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Issue: Vol. 4441 No. 3: 28 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.2
Page range: 447–466
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An updated phylogeny and morphological study of the Phymaturus vociferator clade (Iguania: Liolaemidae)

Programa de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia 1027, Casilla 70005, Santiago, Chile.
Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC & Laboratorio Internacional en Cambio Global CSIC-PUC (LINCGlobal), Calle José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain. Centro Iberoamericano de Biodiversidad CIBIO, Universidad de Alicante, Campus Universitario San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, 03690 Alicante.
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (FCEFyN), Universidad Nacional Universidad Nacional de San Juan—Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Av. José I. de la Roza 590 (0). J5402DCS, Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina.
Departamento de Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural de San Marcos (MUSM), Av. Arenales 1256, Jesús María, Lima, Perú. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas Antonio Raimondi, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
Reptilia lizard Phymaturus palluma Chile Andes multilocus new species

Abstract

Species delimitation in Phymaturus has been a difficult task due to the highly conserved morphological and ecological features present in this genus. Almost all species of Phymaturus have been described without DNA data or lacking statistical analyses which makes even more difficult to compare species. Although two molecular phylogenetic studies have been recently published, here we provide the first multilocus phylogenetic reconstruction including all Chilean species, with samples from all type localities and some previously unsampled populations. We also estimate pairwise distances among the Chilean species of Phymaturus (P. vociferator and P. mallimaccii clades) and compare our results with the P. payuniae clade, where previous studies have used multiple lines of evidence. Additionally, we performed univariate and multivariate morphological analyses and skeletal comparisons (clavicle) for the species of the P. vociferator clade. As a result of this integrative approach, we describe a new species.

 

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