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.
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17584. Adult male. Gualcamayo (
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;
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) at 2.440 mts., Jáchal Department, San Juan Province. Col. J. Marinero, R. Buff y J. Villavicencio,
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.
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.
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IMCN-UNSJ 3002. Adult male. Riverbed of the Guandacol River (
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;
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) at 2.762 mts., Coronel Felipe Varela Department. La Rioja Province. Col. M.
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and J. Márquez,
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.
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FML 17585. Adult male. Between Entre Rios School and Villa Mercedes Town, Jáchal Department, San Juan Province. Col. C. Abdala, S. Barrionuevo y M.J. Tulli,
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.
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FML 7484-95.
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specimens. Between Punta de Agua and las Chacaritas,
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to the West of Alto Jagüe, General Lamadrid Department, La Rioja Province. Col. S. Torres, S. Kretzschmar, J.C. Moreta and C. Salvatierra, February, 1998.
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F63F4F9CDFED3FA17" bold="true" box="[198,339,1464,1490]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Etymology.</emphasis>
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It makes reference to the aspect of the coloration pattern which is similar to the american feline
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.
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F63F4FA7DFEC6F9E7" bold="true" box="[198,326,1544,1570]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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) belongs to the
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family according to
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Frost
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F6667FA7CFA0DF9E7" box="[1365,1421,1545,1570]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">et al</emphasis>
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., (2001)
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. Together with
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F6294FA45FDBCF98C" box="[422,572,1584,1609]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Diplolaemus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F614BFA45FC9CF98C" box="[633,796,1584,1609]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Pristidactylus</emphasis>
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genera,
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belongs to the
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F67F7FA45FAE0F98C" box="[1221,1376,1584,1609]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Leiosaurinae</emphasis>
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subfamily (
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Frost
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F620BFA22FEEDF9B5" box="[313,365,1623,1648]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">et al</emphasis>
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., 2001
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). It clearly differs from all other members of genus due to the dorsal coloration pattern, the lepidosis and morphometric characters. The dorsal coloration pattern of
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F6752FA0BFB62F952" box="[1120,1250,1662,1687]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
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presents dorsal markings on the vertebral line in form of circles or semicircles with diffuse borders, absent or faded dorsolateral markings, rounded marked tail or with irregular rings and ventral body with or without little markings or dark scales irregularly disposed while
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F6165FA81FD57F8C8" box="[599,727,1780,1805]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">L. paronae</emphasis>
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presents big and defined “lily” shaped spots on the vertebral line, big dorsolateral and circular spots or transverse to the axis body, tail with alternate dark and light rings and ventrally body with clearly defined markings (
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).
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presents dorsal and dorsolateral uniform and granular squamation which do not form a protruding crest over the vertebral line or groupings of dorsolateral scales in contrast to
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD64E27F615CFBE4FD6EF86F" box="[622,750,1937,1962]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD64E27F615CFBE4FD6EF86F" box="[622,750,1937,1962]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">L. paronae</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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which presents in its body (mainly over the vertebral line) protruding conical scales which are bigger than the rest and which are keeled forming a vertebral crest which is unique among the species of the group. Moreover,
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||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6036FCEDFC03FF74" box="[772,899,152,177]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6036FCEDFC03FF74" box="[772,899,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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present uniform head scales without two protruding scales placed to both sides and behind the interparietal scale, characteristic in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C67B8FCCAFA8AFF1D" box="[1162,1290,191,216]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C67B8FCCAFA8AFF1D" box="[1162,1290,191,216]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. paronae</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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.
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||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6628FCCAFF79FF3A" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6628FCCAFF79FF3A" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Leiosaurus jaguaris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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presents gular and ventral rounded scales which are smooth and subjuxtaposed or juxtaposed while
|
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C63A5FD7BFE98FEE2" box="[151,280,270,295]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C63A5FD7BFE98FEE2" box="[151,280,270,295]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. paronae</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has keeled conic gular scales that ending in nib and triangular ventrals, monocarinate and imbricate.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C63EAFD40FE48FE8B" box="[216,456,309,334]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C63EAFD40FE48FE8B" box="[216,456,309,334]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Leiosaurus jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
presents dorsal markings on the vertebral line, but they are never “shark tooth” shaped like in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6273FD29FE1CFEB0" box="[321,412,348,373]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6273FD29FE1CFEB0" box="[321,412,348,373]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. bellii</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
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||
).
