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Liolaemus tenuis (Thin Tree Iguana)

Synonyms: Proctotretus niger; Proctotretus tenuis; Troidurus ptychopleurus

Wikipedia Abstract

Liolaemus tenuis, known as the jewel lizard, is a species of lizard in the Iguanidae family. Other names are slender lizard and thin lizard. It is endemic to Chile. It is a relatively small species, with a 5.5 cm snout-to-vent length. Of diurnal habits, it feeds mainly of insects. It is sometimes kept as a pet.
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Infraspecies

Liolaemus tenuis muller
Liolaemus tenuis punctatissimus
Liolaemus tenuis tenuis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.5 grams
Gestation [2]  60 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Chilean matorral Chile Neotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Valdivian temperate forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lanín National Park II 536819 Neuquen, Argentina

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile Yes

Predators

Lycalopex fulvipes (Darwin's Fox)[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Habitat and Diet of Darwin's Fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) on the Chilean Mainland, Fabian M. Jaksić, Jaime E. Jiménez, Rodrigo G. Medel, Pablo A. Marquet, Journal of Mammalogy, 71(2):246-248, 1990
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0