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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-05-30
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Liolaemus jamesi (Boulenger, 1891): restriction of the type locality and holotype characterization (Squamata: Liolaemidae)

Laboratorio de Fisiología y Biofísica, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Uni­versidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Centro de Investigación en Medio Ambiente (CENIMA), Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile.
Department of Life Sciences, Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, England.
Reptilia Squamata Liolaemidae

Abstract

Liolaemus is one of the most diverse genus of lizards in the world (Esquerré et al. 2013), with 257 species listed in the last review focusing on its diversity (Abdala & Quinteros 2014). Certain species within this genus, especially the earlier ones, were described in very little detail, even lacking an appropriate description of the holotype and/or type locality. This has created uncertainties in the taxonomic identity of several Liolaemus species (Espinoza et al. 2011; Quinteros et al. 2008; Troncoso-Palacios & Garin 2013; Langstroth 2011).

 

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