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Stenocercus pectinatus (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1835)

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Higher TaxaTropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymProctotretus pectinatus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1835
Proctotretus pectinatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 292
Liolaemus (Proctotretus) pectinatus — FITZINGER 1843
Proctotretus Pectinatus — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 269
Ptygoderus pectinatus — GIRARD 1857
Proctotretus splendidus GIRARD 1857
Saccodeira pectinata — BOULENGER 1885: 159
Proctotretus pectinatus — GALLARDO 1966: 22
Proctotretus pectinatus — GENISE 1985
Saccodeira pectinata — KOSLOWSKY 1898
Stenocercus pectinatus — FROST 1992
Stenocercus pectinatus — CEI 1993: 292
Stenocercus pectinatus — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004
Stenocercus pectinatus — SCROCCHI et al. 2010: 203 
DistributionArgentina (Rio Negro, La Pampa, Buenos Aires, Cordoba [HR 27: 211], San Luis, Santa Fe)

Type locality: “Chili”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MNHN-RA 6868 and MNHN-RA 6868A
Syntypes: ANSP 8546, USNM 5695, 565026 [Proctotretus splendidus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007.
 
CommentSynonymy after CEI 1993.

Distribution: Formerly published records for Mendoza, Santa Cruz, and Chubut provinces are very doubtful and not confirmed by vouchers [Avila 1999, HR 30: 111]. No voucher specimens are available from Brazil either. Not in Uruguay (Torres-Carvajal, pers. comm., 19 Feb 2013).

Map: see TEIXEIRA et al. 2015: 417. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin pectinatus, arranged in the form of a comb. [“...Une crête pe< linée tout le long du côté du corps..."]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
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
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Cardinale, Lisandro;Vignolo, Pablo 1996. Geographic Distribution. Stenocercus pectinatus. Herpetological Review 27 (4): 211 - get paper here
  • Carranza, S.; E. N. Arnold & F. Amat 2004. DNA phylogeny of Lacerta (Iberolacerta) and other lacertine lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae): did competition cause long-term mountain restriction? Systematics and Biodiversity 2 (1): 57-77 - get paper here
  • Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949
  • Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1837. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 4. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 570 pp. - get paper here
  • Duméril, A. M.C., G. BIBRON & A. DUMÉRIL 1854. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 9. Paris, XX + 440 S. - get paper here
  • Duméril, A.M.C., and G. Bibron. 1835. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles, Vol. 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, iv + 680 p. - get paper here
  • Gallardo, Jose M. 1966. Liolaemus lentus nov. Sp. (Iguanidae) de la Pampa y Algunas observaciones sobre los saurios de picha provincia Argentina y del oeste de Buenos Aires. Neotropica 12 (37): 15-29
  • Genise, J. F. 1985. La presencia de Proctotretus pectinatus (Sauria, Iguanidae) en el norte de Cordoba. Bol. Asoc. Herp. Argentina 2 (1-3): 18 - get paper here
  • Koslowsky,J. 1898. Enumeración sistemática y distribución geográfica de los reptiles argentinos. Rev. Mus. La Plata 8: 161-200 - get paper here
  • Perez, C.H.F.; N. Frutos; M. Kozykariski; M. Morando; D.R. Perez; L.J. Avila. 2011. Lizards of Rio Negro Province, northern Patagonia, Argentina. Check List 7 (3): 202-219 - get paper here
  • Scrocchi, Gustavo J.; Cristian S. Abdala,Javier Nori, Hussam Zaher 2010. Reptiles de la provincia de Río Negro, Argentina. Fondo Ed. Rionegrino, 249 pp.
  • Teixeira, Mauro; Ivan Prates, Carolina Nisa, Nathalia Suzan Camarão Silva-Martins, Christine Strüssmann, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues 2015. Molecular data reveal spatial and temporal patterns of diversification and a cryptic new species of lowland Stenocercus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94: 410-423 (2016), doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.010 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, O. 2004. The abdominal skeleton of Tropidurid lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Herpetologica 60 (1): 75-83 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, O. 2005. A new species of Stenocercus (Squamata, Iguania) from central-western Brazil with a key to Brazilian Stenocercus. Phyllomedusa 4 (2): 123-132 - get paper here
 
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