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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). 
Etymology“Referida a los viajeros de la Expedición de Francisco Moreno, quienes fueron los primeros en explorar el Lago Buenos Aires.” 
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 - 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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