''Liolaemus fuscus'' (brown 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
Iguanidae.
It is found in parts of western
Argentina and central
Chile in the
Chilean matorral ecoregion. The conservation status of this iguana is classified as Data Deficient (DD).
[World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996]
References
* C. Michael Hogan & World Wildlife Fund. 2013
Chilean matorral. ed. M.McGinley. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment Washington DC
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fuscus
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Reptiles of Chile
Fauna of the Chilean Matorral
Reptiles described in 1885
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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