Table 1.
Species of the L. montanus group described or cited from Bolivia.
Fig 1.
Phylogenetic tree showing the relationships between Liolaemus sp. nov., within the L. montanus group.
The values correspond to the support measure, symmetric resampling.
Table 2.
Morphological characteristics used in this study for statistical analysis.
Table 3.
Principal component (PC) axes loadings of continuous characters.
Table 4.
Principal component (PC) axes loadings of meristic characters.
Fig 2.
Plot of principal components scores to continuous characters for L. griseus (black stars, n = 10), L. huacahuasicus (red rhombus, n = 15), L. orko (turquoise square, n = 10), L. pulcherrimus (green triangle, n = 12), and Liolaemus sp. nov. (yellow triangle, n = 15).
Eigenvectors, eigenvalues, and percent variation explained for the first two principal components are summarized in Table 3.
Fig 3.
Plot of principal components score to meristic characters for L. griseus (black stars, n = 10), L. huacahuasicus (red rhombus, n = 15), L. orko (turquoise square, n = 10), L. pulcherrimus (green triangle, n = 12), and Liolaemus sp. nov. (yellow triangle, n = 15).
Eigenvector, eigenvalues, and percent variation explained for the first five principal components are summarized in Table 4.
Fig 4.
Holotype of Liolaemus tajzara sp. nov., dorsolateral view.
Photograph: C.S. Abdala.
Fig 5.
Holotype of Liolaemus tajzara sp. nov., ventral view.
Photograph: C.S. Abdala.
Fig 6.
Male specimen of Liolaemus tajzara sp. nov., from the type locality.
Photograph: C.S. Abdala.
Fig 7.
Female specimen of Liolaemus tajzara sp. nov., from the type locality.
Photograph: C.S. Abdala.
Fig 8.
Scales of the back of the body of L. tajzara sp. nov. exhibiting keeled dark scales and smooth in the light-colored scales.
Fig 9.
Male specimen of L. pulcherrimus from Mudana, Jujuy, Argentina, dorsolateral view.
Photograph: C. S. Abdala.
Fig 10.
Male specimen of L. pulcherrimus from Mudana, Jujuy, Argentina, ventral view.
Photograph: C. S. Abdala.
Fig 11.
Bolivia map showing the distribution of species of the L. montanus group: (A) L. tajzara sp. nov.: red circle (21º42’21.8”S 65º3’53.3”W, 21º43’57.6”S 65º3’36.9”W, 21º45’37.3”S 65º3’6.7”W, 21º48’1.6”S 65º2’16.5”W). (B) L. chlorostictus: yellow circle (22º16’42.9”S 67º3’21.6”W). (C) L. erguetae: green circle (21º44’23.7”S 67º23’48.5”W, 22º12’33.1”S 67º42’29.6”W). (D) L. fittkaui: orange circle (17º19’34.0”S 65º50’3.4”W, 17º22’43.3”S 65º39’51.8”W, 17º28’4.9”S 65º33’40.1”W). (E) L. forsteri: brown circle (16º18’49.7”S 68º9’27.0”W, 16º20’56.5”S 68º1’44.7”W, 16º22’35.4”S 68º5’26.7”W, 16º22’2.5”S 68º8’45.1”W, 16º30’45.4”S 67º59’45”W, 16º38’40.9”S 67º50’14.6”W). (F) L. islugensis: blue circle (18º57’48.4”S 66º42’52.2”W, 19º2’46.1”S 68º3’28.6”W). (G) L. jamesi: yellow diamond (18º9’0”S 69º7’0’W). (H) L. orientalis: blue diamond (21º40’59.5”S 65º0’31.6”W). (I) L. pachecoi: orange diamond (22º12’33.1”S 67º42’29.6”W). (J) L. pleopholis: red diamond (18º7’0”S 69º2’0”W, 18º8’11.8”S 68º58’31.5”W, 18º10’7.4”S 68º43’18.7”W, 18º19’31.7”S 68º53’18”W). (K) L. puritamensis: brown diamond (22º11’16”S 67º20’18.3”W, 22º16’42.9”S 67º3’21.6”W, 22º27’51.6”S 67º35’42.1”W). (L) L. schmidti: blue triangle (22º12’33.1”S 67º42’29.6”W). (M) L. signifer: green triangle (15º37’39.6”S 69º1’52.5”W, 16º11’56.8”S 68º28’12.2”W, 16º32’53.4”S 68º40’46.1”W, 17º13’9.1”S 67º52’57.2”W).
Fig 12.
Plate with photos of male specimens of the different species that we consider valid of L. montanus group from Bolivia.
(A) L. chlorostictus. (B) L. erguetae. (C) L. fittkaui. (D) L. forsteri. (E) L. islugensis. (F) L. jamesi. (G) L. orientalis. (H) L. pachecoi. (I) L. pleopholis. (J) L. puritamensis. (K) L. schmidti. (L) L. signifer.