Liolaemus forsteri, commonly known as Forster's tree iguana, is a species of lizard in the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Bolivia.
Etymology The specific name, forsteri, is in honor of German entomologist Walter Forster.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Liolaemus forsteri, p. 93).
Geographic range L. forsteri is found in La Paz Department, Bolivia.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of L. forsteri is rocky areas of grassland, at altitudes of . It has also been found in agricultural areas such as in rock piles on potato farms and in pastures of alpacas and llamas.
Description A large species for its genus, L. forsteri may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . It is heavy-bodied, and the digits of all four feet are very short. The dorsal scales are small and tubercular. The ventral scales are larger and smooth.Laurent RF (1982).
References
Further reading Estrada-Groux, Flavia; Prada-Alba, Camila B.; Miranda-Calle, Alejandro Bruno (2021). "Primer registro de cola bifurcada en Liolaemus forsteri Laurent 1982 (Squamata, Liolaemidae)". Boletín Chileno de Herpetología 8: 90–91. (in Spanish). Laurent RF (1982). "Description de trois espèces nouvelles du genre Liolaemus (Sauria, Iguanidae)". Spixiana 5 (2): 139–147. (Liolaemus forsteri, new species, pp. 139–142, Figure 1). (in French, with an abstract in English). Miranda, Bruno; Torrico-Paz, Stephanie; Ocampo, Mauricio; Aguilar-Kirigin, Alvaro J.; Ríos, Jehan Ninón; Aparicio, James (2021). "Liolaemus forsteri. Response to Flooding". Herpetological Review 52 (3): 650–651.