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6138FD29FD75FEB0" box="[522,757,348,373]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6138FD29FD75FEB0" box="[522,757,348,373]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Leiosaurus jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has round ventral scales or little markings irregularly distributed while
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6276FDF6FE20FE59" box="[324,416,387,412]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6276FDF6FE20FE59" box="[324,416,387,412]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. bellii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has a darker abdomen with longitudinal thin markings and a white line on the central part of the abdomen; this character is absent in the species hereby described. The rostral scale of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C63A5FDA4FE98FE2F" box="[151,280,465,490]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C63A5FDA4FE98FE2F" box="[151,280,465,490]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
can not be distinguished form the supralabial ones; temporal region with a line of big scales which continues together with the scales of the subocular region, in contrast to the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C671CFD8CFB0BFDD7" box="[1070,1163,505,530]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C671CFD8CFB0BFDD7" box="[1070,1163,505,530]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. bellii</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, whose rostral scale is well differentiated and protruding with a rectangular form and whose temporal scales are more consistent with no big differenced scales. Moreover,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C617FFE32FD4FFDA5" box="[589,719,583,608]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C617FFE32FD4FFDA5" box="[589,719,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
presents subdigital lamellae with mucrones in all the toes of feet and hands, while
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C62A9FE1BFE77FD42" box="[411,503,622,647]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C62A9FE1BFE77FD42" box="[411,503,622,647]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. bellii</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
presents subdigital lamellae without mucrones.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6700FE1BFA9FFD42" box="[1074,1311,622,647]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6700FE1BFA9FFD42" box="[1074,1311,622,647]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Leiosaurus jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
presents a coloration pattern which is very different from the one of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6007FEE3FC7BFD6A" box="[821,1019,662,687]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6007FEE3FC7BFD6A" box="[821,1019,662,687]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
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||
<figureCitation id="DDB139C7FD67E27C6739FEE0FBD3FD6A" box="[1035,1107,661,687]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="5.[151,255,1434,1458]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,554,1426]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,554,1518]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 4. Leiosaurus catamarcensis Adult male, from Baldecitos, San Juan Province. Photo: Cristian S. Abdala." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273762/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
|
||
), which has diffuse spots on the vertebral line in form of circles or semicircles and a lot of circular little spots irregularly distributed and with different colours to give a tiger “striped” look, while in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6056FE91FBACFD38" box="[868,1068,740,765]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6056FE91FBACFD38" box="[868,1068,740,765]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
the dorsal spots are bigger and more defined with no little spots on the back of the body. Besides,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6738FF7EFB13FCE1" box="[1034,1171,779,804]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6738FF7EFB13FCE1" box="[1034,1171,779,804]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has a continuous or discontinuous dark line which follows the supralabial scales up to the auditory meatus and, as was stated before, present smooth ventral scales on the pectoral region, while in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C60E8FF2CFB23FCB7" box="[986,1187,857,882]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C60E8FF2CFB23FCB7" box="[986,1187,857,882]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, in some specimens, presents some dark or orange supralabial scales and the ventral scales are lightly careened. Also ventrally, in the abdominal region, the scales of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6154FFDDFD67FC04" box="[614,743,936,961]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6154FFDDFD67FC04" box="[614,743,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are juxtaposed while in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C6738FFDDFB52FC04" box="[1034,1234,936,961]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6738FFDDFB52FC04" box="[1034,1234,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are imbricate. In
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C63A5FFBAFE98FC2D" box="[151,280,975,1000]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C63A5FFBAFE98FC2D" box="[151,280,975,1000]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
there are not conic shaped scales protruding from the rest of the vertebral line in contrast to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD67E27C667DFFBAFE9BFBCA" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C667DFFBAFE9BFBCA" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
which presents some protruding scales, mainly on the front part of the body.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
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<paragraph id="45352542FD67E27C63A5FBA9FB97F831" blockId="2.[151,1047,2012,2036]" box="[151,1047,2012,2036]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C63A5FBA9FE99F831" bold="true" box="[151,281,2012,2036]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
