Liolaemus reichei Werner, 1907

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 reichei Werner, 1907 clade

This clade is composed of 15 terminals, of which five correspond to described species and ten correspond to populations of uncertain taxonomic status( Fig.3 ).These are small-bodied lizards (maximal SVL = 65 mm), with short tails in relationship to SVL, heads almost as wide as long, isognathus profiles, between 45 and 75 scales around the midbody, and between 50 and 90 smooth, juxtaposed dorsals. The clade is supported by five continuous characters, four discrete characters and four colour characters (Supporting Information, Table S1). The L. reichei clade is recovered in all hypotheses, with the same composition and always divided into the same two subclades. One subclade includes four described species [ Liolaemus audituvelatus Núñez & Yáñez, 1983 , Liolaemus poconchilensis Valladares, 2002 , L. reichei Werner, 1907 and Liolaemus torresi ( Núñez et al., 2003) ] and two populations of uncertain taxonomic status, all of which are distributed in northwestern Chile ( Fig. 3 ). The other subclade is composed of nine terminals, of which only Liolaemus insolitus Cei, 1982 has been described formally, evidencing the diversity awaiting description in this subclade. This clade is found in southern Peru, primarily in coastal zones ( Fig. 4 ).

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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 4. Map showing distribution of the taxa members of the Liolaemus chlorostictus, Liolaemus reichei, Liolaemus jamesi and Liolaemus ortizi clades.