Elgaria

Elgaria
Elgaria multicarinata eating a mantis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Family:	Anguidae
Subfamily:	Gerrhonotinae
Genus:	Elgaria Gray, 1838
Species
Seven, see text.

Elgaria is a genus of New World lizards in the family Anguidae. Their common name is western alligator lizards.^[1]

Geographic range

Species in the genus Elgaria are distributed in western North America, from Mexico to Canada.^[2]

Species

There are seven species:^[2]

• Elgaria cedrosensis (Fitch, 1934)
• Elgaria coerulea (Wiegmann, 1828) — northern alligator lizard
• Elgaria kingii Gray, 1838 — Madrean alligator Lizard
• Elgaria multicarinata (Blainville, 1835) — southern alligator lizard
• Elgaria panamintina (Stebbins, 1958) — Panamint alligator lizard
• Elgaria paucicarinata (Fitch, 1934) — San Lucan alligator lizard
• Elgaria velazquezi Grismer & Hollingsworth, 2001

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

References

Further reading

• Gray JE. 1838. Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., First Series 1: 274-283, 388-394. (Elgaria, new genus, p. 390).

• Gray JE. 1845. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Genus Elgaria, p. 46).

• Stebbins RC. 2003. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. xiii + 533 pp. ISBN 978-0-395-98272-3. (Genus Elgaria, p. 331).