Liolaemus bitaeniatus LAURENT, 1984
        
    
    
        
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        | Higher Taxa | Liolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) | 
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        | Common Names | E: Striped Tree Iguana | 
        | Synonym | Liolaemus bitaeniatus LAURENT 1984: 275 Liolaemus bibronii — VANZOLINI in PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1986
 Liolaemus bitaeniatus — CEI 1993
 Liolaemus bitaeniatus — DIAZ-GOMEZ & LOBO 2006
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        | Distribution | Argentina (Tucuman, Salta, Jujuy, Catamarca, Salta) 
 Type locality: Argentina, Tucuman, La Angostura, Tafi del Valle.
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        | Reproduction | Oviparous | 
        | Types | Holotype: FML 999/1 (Fundación Miguel Lillo) | 
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        | Etymology | Named after “bi-” = two or dual and Latin “taenia” = band or stripe. | 
        | References | 
            Avila, L. J. and F. Lobo. 1999. New lizard records for La Rioja and Catamarca Provinces, northwestern Argentina. Herpetological Review 30 (2): 115-117  - get paper hereAVILA, LUCIANO JAVIER; LORENA ELIZABETH MARTINEZ & MARIANA MORANDO 2013. Checklist of lizards and amphisbaenians of Argentina: an update. Zootaxa 3616 (3): 201–238  - get paper hereDiaz Gómez, J.M. & Lobo, F. 2006. HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF A CLADE OF LIOLAEMUS (IGUANIA: LIOLAEMIDAE) BASED ON ANCESTRAL AREAS AND DISPERSAL-VICARIANCE ANALYSIS (DIVA). Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 46 (24): 261-274  - get paper hereLaurent R F 1984. Tres especies nuevas del genero Liolaemus (Reptilia, Iguanidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 37 (2): 273-294 Lobo, Fernando, Espinoza, Robert E. 2004. Two New Liolaemus from the Puna Region of Argentina and Chile: Further Resolution of Purported Reproductive Bimodality in Liolaemus alticolor (Iguania: Liolaemidae). Copeia 2004 (4): 850–867  - get paper hereQuinteros, 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 hereQUINTEROS, ANDRÉS SEBASTIÁN 2013. A morphology-based phylogeny of the Liolaemus alticolor–bibronii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae). Zootaxa 3670: 1-32  - get paper hereRamirez Pinilla, M.P. 1995. Reproductive and Fat Body Cycles of the Oviparous Lizard Liolaemus bitaeniatus (Sauria: Tropiduridae) Journal of Herpetology 29 (2): 256-260.  - get paper hereSCHULTE II, JAMES A.; J. ROBERT MACEY, ROBERT E. ESPINOZA AND ALLAN LARSON 2000. Phylogenetic relationships in the iguanid lizard genus Liolaemus: multiple origins of viviparous reproduction and evidence for recurring Andean vicariance and dispersal. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69: 75–102  - get paper here | 
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