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Microlophus albemarlensis (BAUR, 1890)

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Higher TaxaTropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Galapagos Lava Lizard 
SynonymTropidurus albemarlensis BAUR 1890
Tropidurus grayii magnus HELLER 1903
Microlophus jacobi — BENAVIDES et al. 2009 
DistributionGalapagos: Isabela, Santa Cruz, Fernandina, Baltra, Rabida, Seymour, Daphne Major, Plaza Sur (Ecuador)

Type locality: Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island (= Isla Isabela), Galapagos.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: USNM 15003-13
Holotype: CAS-SUR 3974 [magnus] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: BOULENGER 1891 synonymized Tropidurus indefatigabilis BAUR 1890 with Leiocephalus Grayii BELL 1843. FROST 1992 followed that view, but Benavides et al. 2009 revalidated indefatigabilis. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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  • Benavides, Edgar; Rebecca Baum, Heidi M. Snell, Howard L. Snell, and Jack W. Sites, Jr. 2009. Island Biogeography of Galápagos Lava Lizards (Tropiduridae: Microlophus): Species Diversity and Colonization of the Archipelago. Evolution 63 (6): 1606-1626, doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00617.x - get paper here
  • Carpenter, Charles C. 1970. Miscellaneous notes on Galapagos lava lizards. Herpetologica 26 (3): 377-386 - get paper here
  • Fehr, Hartmut 2021. Die einzigartige Reptilienfauna der Galápagos-Inseln. Elaphe 2021 (6): 44-54
  • Frost, Darrel R. 1992. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the Tropidurus group of lizards (Iguania: Tropidurudae). American Museum Novitates (3033): 1-68 - get paper here
  • HervÍas-Parejo, Sandra; Ruben Heleno, Beatriz Rumeu, Beatriz Guzmán, Pablo Vargas, Jens M Olesen, Anna Traveset, Carlos Vera, Edgar Benavides, Manuel Nogales, 2019. Small size does not restrain frugivory and seed dispersal across the evolutionary radiation of Galápagos lava lizards. Current Zoology, Volume 65, Issue 4, August , Pages 353–361, - get paper here
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  • Jackson, M. H. 1985. Galapagos: a natural history guide. University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Canada. 283 pp.
  • Jordan, M.A., J.L. Hollis, P.A. Stone & H.L. Snell 2008. Habitat as a source of intrapopulational variation of ornament size in Galápagos lava lizards (Microlophus albemarlensis complex) Amphibia-Reptilia, 29(2): 278-283. - get paper here
  • JORDAN, M.A.; H. L. SNELL; H. M. SNELL and W. C. JORDAN 2005. Phenotypic divergence despite high levels of gene flow in Galápagos lava lizards (Microlophus albemarlensis). Molecular Ecology 14: 859–867 - get paper here
  • Lopez,T.J.; Hauselman,E.D.; Maxson,L.R. & Wright,J.W. 1992. Preliminary analysis of phylogenetic relationships among Galapagos Island lizards of the genus Tropidurus. Amphibia-Reptilia 13: 327-339 - get paper here
  • Macedonia, Joseph M.; David L. Clark, Morgan R. Fonley, Isabella Centurione, John W. Rowe & Carlos A. Valle 2019. Analysis of Bobbing Displays in Four Species of Galápagos Lava Lizards Using Conventional and Novel Quantitative Methods. Herpetologica 75 (4): 290-300 - get paper here
  • Nagy, Kenneth A.; Carlos Guerra-Correa, Vaughan H. Shoemaker 2021. Dining Intertidally: Diet, Energetics, and Osmotic Relations of Two Shoreline-Foraging Tropidurid Lizard Species. South American Journal of Herpetology 20 (1): 8-16 - get paper here
  • Sulloway, F.J. 2009. Tantalizing Tortoises and the Darwin-Galápagos Legend. Journal of the History of Biology (2009) 42:3–31 - get paper here
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  • ZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp. - get paper here
 
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