Microlophus yanezi, commonly called Yanez's lava lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is endemic to the Chilean MatorralC. Michael Hogan & World Wildlife Fund. (2013). Chilean matorral. ed. M.McGinley. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC within the nation of Chile.Microlophus yanezi. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Etymology The specific name, yanezi, is in honor of Chilean zoologist José Lautaro Yáñez-Valenzuela (born 1951).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Microlophus yanezi, p. 292).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of M. yanezi is desert, at altitudes from sea level to .
Reproduction M. yanezi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Ortiz-Zapata JC (1980). "Revisión taxonómica del Género Tropidurus en Chile ". Actas de la Reunión Iberoamericana de Zoologia 1: 355–377. (Tropidurus yanezi, new species). (in Spanish).