''Liolaemus fitzingerii'', also known
commonly as Fitzinger's tree iguana, is a
species of
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family Liolaemidae.
The species is native to extreme southern
South America.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''fitzingerii'', is in honor of Austrian herpetologist
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.
Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the University of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. He worked at the Vienna Naturhis ...
.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Liolaemus fitzingerii'', p. 91).]
Geographic range
''L. fitzingerii'' is found in
Argentina (
Chubut Province,
Santa Cruz Province) and
Chile (
Aysén Region).
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Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of ''L. fitzingerii'' are shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
and grassland, at altitudes from sea level to .
Diet
''L. fitzingerii'' preys
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
predominately on insects.
Reproduction
''L. fitzingerii'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
.[
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References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II., Iguanidæ ....'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (''Liolaemus fitzingeri'', pp. 150–151).
* Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1837). ''Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Tome quatrième'' General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of the Reptiles. Volume 4 Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. 571 pp. + ''errata et emendanda''. (''Proctotretus fitzingerii'', new species, pp. 286–288). (in French).
* Grummer JA, Morando MM, Avila LJ, Sites JW Jr, Leaché AD (2018). "Phylogenomic evidence for a recent and rapid radiation of lizards in the Patagonian ''Liolaemus fitzingerii'' species group". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 125: 243–254.
* Minoli I, Morando M, Avila LJ (2014). "Integrative taxonomy in the ''Liolaemus fitzingerii'' complex (Squamata: Liolaemini) based on morphological analyses and niche modeling". ''Zootaxa'' 3856 (4): 501–528.
fitzingerii
Reptiles described in 1837
Reptiles of Chile
Reptiles of Argentina
Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril
Taxa named by Gabriel Bibron
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