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Distribution

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Continent: South-America
Distribution: Argentina (Santa Cruz, Chubut, Rio Negro, Mendoza, Neuquen)
Type locality: see comment.

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Leiosaurus is a genus of lizards in the family Leiosauridae. The genus is endemic to South America.^[2]

The genus Leiosaurus contains the following species which are recognized as being valid:^[2]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Leiosaurus.

The specific name, bellii, is in honor of English zoologist Thomas Bell, and the specific name, paronae, is in honor of Italian zoologist Corrado Parona.^[3]

^ Peracca MG (1897). "Intorno ad un nuovo genere di Iguanide del Brasile ". Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino 12 (299): 1-3. (Aperopristis, new genus, p. 1). (in Italian).
^ ^a ^b Genus Leiosaurus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org
^ 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. (Leiosaurus bellii, p. 22; Leiosaurus paronae, p. 201).

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