|
||
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD67E27C6212FBA8FE17F831" box="[288,407,2013,2036]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6CCD442BFD67E27C62AFFBA8FE6FF831" box="[413,495,2013,2036]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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||
(Paratype, FML 17585). Photo: Cristian S. Abdala.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<caption id="11F575CAFD66E27D63A5F846FAD5FB8F" box="[151,1365,1075,1099]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273760/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" targetBox="[151,1435,194,1051]" targetPageId="3">
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<paragraph id="45352542FD66E27D63A5F846FAD5FB8F" blockId="3.[151,1365,1075,1099]" box="[151,1365,1075,1099]" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD66E27D63A5F846FE99FB8E" bold="true" box="[151,281,1075,1099]" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD66E27D6212F846FE75FB8F" box="[288,501,1075,1098]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD66E27D6212F846FE75FB8F" box="[288,501,1075,1098]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Leiosaurus paronae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Adult male, from Reserva Bosques Telteca. Mendoza. Photo: Leonardo Muñoz.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<subSubSection id="0D9076C9FD66E27863F4F80BFBB5FEEF" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="53" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" type="description">
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||
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD66E27D63F4F80BFE7BFB5D" bold="true" box="[198,507,1150,1176]" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">
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||
Description of
|
||
<typeStatus id="9A319BE0FD66E27D62B0F80BFE76FB5D" box="[386,502,1150,1176]" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
Adult male, snout-vent length (
|
||
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||
.). Tail length (
|
||
<quantity id="827288A7FD66E27D67AAF80BFA97FB5D" box="[1176,1303,1150,1176]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.145" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" unit="mm" value="114.5">114.5 mm</quantity>
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||
.) measured from the base of the vent up to the distal end; length of the torso (
|
||
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.) measured from the base of the neck up to the vent; width of the torso (
|
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||
.). Big and distinctive triangular head 1.32 times longer (
|
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||
.) than wide (
|
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.), head height (
|
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.), eye diameter (
|
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.), eye-upper lip distance (
|
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.), eye-ear length (
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.). Very narrow auditory meatus, height of (
|
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.), and width (
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.). Distance between nares (
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.). Snout length (
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.) measured from the end of snout to the orbit. Size of the thigh (
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.), tibia-fibula (
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.) and foot (
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.). Distance between anterior and posterior limbs (
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). Humerus length (
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.), forearm (
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.) and hand (
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.). Vent width (
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.). Tail thin and depressed, 1.9 times longer than torso. Gular fold complete. Rough dorsal surface of the head, cephalic irregular and sub-conic scales. Supraorbital semicircles not very differentiated, separated by two rows of cuspidate scales indistinct from 16–19 marginal scales also cuspidate which skirt the semicircles. These semicircles are occupied by tiny granular and juxtaposed scales indistinct from 17 irregular and non prominent superciliars. Frontal and front parietal scales not regionalized and subdivided, parietal scales softly cuspidate, always smaller than the interparietal, elongated and surrounded by 9 irregular scales, small pineal organ but recognizable. Temporal scales with small granular scales in the centre, surrounded to the anterior area by irregular scales which are strongly cuspidate and limited by an upper furrow of prominent variable in size and form scales. Granular tympanic scales not prominent. Rounded and prominent nasal scale, pentagonal canthal scale separated from the nasal scale by 2 scales. Irregular and small internasal scales. Rostral undistinguishable from postrostrals, flat prominent pentagonal mental scale, wider than high, in contact with 8 rounded postmentals, 18 pentagonal supralabials not very variable separated from the nasal scale by four rows of flat small scales, 17 pentagonal infralabials. No flattened snout, slightly prominent loreolabial area, irregular supranasal scales undistinguishable from loreolabials. One hundred seventy eight scales around the body. Two hundred eight round, smooth and imbricate ventral scales. Tail with cuspidate and imbricate dorsal and lateral scales. Smooth, rounded and imbricate infracauldal scales. Distal end of tail with regularly rectangular scales, strongly imbricate. Sub-rounded antehumeral scales, the same as antebrachial scales which are enlarged in the near end of the manus. Granular back antehumeral and antebranchial scales. Prominent, sub-conical fore tibial scales, plain, rounded back tibials. Fourth finger with 20 tricarenate subdigital lamellae and fourth foot finger with 34 tricarenate subdigital lamellae. Irregular post auricular fold and antehumeral fold well marked. Infracarpals and infratarsals imbricate bicarenate or tricarenate lamellae. Monocuspidate teeth.
