Liolaemus poecilochromus, Laurent, 1986

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 : 357

Liolaemus poecilochromus clade

This clade is composed of three described species ( Liolaemus pleopholis Laurent, 1998 ( L.poecilochromus Laurent, 1986 + L. halonastes )) ( Fig. 3 ). They are medium-sized lizards, but L. pleopholis exceeds 85 mm (maximal SVL), possessing smooth, juxtaposed dorsals, with ≤ 90 scales around the midbody. These species are distributed in north-western Argentina, north-eastern Chile and adjacent Bolivia ( Fig. 5 ). The clade is supported by six continuous characters and five colour characters (Supporting Information, Table S1). This clade was not recovered in the hypotheses where K = 3–11 (only the relationship between L. poecilochromus and L. halonastes was maintained), but where K = 13–15, this clade was recovered as sister to the multicolor clade.

Figures

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

Figure 5. Map showing distribution of the taxa members of the Liolaemus andinus, Liolaemus multicolor, Liolaemus poecilochromus and Liolaemus erguetae clades.