Liolaemus dorbignyi, Koslowski, 1898

Abdala, Cristian Simón, Quinteros, Andrés Sebastián, Semhan, Romina Valeria, Bulacios Arroyo, Ana Lucia, Schulte, James, Paz, Marcos Maximiliano, Ruiz-Monachesi, Mario Ricardo, Laspiur, Alejandro, Aguilar-Kirigin, Alvaro Juan, Gutiérrez Poblete, Roberto, Valladares Faundez, Pablo, Valdés, Julián, Portelli, Sabrina, Santa Cruz, Roy, Aparicio, James, Garcia, Noelia & Langstroth, Robert, 2020, Unravelling interspecific relationships among highland lizards: first phylogenetic hypothesis using total evidence of the Liolaemus montanus group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 (1), pp. 349-377 : 359

Liolaemus dorbignyi clade

This clade includes L. dorbignyi Koslowski, 1898 , Liolaemus huayra Abdala et al., 2008 , Liolaemus aff. jamesi 3, Demangel, 2016, Liolaemus inti Abdala et al., 2008 , Liolaemus puritamensis Núñez & Fox, 1989 , Liolaemus scrocchii Quinteros et al., 2008 , Liolaemus vulcanus Quinteros & Abdala, 2011 and four terminals of uncertain taxonomic status: L. aff. huayra , L. aff. jamesi 1, L. aff. jamesi 2 and L. aff. puritamensis ( Fig. 3 ). These are large, saxicolous lizards, with maximal SVL = 98 mm, wide bodies, short tails in relationship to SVL, large, smooth to weakly keeled, juxtaposed to subimbricate dorsals, with exposed black skin and numerous heteronote granules between the scales of the dorsum and flanks, a large, dark spot on the dorsal surfaces of the head and neck, little evident sexual dichromatism in various species, and a ventral region with a dark reticulate pattern. The L. dorbignyi clade occurs in north-western Argentina, north-eastern Chile, south-western Bolivia and extreme southeastern Peru ( Fig. 6 ) and is supported by one continuous character and 11 coloration characters. This group was recovered in all of the hypotheses obtained.

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Figure 3. Total evidence hypothesis. Topology recovered by total evidence analysis under parsimony. Numbers below branches correspond to symmetric resampling.

Figure 6. Map showing distribution of the taxa members of the Liolaemus dorbignyi, Liolaemus forsteri, Liolaemus robustus and Liolaemus huacahuasicus clades.