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD61E27A63A5F883FE98FACB" bold="true" box="[151,280,1270,1294]" pageId="4" pageNumber="51">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD61E27A622DF883FE52FAC8" box="[287,466,1270,1293]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="4" pageNumber="51" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD61E27A622DF883FE52FAC8" box="[287,466,1270,1293]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="51">Leiosaurus bellii</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Adult male, from El Cortaderal, Malargüe Department, Mendoza Province. Photo: Cristian S. Abdala.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD61E27A63F4F916FE59FAB8" bold="true" box="[198,473,1379,1405]" pageId="4" pageNumber="51">Coloration in ethanol.</emphasis>
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Dorsally, head with numerous dark brown spots distributed irregularly and with a drawing with a light gray “whale tail” form surrounded by a black rim. Head with two parallel stripes of dark brown or black colour laterally. The wider stripe goes from the back of the eye up to the upper front area of the auditory meatus. The other one has the same colour, but it is thinner and broken; it goes over the supralabial scale to the lower front area of the auditory meatus. Ventrally the head has some diffused brown spots. Dorsal body of light gray colour with numerous spots and irregular dots of dark brown colour distributed all over the body and limbs in an irregular way. Vertebral stripe not very much distinguishable and three vertebral spots which are light gray in the centre and black in the rim with a reinforce form. The back irregular vertebral spots are not distinguishable. The sides of the body have numerous light brown spots of different sizes which are irregularly distributed. In ventral pattern, it has light gray body with few diffused dots. In a dorsal and ventral pattern, tail has same colour and pattern as the body.
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD61E27A63F4FB6EFE66F8F0" bold="true" box="[198,486,1819,1845]" pageId="4" pageNumber="51">
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Variation in
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<typeStatus id="9A319BE0FD61E27A6251FB6EFE61F8F0" box="[355,481,1819,1845]" pageId="4" pageNumber="51" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
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.
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</emphasis>
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Based on fourteen adult individuals, seven males and seven females.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="45352542FD61E27B63F4FB36FD69FE37" blockId="4.[151,1437,1379,2005]" lastBlockId="5.[151,1436,152,498]" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="52" pageId="4" pageNumber="51">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD61E27A63F4FB36FDD2F898" bold="true" box="[198,594,1859,1885]" pageId="4" pageNumber="51">Morphometry and squamation.</emphasis>
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The head is longer (
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. x=
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.) than wider (
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. x=
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.) (
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). Height of the head (
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. x =
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.), neck is narrower than the head and trunk. Robust body, the length of the trunk is 1.3 times bigger in relation to the body and the snoutvent length is 2.8 times bigger in relation to the body. Snout-vent length in males and females jointly: (
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. x=
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.). Tail length (
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. x= 98, 7 mm.). The tail length is 1.2 times longer than snout-vent length. Dorsal head surface is rough, formed by conical scales. Rostral divided in 2 or 4 scales. Among 3–5 rows of loreolabials of minor size than the supralabials. Fourteen – 22 supralabials. Seventeen – 20 infralabials. Distinguishable interparietal of bigger size than parietals and surrounded by 8 – 10 scales. Six– 8 scales in contact with the mental scale. Smaller granular auricular scales in the lower front margin of the meatus. Scales around the body (both sex overall) 189 – 212, x= 205, 2. Without precloacal pores in males and females. Very marked gular fold. Dorsal scales, granular, conical, which finish in end, juxtaposed without keels. Ventral scales are bigger than dorsal scales. Hands and feet subdigital tricarenate scales. Laminar infracarpal and infratarsal scales, imbricate and triffids.
