription of Phymaturus spurcus Barbour 1921. Journal of Herpetology 39 (4): 533-540 - get paper here
  • Lobo, F. and S. Quinteros 2005. A MORPHOLOGY-BASED PHYLOGENY OF PHYMATURUS (IGUANIA: LIOLAEMIDAE) WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF FOUR NEW SPECIES FROM ARGENTINA. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 45(13):143-177 - 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
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  • Piantoni, Carla; Ibargüengoytía, Nora R.; Cussac, Victor E. 2006. Age and growth of the Patagonian lizard Phymaturus patagonicus. Amphibia-Reptilia 27 (3): 385-392 - get paper here
  • SCOLARO, J. A., CORBALÁN, V., STREITENBERGER, L. O., & TAPPARI, O. F. 2021. Description of Phymaturus katenke, a new species of lizard (Iguania: Liolaemidae) discovered through DNA barcoding. NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 17, 1 - get paper here
  • SCOLARO, J. ALEJANDRO; MANUEL JARA, DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO 2013. The sexual signals of speciation? A new sexually dimorphic Phymaturus species of the patagonicus clade from Patagonia Argentina. Zootaxa 3722 (3): 317–332 - get paper here
  • SCOLARO, J.A. & NORA RUTH IBARGÜENGOYTÍA 2007. A new species of Phymaturus from rocky outcrops in the central steppe of Rio Negro province, Patagonia Argentina (Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemidae). Zootaxa 1524: 47–55 - get paper here
  • Scolaro, J.A. & Pincheira-Donoso, D. 2010. Lizards at the end of the world: Two new species of Phymaturus of the patagonicus clade (Squamata, Liolaemidae) revealed in southern Patagonia of Argentina. Zootaxa 2393: 17–32 - get paper here
  • Scolaro, José Alejandro; Valeria Corbalán, Osvaldo Fabián Tappari and Lorena Obregón Streitenberger 2016. LIZARDS AT THE END OF THE WORLD: A NEW MELANIC SPECIES OF PHYMATURUS OF THE PATAGONICUS CLADE FROM ROCKY OUTCROPS IN THE NORTHWESTERN STEPPE OF CHUBUT PROVINCE, PATAGONIA ARGENTINA (REPTILIA: IGUANIA: LIOLAEMIDAE). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile, 65: 137-152
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