Madrean alligator lizard
| Madrean alligator lizard | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria |
| Infraorder: | Anguimorpha |
| Family: | Anguidae |
| Subfamily: | Gerrhonotinae |
| Genus: | Elgaria |
| Species: | E. kingii |
| Binomial name | |
| Elgaria kingii Gray, 1838[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Madrean alligator lizard (Elgaria kingii ) is a species of anguid lizard endemic to the southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico.
Etymology
The specific name, kingii, is in honor of Phillip Parker King, an Australian-born Royal Navy officer who surveyed the coast of South America.[3]
Geographic range
E. kingii is found from southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, United States, southward to Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, southeastern Zacatecas, and southwestern Aguascalientes, Mexico.
References
- ↑ Hammerson GA, Vazquez Díaz J, Quintero Díaz GE. (2007). "Elgaria kingii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- 1 2 "Elgaria kingii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Elgaria kingii, p. 141).
Further reading
- Boulenger GA. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Anguidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Gerrhonotus kingii, pp. 274-275).
- 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 kingii, new species, pp. 390-391).
- Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr. 1982. Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. ISBN 0-307-13666-3. ("Elgaria kingi [sic]", pp. 86-87).
- 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. (Elgaria kingii, pp. 334-335 + Plate 41 + Map 124).
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