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD60E27B63A5F9EFFE99FA77" bold="true" box="[151,281,1434,1458]" pageId="5" pageNumber="52">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD60E27B6212F9EFFDB6FA74" box="[288,566,1434,1457]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="52" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD60E27B6212F9EFFDB6FA74" box="[288,566,1434,1457]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="52">Leiosaurus catamarcensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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Adult male, from Baldecitos, San Juan Province. Photo: Cristian S. Abdala.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
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<paragraph id="45352542FD60E27863F4F991FBB5FEEF" blockId="5.[151,1437,1508,2015]" lastBlockId="6.[151,1437,152,298]" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="53" pageId="5" pageNumber="52">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD60E27B63F4F991FED5FA3B" bold="true" box="[198,341,1508,1534]" pageId="5" pageNumber="52">Coloration.</emphasis>
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Dorsal head (
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<figureCitation id="DDB139C7FD60E27B6133F990FDCAFA3A" box="[513,586,1509,1535]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="6.[151,255,1402,1426]" captionTargetBox="[151,1434,299,1377]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[151,1436,286,1378]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 5. Head of Leiosaurus sp. nov. (Paratype, FML 17585). Photo: Cristian S. Abdala." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273763/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="52">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
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||
) with numerous dark brown spots and dots distributed irregularly and with a white or light gray “whale tail” drawing surrounded by a black or dark brown rim. This drawing is found in the other species in the genus. Two parallel dark brown or black stripes are distinguished in the head laterally. The widest stripe is found from the back part of the eye to the upper front area of the auditory meatus. The other stripe, same colour but thinner than the first one and broken in various specimens, is found from the supralabials scales to the lower front area of the auditory meatus. Ventrally, the head with numerous light and dark brown spots or stripes longitudinally to the body, in most cases with “cascade” appearance. Light brown or light grey dorsal body with numerous irregular spots or dark brown and light brown dots irregularly distributed all over the body and limbs. With marked vertebral line from the occiput to the upper limbs, then it mixes with big vertebral marks in reniforme form or in complete circle or broken in the middle. Such spots of light grey colour in the center and with various black or dark brown dots in the exterior rim. Five-7 vertebral spots. Some
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD60E27B62C6FBE8FDF6F873" box="[500,630,1949,1974]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="5" pageNumber="52" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD60E27B62C6FBE8FDF6F873" box="[500,630,1949,1974]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="52">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
specimens exhibit variation to this coloration pattern. The vertebral spots can be diffused or absent, or totally distinguishable and prominent. At the sides of the body it can be distinguished numerous spots of different size, dark brown or light brown distributed irregularly. Without paravertebral spots. Ventrally white or light gray body with some dots of the same colour as the back. Dorsal tail with the same pattern as the body; in some specimens the vertebral spots form incomplete rings. Ventral tail of the same colour as the abdomen, with some diffuse or immaculate spots.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27863A5F90FFE99FA57" bold="true" box="[151,281,1402,1426]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
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Head of
|
||
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E278624EF90FFE72FA54" box="[380,498,1402,1425]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6CCD442BFD63E27862CBF90FFDCBFA54" box="[505,587,1402,1425]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
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(Paratype, FML 17585). Photo: Cristian S. Abdala.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
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<subSubSection id="0D9076C9FD63E27663F4F9B1FAC6F970" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="55" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="45352542FD63E27863F4F9B1FE87F9EA" blockId="6.[151,1437,1476,2023]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27863F4F9B1FEE7FA1B" bold="true" box="[198,359,1476,1502]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Distribution.</emphasis>
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(
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<figureCitation id="DDB139C7FD63E278624BF9B0FE3BFA1A" box="[377,443,1477,1503]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="7.[151,255,1990,2014]" captionTargetBox="[339,1226,533,1989]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[318,1277,474,2018]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 6. Distribution of the Leiosaurus species of Argentina based in collections specimen (see Appendix 1)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273764/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Fig.6</figureCitation>
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).
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||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27862E3F9B0FDD3FA1B" box="[465,595,1477,1502]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27862E3F9B0FDD3FA1B" box="[465,595,1477,1502]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is only known in Gualcamayo (
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<typeStatus id="9A319BE0FD63E27860E7F9B0FB89FA1A" box="[981,1033,1477,1503]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">type</typeStatus>
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locality), San Juan Province, and near regions, such as Guandacol River to the north of
|
||
<typeStatus id="9A319BE0FD63E2786016F998FCD6F9C2" box="[804,854,1517,1543]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">type</typeStatus>
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locality and to the west of Alto Jagüe, La Rioja Province.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="45352542FD63E27963F4FA49FC1DFE0F" blockId="6.[151,1437,1476,2023]" lastBlockId="7.[151,1437,152,458]" lastPageId="7" lastPageNumber="54" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27863F4FA49FDDAF993" bold="true" box="[198,602,1596,1622]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Natural History and Discussion.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E2786150FA48FCCEF993" box="[610,846,1597,1622]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E2786150FA48FCCEF993" box="[610,846,1597,1622]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Leiosaurus jaguaris</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
lives in a high-altitude area where steppe grazing land with low vegetal coverage and prickly low height bushes predominate (
|
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<figureCitation id="DDB139C7FD63E278673DFA10FBD7F9BA" box="[1039,1111,1637,1663]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="8.[151,255,1182,1206]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,194,1157]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[151,1436,194,1158]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 7. View of habitat of Leiosaurus sp. nov. Type Locality. San Juan Province, Argentina. Photo: Alejandro Laspiur." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273765/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
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). Among the most common species are:
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||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E2786215FAF8FB76F963" box="[295,1270,1677,1702]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E2786215FAF8FD44F963" authority="Heliotropium" authorityName="Heliotropium" box="[295,708,1677,1702]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Asteraceae" genus="Gochnatia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asterales" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="glutinous">Gochnatia glutinous, Heliotropium</taxonomicName>
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||
sp.,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27861CEFAF8FBE7F963" authority="Plectocarpa" authorityName="Plectocarpa" box="[764,1127,1677,1702]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Zygophyllaceae" genus="Larrea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Zygophyllales" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneifolia">Larrea cuneifolia, Plectocarpa</taxonomicName>
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||
tetracantha
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E2786603FAF8FF3AF90B" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E2786603FAF8FF36F90B" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Pristidactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ruogesii">P. ruogesii</taxonomicName>
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.
