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Phymaturus yachanana AVILA, PÉREZ, MINOLI & MORANDO, 2014

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Higher TaxaLiolaemidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPhymaturus yachanana AVILA, PÉREZ, MINOLI & MORANDO 2014 
DistributionArgentina (Río Negro)

Type locality: rocky hills 1.74 km South of the Sierra Grande town, east of National Road 3 (41°37’S, 65°20’W, 270 m elevation, datum = WGS 84), San Antonio department, Río Negro province, Argentina  
Reproductionviviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MLP S 2636, adult male collected on July 6, 2008 by C.H.F. Pérez and M. León collectors. Paratypes: LJAMM-CNP 8203, 8205 (adult males), 8204 (adult female) collected on rocky cliffs of Sierra Grande hills, behind Sierra Grande town (41°36’S, 65°22’W, 429 m, datum = WGS 84), San Antonio department, Río Negro province, Argentina, on October 15, 2007 by C.H.F. Pérez and M. León collectors. LJAMM-CNP 14366-14367 (adult males) 14368 (adult female) collected on rocky cliffs on the west slope of Sierra Grande hills, behind Sierra Grande ghost town (41°36’S, 65°23’S, 387 m, datum = WGS 84), San Antonio department, Río Negro province, Argentina, on March 4, 2011 by C.H.F. Pérez, D. Udrizar & M. Carrera collectors. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Phymaturus yachanana sp. nov. is a robust and medium sized member of the clade referred as the patagonicus group by Etheridge (1995), because it has flat imbricate superciliaries, non-rugose dorsal scales on tail, and subocular scale usually not fragmented. This new species is allopatric and differs from all other members of the clade in its unique dorsal pattern of mid-dorsal small white dots occupying only 1-8 scales and larger lateral dots or bands (3–27 scales) on a brown background.


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CommentGroup: calcogaster species group

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyThe specific name, “yachanana”, means "with abundant iron ore" in the language of the northern Tehuelches, a native group that inhabited the region of the type locality (yacha =means iron ore, nana= abundant). This name was used for a locality near Sierra Grande hills by the Swiss naturalist and explorer Jorge Claraz during his travels to the region in the summer of 1865–1866 (Casamiquela 1998, see p. 162). Sierra Grande hills harbor the only one iron mine of Argentina. 
References
  • Avila, Luciano Javier; Cristian Hernan Fulvio Perez, IGNACIO MINOLI & Mariana Morando 2014. A new lizard of the Phymaturus genus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from Sierra Grande, northeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Zootaxa 3793 (1): 099–118 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Scolaro, José Alejandro; Valeria Corbalán, Osvaldo Fabián Tappari and Lorena Obregón Streitenberger 2016. LIZARDS AT THE END OF THE WORLD: A NEW MELANIC SPECIES OF PHYMATURUS OF THE PATAGONICUS CLADE FROM ROCKY OUTCROPS IN THE NORTHWESTERN STEPPE OF CHUBUT PROVINCE, PATAGONIA ARGENTINA (REPTILIA: IGUANIA: LIOLAEMIDAE). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile, 65: 137-152
  • Streitenberger, Lorena Obregón; María Rosa Klagges, Juan Francisco Escobar y José Alejandro Scolaro, 2018. ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO DE LAS ESPECIES DE LAGARTOS DE LAS ROCAS DEL NORESTE DEL CHUBUT. Naturalia Patagónica 11: 15-31
  • 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
 
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