A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania)
Author
Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel
Author
Scolaro, J. Alejandro
Author
Sura, Piotr
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-06-16
1800
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journal article
86426
10.5281/zenodo.6789337
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6789337
Complex
boulengeri
An appreciable amount of research has been devoted to understand the diversity, biogeography and phylogenetic relationships of the
Liolaemus
species
belonging to the complex
boulengeri
(
Etheridge 1993
,
1995
,
2000
;
Morando
et al.
2004
;
Abdala 2007
; see also
Halloy
et al.
1998
;
Cruz
et al.
2005
). Indeed, this group of
Liolaemus
is perhaps the best known phylogenetically within the entire family
Liolaemidae
. In general, most phylogenetic hypotheses support the idea that two major clades form this large complex of species, one recognized as
wiegmannii
clade or subgenus
Ortholaemus
(
Cei 1993
;
Etheridge 1995
,
2000
;
Espinoza
et al.
2004
;
Cruz
et al.
2005
), and the other as
fitzingerii
clade (
Pincheira-Donoso & Núñez 2005
; see
Etheridge 1995
;
Schulte
et al.
2000
, for phylogenetic details).