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||
</emphasis>
|
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The
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||
<typeStatus id="9A319BE0FD63E27863CAFAC0FEABF90A" box="[248,299,1717,1743]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">type</typeStatus>
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specimen was associated to a bush of
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27861C6FAC0FC49F90B" box="[756,969,1717,1742]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">
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<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27861C6FAC0FC46F90B" box="[756,966,1717,1742]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Zygophyllaceae" genus="Larrea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Zygophyllales" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="cuneifolia">Larrea cuneifolia</taxonomicName>
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,
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
in a stony substratum, other specimens under
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<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27863D3FAA8FE5AF933" box="[225,474,1757,1782]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27863D3FAA8FE56F933" box="[225,470,1757,1782]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Asteraceae" genus="Gochnatia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asterales" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="glutinous">Gochnatia glutinous</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
It seems to be a marked association among the representatives of this kind to this
|
||
<typeStatus id="9A319BE0FD63E27863A5FB70FF49F8DA" box="[151,201,1797,1823]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">type</typeStatus>
|
||
of biotopes in accordance with
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD63E2786172FB70FD3DF8DA" author="Cei" box="[576,701,1797,1823]" pageId="6" pageNumber="56" refString="Cei, J. M. (1986). Reptiles del Centro, Centro-Oeste y Sur de la Argentina. Herpetofauna de Zonas Aridas y Semiaridas. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino. Monografie IV, 163 - 168 pp." type="book chapter" year="1986">Cei (1986)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
in the description of the kind of habits of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E278679EFB70FAAEF8DB" box="[1196,1326,1797,1822]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E278679EFB70FAAEF8DB" box="[1196,1326,1797,1822]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. There is little information about the geographic distribution of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E2786022FB58FC13F883" box="[784,915,1837,1862]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E2786022FB58FC13F883" box="[784,915,1837,1862]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and little knowledge of the species included in the group. For
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD63E278625DFB20FDF5F8AA" box="[367,629,1877,1903]" pageId="6" pageNumber="56" refString="Van Devender, T. R. (1977) Observations on the Argentine Iguanid Lizard Leiosaurus bellii Dumeril and Bibron (Reptilia, Lacertia; Iguanidae). Journal of Herpetology, 11 (2), 238 - 241 pp." type="journal article">Van Devender (1977)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27861B6FB20FD61F8AB" box="[644,737,1877,1902]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27861B6FB20FD61F8AB" box="[644,737,1877,1902]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">L. bellii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
highly depend, for protection, of his cryptical coloration. Also, a mighty bite allows this species to have a specialized diet based on
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E278673EFB08FB33F852" box="[1036,1203,1917,1943]" class="Insecta" family="Tenebrionidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tenebrionidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
beetles.
