Madrean alligator lizard

Madrean alligator lizard
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Anguidae
Genus:	Elgaria
Species:	E. kingii
Binomial name
	Elgaria kingii; Gray, 1838
Synonyms
	Elgaria kingii ; Gray, 1838; Gerrhonotus kingii ; — O'Shaughnessy, 1873; Gerrhonotus multifasciatus ; A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839; Gerrhonotus kingii ; — Bocourt, 1878; Elgaria kingii ; — Tihen, 1948; Elgaria usafa ; H.M. Smith et al. 2003;

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]

Elgaria kingii is found from southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, United States, southward to Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, southeastern Zacatecas, and southwestern Aguascalientes, Mexico.

^ Hammerson GA, Vazquez Díaz J, Quintero Díaz GE (2007). "Elgaria kingii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007. IUCN: e.T63702A12706965. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63702A12706965.en. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "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).

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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