Liolaemus fabiani

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| image = Liolaemus fabiani.jpg

| image_caption = Liolaemus fabiani in the Salar de Atacama

| status= EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Nunez [sic], H. |author-link=species:Herman Núñez |author2=Valladares, P. |author2-link=species:Pablo Valladares Faúndez |author3=Ruiz de Gamboa, M. |author3-link=species:Margarita Ruiz de Gamboa |author4=Mella, J. |author4-link=species:Jorge Mella |author5=Marambio, Y. |author5-link=species:Yery Marambio-Alfaro |date=2017 |title=Liolaemus fabiani |volume=2017 |page=e.T56060171A56060173 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T56060171A56060173.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Liolaemus

| species = fabiani

| authority = Yáñez & Núñez, 1983

| synonyms = *Liolaemus fabiani
{{small|Yáñez & Núñez, 1983}}

Abas fabiani
{{small|— Núñez & Yáñez, 1984}}
Liolaemus fabiani
{{small|— Valladares et al., 2002}}
Liolaemus (Eulaemus) fabiani
{{small|— Ramírez-Leyton &
Pincheira-Donoso, 2005}}

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Liolaemus fabiani, also known commonly as Fabian's lizard, Yanez's tree iguana, and lagartija de Fabián in Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Liolaemidae.[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Liolaemus_fabiani/classification/ Liolaemus fabiani] Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. The species is native to Chile.

Etymology

The specific name, fabiani, is in honor of Chilean ecologist Fabián Jaksic.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Liolaemus fabiani, p. 88).

Geographic range

L. fabiani is endemic to the Salar de Atacama, the Atacama salt flat, in northern Chile.Escobar, Claudio M. et al. (2003). [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022858919037 "Chemical Composition of Precloacal Secretions of Two Liolaemus fabiani Populations: Are They Different?"]. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29 (3): 629.

The species was first described by José L. Yáñez and Herman Núñez in 1983, from a sample collected at a high elevation, {{convert|2,450|m|ft|abbr=on}}, near San Pedro de Atacama in Llano de Vilama in September 1981 by the Chilean National Museum of Natural History.Yáñez, José L.; Núñez, Herman (1983).[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1444347 "Liolaemus fabiani, a New Species of Lizard from Northern Chile (Reptilia: Iguanidae)"]. Copeia 1983 (3): 788-790.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. fabiani is hot desert, at altitudes of {{cvt|2,300|–|3,000|m|ft}}, where it is found near water, and has been observed swimming in search of prey.

Description

Principle diagnostic features of L. fabiani are: "subtriangular head with temporal and occipital regions more prominent than in other species of the genus; dorsal humeral scales smooth and triangular; color pattern ornamented with red and black spots."