1. Comentarios y adiciones sobre especies recientemente descritas del grupo Liolaemus montanus procedentes de Perú.
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Aguilar-Puntriano, César and Salazar, Esther B.
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WILDLIFE conservation , *LIOLAEMUS , *PHENOTYPES , *MITOCHONDRIA , *SPECIES - Abstract
In this paper, information is added and comments are made about two recently described Peruvian species of Liolaemus from the montanus group: L. balagueri and L. qalaywa. When L. balagueri was described, differences from L. nazca was based on a phylogenetic analysis of a single mitochondrial locus, but without including phenotypic diagnostic traits that might differentiated them. On the other hand, L. qalaywa description was based upon specimens from Apurirnac department and intraspecific variation in meristic traits were missing. In this study, we added a molecular and morphological analyses between L. balagueri and L. nazca, supporting more rigorously the separation between these two taxa. In addition, the geographic range of L. qalaywa is extended to Cusco department (southwestern Peru), intraspecific variation of morphological characteristics and geographic information up to 79 specimens are included, and the conservation issues of this species is commented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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