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1 December 2008 Two New Species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from the Puna of Northwestern Argentina
Cristian Simón Abdala, Andrés Sebastián Quinteros, Robert E. Espinoza
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Abstract

We describe two new species of Liolaemus belonging to the montanus series. The new species are closely related to L. dorbignyi, but are disjunctly distributed with respect to this taxon. Both new species exhibit unique color patterns, which, along with differences in squamation, differentiate the two new taxa from the other species in the series. Both new species are saxicolous and inhabit rocky hills in the Puna regions of northwestern Argentina. One occurs in the Cerro de la Virgen, Nevados de Cachi and Nevados de Palermo of Salta Province. The other is known only from its type locality in the Cerro El Pichao of Tucumán Province.

Cristian Simón Abdala, Andrés Sebastián Quinteros, and Robert E. Espinoza "Two New Species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from the Puna of Northwestern Argentina," Herpetologica 64(4), 458-471, (1 December 2008). https://doi.org/10.1655/08-022R1.1
Accepted: 1 November 2008; Published: 1 December 2008
KEYWORDS
Argentina
Eulaemus
Liolaemidae
Liolaemus
lizard
new species
puna
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