Liolaemus magellanicus (Hombron & Jacquinot)

Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel, Scolaro, J. Alejandro & Sura, Piotr, 2008, A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania), Zootaxa 1800, pp. 1-85 : 37

Line magellanicus

Laurent (1995a) proposed the monotypic subgenus Austroleamus for L. magellanicus (which was therefore designated as the type species). However, in later studies (e.g. Etheridge & Espinoza 2000) it has been considered a synonym of Liolaemus . Even though available evidence suggests that Liolaemus magellanicus would represent a phylogenetically independent line within the Liolaemus genus (see Fig. 4 ), additional evidence may be still required to recognize Austrolaemus as a valid subgenus. Following a strict phylogenetic criteria, Austroleamus should indeed be validated.

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FIGURE 4. Phylogenetic relationships between the Liolaemus species of the series signifer (subgenera Donosolaemus, Vilcunia and Eulaemus, and line magellanicus). The main structure of the tree is based on Schulte et al.’s (2000, 2004) and Espinoza et al.’s (2004) phylogenetic hypotheses. Additional details on phylogenetic relationships between species within each clade have been taken from specific phylogenetic studies (e.g. Avila et al. 2007; Pincheira-Donoso et al. 2007a).