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD63E278662FFB08FA1CF852" author="Cei" box="[1309,1436,1917,1943]" pageId="6" pageNumber="56" refString="Cei, J. M. (1986). Reptiles del Centro, Centro-Oeste y Sur de la Argentina. Herpetofauna de Zonas Aridas y Semiaridas. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino. Monografie IV, 163 - 168 pp." type="book chapter" year="1986">Cei (1986)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
confirm this diet for
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27862A3FBD0FDDAF87B" box="[401,602,1957,1982]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27862A3FBD0FDDAF87B" box="[401,602,1957,1982]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E27861A5FBD0FC98F87B" box="[663,792,1957,1982]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E27861A5FBD0FC98F87B" box="[663,792,1957,1982]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">L. paronae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. For reproduction, there is data about clutch size of a female of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD63E2786226FBB8FC9CF822" authority="Blanco & Acosta, 2003" authorityName="Blanco & Acosta" authorityYear="2003" box="[276,796,1997,2023]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD63E2786226FBB8FE5FF823" box="[276,479,1997,2022]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="53">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD63E27862C3FBB8FC94F822" author="Blanco" box="[497,788,1997,2023]" pageId="6" pageNumber="56" refString="Blanco, G. M. & Acosta, J. C. (2003) Leiosaurus catamarcensis (NCN) Clutch Size. Herpetological Review, 34 (2), 145 pp." type="book" year="2003">Blanco & Acosta, 2003</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, which, in captivity, placed
|
||
<specimenCount id="538CEECBFD63E2786747FBB8FB56F822" box="[1141,1238,1997,2023]" pageId="6" pageNumber="53" type="egg">10 eggs</specimenCount>
|
||
. About thermalphysiology in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD62E2796277FCEDFCE8FF77" authority="Villavicencio et al., (2006)" authorityName="Villavicencio et al." authorityYear="2006" box="[325,872,152,178]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="7" pageNumber="54" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD62E2796277FCEDFD8FFF74" box="[325,527,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="54">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD62E2796113FCEDFCE8FF77" box="[545,872,152,178]" pageId="7" pageNumber="56" refString="Villavicencio, H. J., Laspiur, A. & Acosta, J. C. (2006) Aportes al Conocimiento de la termofisiolog i a de Leiosaurus cataamarcensis (IGUANIA: LEIOSAURIDAE), en San Juan, Argentina. Actas VII Congreso Argentino de Herpetologia, Corrientes, 15 pp." type="book">
|
||
Villavicencio
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD62E27961F5FCEDFD7EFF74" box="[711,766,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="54">et al</emphasis>
|
||
., (2006)
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, established the selected temperature (27.8ºC), and get a thin range (7.9ºC) of max and min voluntaries temperatures or “set points”. However, the range of thermal tolerance is amazing wide (37.87 ºC), exhibiting eurithermy, a condition which relate this species with the thermal characteristics of its habitat, a best aptitude to resist low temperature. Probably, the thermalphysiology of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD62E2796271FD4DFD8BFE94" box="[323,523,312,337]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="7" pageNumber="54" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD62E2796271FD4DFD8BFE94" box="[323,523,312,337]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="54">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, which lives on a warm and desert environment, with thermal variation, like the Argentinean “Monte”, strongly restrict the activity time (in the dawn or in the crepuscule), and the use of microhabitat (caves or tree branches). The thermal characteristics, mimicry and low mobility, are maybe the cause at the low numbers of register and specimens in collections.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption id="11F575CAFD62E27963A5FBB3FACCF818" box="[151,1356,1990,2014]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273764/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="54" targetBox="[339,1226,533,1989]" targetPageId="7">
|
||
<paragraph id="45352542FD62E27963A5FBB3FACCF818" blockId="7.[151,1356,1990,2014]" box="[151,1356,1990,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="54">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD62E27963A5FBB3FE99F81B" bold="true" box="[151,281,1990,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="54">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
|
||
Distribution of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD62E27962D9FBB2FDE1F81B" box="[491,609,1991,2014]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="7" pageNumber="54" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD62E27962D9FBB2FDE1F81B" box="[491,609,1991,2014]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="54">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species of Argentina based in collections specimen (see Appendix 1).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<caption id="11F575CAFD6DE27663A5F8EBFF6EFB1D" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273765/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" targetBox="[151,1435,194,1157]" targetPageId="8">
|
||
<paragraph id="45352542FD6DE27663A5F8EBFF6EFB1D" blockId="8.[151,1436,1182,1240]" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE27663A5F8EBFE9DFB73" bold="true" box="[151,285,1182,1206]" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
|
||
View of habitat of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE27662CDF8EBFDF6FB70" box="[511,630,1182,1205]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE27662CDF8EBFDF6FB70" box="[511,630,1182,1205]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6CCD442BFD6DE27661B2F8EBFD56FB70" box="[640,726,1182,1205]" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
