Liolaemus avilai BREITMAN, PARRA, PÉREZ & SITES, 2011

Find more photos by Google images search:

Higher Taxa	Liolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Liolaemus avilae BREITMAN, PARRA, FULVIO-PÉREZ & SITES 2011 Liolaemus lineomaculatus — DONOSO-BARROS & CEI 1971 Liolaemus lineomaculatus — CEI 1975 Liolaemus lineomaculatus — CEI & SCOLARO 1982 Liolaemus lineomaculatus — SCOLARO 1992 Liolaemus avilai — ESPINOZA 2012 (pers. comm.) Liolaemus avilae — AVILA et al. 2013 Liolaemus avilae — BREITMAN et al. 2013
Distribution	Argentina (Santa Cruz) Type locality: Lago Buenos Aires plateau, 18.7 SW Puesto Lebrun, Lago Buenos Aires department, Santa Cruz province, Argentina (47°05’29.0” S, 71°01’12.9” W, 1154 m elevation.
Reproduction	viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: MLP S 2627 (Figure 7), an adult male, L.J. Avila, C.H.F. Pérez, M.F. Breitman and N. Feltrin collectors, 9th January 2008. Paratypes. LJAMM-CNP
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: BREITMAN et al. 2011.
Comment	Group: lineomaculatus group.
Etymology	The specific epithet of this species “avilae” refers to our colleague and the first author’s PhD advisor Dr. Luciano Javier Avila, to honor him after more than fifteen years of research and teaching on the Patagonian herpetofauna. Because Dr. Avila is male, the name has to be changed to “avilai” (R. Espinoza, pers. comm. 24. Apr 2012). However, others, such as Néstor J. Cazzaniga, disagree and insist that avilae is grammatically correct (Cristian H. F. Pérez, pers. comm., 14 Aug 2019).
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, M.F.; Parra, M.; Fulvio Pérez, C.H. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2011. Two new species of lizards from the Liolaemus lineomaculatus section (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from southern Patagonia. Zootaxa 3120: 1–28 - get paper here Breitman, María Florencia; Mariana Morando and Luciano Javier Avila 2013. Past and present taxonomy of the Liolaemus lineomaculatus section (Liolaemidae): is the morphological arrangement hypothesis valid? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (3): 612–668 - 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. 1975. Southern patagonian iguanid lizards of the Liolaemus kingi group. Herpetologica 31: 109–116 Cei,J.M. & Scolaro,J.A. 1982. A new species of the Patagonian genus Vilcunia, with remarks on its morphology, ecology, and distribution. Journal of Herpetology 16 (4): 354-363 - get paper here Donoso-Barros,R. & Cei,J.M. 1971. New lizards from the volcanic Patagonian plateau of Argentina. Journal of Herpetology 5 (3-4): 89-95 - get paper here Scolaro, J.A. 1992. Morphological differences between Vilcunia and L. magellanicus and L. lineomaculatus: Discriminant analysis. Acta Zoológica Lilloana 41: 287–293 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Liolaemus&species=avilai

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.

Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator