Abstract

ABDALA, Cristian Simón  and  QUINTEROS, Andrés Sebastián. Los últimos 30 años de estudios de la familia de lagartijas más diversa de Argentina: Actualización taxonómica y sistemática de Liolaemidae. Cuad. herpetol. [online]. 2014, vol.28, n.2, pp.55-82. ISSN 1852-5768.

The Liolaemidae family, it is formed by the genera Ctenoblepharys, Liolaemus and Phymaturus. Is the most diverse family of south Southamerica, and has experienced an impressive growth in the last 30 years. Many studies related to different disciplines within Biology have been carrying out using genera and species which are members of Liolaemidae. Nevertheless, taxonomic and phylogenetic results are the most evident. The genus Liolaemus is the most diverse of Iguania, and its number of taxa grows up considerably year after year. Phymaturus shows an intermediate diversity inside the family. However in the last decade, has tripled its species diversity. Owing to the diversity of the family, there have been proposed many taxonomic arrangement and phyloge­netic proposals. Is unquestionable that the creation of the Asociación Herpetológica Argentina in 1983, generate a fundamental advance in the study and knowledge of Herpetofauna from Argentina, and those is reflexed in the knowledge of Liolaemidae. In this work, we perform a taxonomic and phylogenetic update and review of the family Liolaemidae, emphasizing in the main papers of the last 30 years in Argentina.

Keywords : Liolaemidae; Ctenoblepharys; Liolaemus; Phymaturus; Filogenia; Liolaemidae; Ctenoblepharys; Liolaemus; Phymaturus; Phylogeny.

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