Type Locality. San Juan Province, Argentina. Photo: Alejandro Laspiur.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph id="45352542FD6DE27663F4F97EFAC6F970" blockId="8.[151,1436,1291,1717]" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Among the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE2766267F979FE57FAE0" box="[341,471,1292,1317]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE2766267F979FE57FAE0" box="[341,471,1292,1317]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">Leiosaurus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species, there are variation in both, coloration patterns and lepidosis characters. Being these differences obvious when we differentiate
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE276601AF941FC2AFA88" box="[808,938,1332,1357]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE276601AF941FC2AFA88" box="[808,938,1332,1357]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
at
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE27660E0F941FBD4FA88" box="[978,1108,1332,1357]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE27660E0F941FBD4FA88" box="[978,1108,1332,1357]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. paronae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE27667A2F941FB6CFA88" box="[1168,1260,1332,1357]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE27667A2F941FB6CFA88" box="[1168,1260,1332,1357]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. bellii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. However, the differences between these species, there are important similitude. The presence of smooth ventral scales in the pectoral zone is character states which allow us to differentiate
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE27660BFF9F1FB8FFA58" box="[909,1039,1412,1437]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE27660BFF9F1FB8FFA58" box="[909,1039,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
at
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE2766704F9F1FB7FFA58" box="[1078,1279,1412,1437]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE2766704F9F1FB7FFA58" box="[1078,1279,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, who exhibit slightly keeled ventral scales (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD6DE27662C7F9DEFD46FA00" author="Koslowsky" box="[501,710,1451,1477]" pageId="8" pageNumber="56" refString="Koslowsky, J. (1898) Enumeracion Sistematica y distribucion geografica de los reptiles argentinos. Revista del Museo de La Plata, Tomo VIII, 161 pp." type="book" year="1898">Koslowsky, 1898</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). In
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD6DE27661CAF9DEFC54FA00" box="[760,980,1451,1477]" pageId="8" pageNumber="56" refString="Frost, D. R., Etheridge, R., Janies, D. & Titus, T. A. (2001) Total evidence, sequence alignment, evolution of polychrotid lizards, and a reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata: Iguania). American Museum Novitates, 3343, 1 - 38." type="journal article">
|
||
Frost
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE2766009F9D9FCEEFA00" box="[827,878,1452,1477]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">et al</emphasis>
|
||
., (2001)
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
, there is no mention about the “slightly keeled” state in this character. So, with this work, we contributed to a more exhaustive study of the known characters and adding new morphological characters, present in the taxon described here, for phylogenetic analysis. A general morphological study could establish the relationships between the new species and the others members of the genus. The sexual dichromatism present in the three species of the genus (
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="211B58B3FD6DE2766621FA3EFF53F948" author="Frost" pageId="8" pageNumber="56" refString="Frost, D. R., Etheridge, R., Janies, D. & Titus, T. A. (2001) Total evidence, sequence alignment, evolution of polychrotid lizards, and a reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata: Iguania). American Museum Novitates, 3343, 1 - 38." type="journal article" year="2001">
|
||
Frost
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE276666BFA39FA0DF9A0" box="[1369,1421,1612,1637]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">et al</emphasis>
|
||
., 2001
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) is not present in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE2766297FA01FDA6F948" box="[421,550,1652,1677]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE2766297FA01FDA6F948" box="[421,550,1652,1677]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. In the same work, this author indicate that the adult females of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE276662BFA01FAF4F948" box="[1305,1396,1652,1677]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bellii">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE276662BFA01FAF4F948" box="[1305,1396,1652,1677]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. bellii</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
;
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE27666B6FA01FF78F970" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paronae">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE27666B6FA01FF78F970" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. paronae</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
y
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE2766226FAE9FE5BF970" box="[276,475,1692,1717]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="catamarcensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE2766226FAE9FE5BF970" box="[276,475,1692,1717]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. catamarcensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are larger than adult males; this condition neither is present in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="828A5EC1FD6DE276678CFAE9FABEF970" box="[1214,1342,1692,1717]" class="Reptilia" family="Leiosauridae" genus="Leiosaurus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="55" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jaguaris">
|
||
<emphasis id="77FEF950FD6DE276678CFAE9FABEF970" box="[1214,1342,1692,1717]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="55">L. jaguaris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
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