Liolaemus monticola Müller & Hellmich, 1932

Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel, Scolaro, J. Alejandro & Sura, Piotr, 2008, A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania), Zootaxa 1800, pp. 1-85 : 27

Liolaemus monticola Müller & Hellmich

Liolaemus monticola monticola Müller & Hellmich 1932c: 177 (type locality: Río San Francisco Valley, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile); Burt & Burt 1933: 34; Hellmich 1934: 87; Donoso-Barros & Candiani 1950: 488; DonosoBarros 1966a: 226, 1970a: 186, 1970b: 94; Fuentes & Ipinza 1979: 123; Vanzolini 1986: 15; Veloso & Navarro 1988: 507; Laurent 1992: 32; Núñez & Jaksic 1992: 74; Etheridge 1995: 33; Etheridge & Espinoza 2000: 7.

Liolaemus (Liolaemus) monticola Pincheira-Donoso & Núñez 2005: 372 .

Liolaemus monticola Pflaumer 1944: 113 ; Porter 1972: 401; Mattison 1999: 60; Escobar et al. 2001: 1679; Fox & Shipman 2003: 321; Sura 2005: 429; Díaz & Lobo 2006: 264; Labra 2006: 993.

Observations: Over the last two decades, a series of karyotypic studies conducted in different apparently isolated populations assigned to L. monticola have suggested that they might have experienced processes of genetic diversification ( Lamborot et al. 1979, 1981, 2003; Lamborot 1985 a, b, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2001; Lamborot & Eaton 1992, 1997; Lamborot & Alvarez-Sarret 1993). Nevertheless, although karyological aspects have been explored thoroughly, additional detailed studies are needed to evaluate the impact of geographical barriers, such as rivers, in driving incipient differentiation in these lizard populations (Núñez & PincheiraDonoso 2006; see Lamborot & Eaton 1992, 1997; Lamborot et al. 2003 for morphological information). Since it is not entirely clear whether all these studied populations are indeed L. monticola ( Pincheira-Donoso & Núñez 2005) , we do not refer most of these studies in the nomenclatural history of this taxon.