Liolaemus andinus, Pincheira-Donoso & Nunez, 2005

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 andinus clade

This clade is composed of 20 terminals, of which 12 correspond to described species and eight represent populations of uncertain taxonomic status ( Fig. 3 ). The majority of these species are distributed in Andean regions, primarily in Argentina and Chile ( Fig. 5 ). It includes medium-sized lizards, but some species reach a SVL of 90 mm [i.e. Liolaemus nigriceps (Philippi, 1860) and Liolaemus patriciaiturrae Navarro & Núñez, 1993 ], with smooth to weakly keeled body scales, largely juxtaposed or subimbricate, high scale counts around the midbody (≤ 120), dorsals ≤ 115 and ventrals ≤ 120. This clade is supported by two continuous characters, two lepidosis characters, one colour character and 12 molecular characters (Supporting Information, Table S1). This clade was recovered in all of the runs performed, with variations of the internal topology.

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.