Elgaria
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| Genus: | Elgaria Gray, 1838
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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
- ^ "Elgaria Gray, 1838". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b Elgaria at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 May 2014.
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).
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