Stenocercus imitator CADLE, 1991

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Higher Taxa	Tropiduridae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Stenocercus imitator CADLE 1991 Stenocercus imitator — TORRES-CARVAJAL 2004
Distribution	Peru (Cajamarca) Type locality: road above Monte Seco toward Chorro Blanco, approx. 1.5 km (airline) NE Monte Seco, 1450 m elevation, Río Zaña, Cajamarca, Peru.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 232634
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: TORRES-CARVAJAL 2007.
Comment	Belongs to the clades Scelotrema and Microphractoides (fide TORRES-CARVAJAL 2006).
References	Cadle J E. 1991. Systematics of lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Iguania Tropiduridae) from northern Peru. New species and comments on relationships and distribution patterns. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 143: 1-96. (erratum published in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 144 (1993): 345). - 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 Torres-Carvajal, O. 2004. The abdominal skeleton of Tropidurid lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae). Herpetologica 60 (1): 75-83 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal, Omar; James A. Schulte II and John E. Cadle 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of South American lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania): A new approach using a general mixture model for gene sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (1): 171-185 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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