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Diplolaemus leopardinus (WERNER, 1898)

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Higher TaxaLeiosauridae (Leiosaurinae), Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Leopard Iguana 
SynonymLiosaurus leopardinus WERNER 1898: 249
Diplolaemus leopardinus — DONOSO -BARROS 1965: 223
Diplolaemus leopardinus — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 110
Diplolaemus leopardinus — CARVALHO et al. 2023 
DistributionArgentina (Patagonia, Neuquen)

Type locality: see comment  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: ZMB (fide Pedro Victoriano, pers. comm., 6 April 2015). 
Diagnosis 
CommentType locality: Santiago, Chile (in error fide DONOSO-BARROS 1965: 223) 
EtymologyNamed after Latin leopardinus, of a leopard. [“...die Färbung des Kopfes ist röthlich, die Rumpfseiten grau mit gelben Verticalstreifen, die aber wenig deutlich sind...“]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
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
  • Carvalho, André L. G.; Alejandro Laspiur, Julia Klaczko, Luis Rolando Rivas, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Marco Aurélio de Sena & Ricardo Céspedes 2023. Total evidence phylogenetic analysis of Leiosauridae (Squamata) with focus on the ‘para-anoles’ and description of a new Urostrophus species from the Bolivian Andes. Systematics and Biodiversity, 21:1, 2200306, - get paper here
  • Donoso-Barros,R. 1965. An. Segundo Cong. Latino-Amer. Zool., São Paulo 2: 223
  • Femenias, M. M., Avila, L. J., Sites, J. W. & Morando, M. 2019. The enigmatic Leiosaurae clade: Phylogeography, species delimitation, phylogeny and historical biogeography of its southernmost species. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 106725 (2019). doi: - get paper here
  • García, Noelia E.; Ruiz Monachesi, Mario Ricardo; Paz, Marcos M. 2015. Primer registro de Mesocestoides sp. (Ciclophyllidea: Cestoda) en Diplolaemus leopardinus (Werner, 1898). Cuad. herpetol. 29 (1): - get paper here
  • Werner, FRANZ 1898. Die Reptilien und Batrachier der Sammlung Plate. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Oekol. Geogr. Tiere (suppl. 4): 244-278 - get paper here
 
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