Abronia (lizard)
Abronia, a genus of lizards in the family Anguidae that are endemic to northern Central America.[2] Occurring mainly Mexico and Guatemala. Yet there are species that occur as far south as El Salvador and Honduras ex. A.montercristoi.[3] Abronia are almost exclusively arboreal. These lizards possess intriguing physical traits such as keeled body scales, patterns on each individual scales, and some even have spikes ex. A.lychrochila[4] coming off the back of their heads. (Traits vary from species to species)
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Anguidae |
Genus: | Abronia Gray, 1838[1] |
Species
These species are recognized:[2]
- Abronia antauges (Cope, 1866)
- Abronia anzuetoi Campbell & Frost, 1993
- Abronia aurita (Cope, 1869)
- Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954
- Abronia campbelli Brodie & Savage, 1993
- Abronia chiszari H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1981
- Abronia cuchumatanus Solano-Zavaleta, Nieto-Montes de Oca & Campbell, 2016
- Abronia cuetzpali Campbell, Solano-Zavaleta, Flores-Villela, Caviedes-Solís & Frost, 2016
- Abronia deppii (Wiegmann, 1828)
- Abronia fimbriata (Cope, 1884)
- Abronia frosti Campbell, Sasa, Acevedo & Mendelson, 1998
- Abronia fuscolabialis (Tihen, 1944)
- Abronia gadovii (Boulenger, 1913)
- Abronia gaiophantasma Campbell & Frost, 1993
- Abronia graminea (Cope, 1864)
- Abronia juarezi (Karges & J.W. Wright, 1987)
- Abronia leurolepis Campbell & Frost, 1993
- Abronia lythrochila H.M. Smith & Álvarez del Toro, 1963
- Abronia martindelcampoi Flores-Villela & Sánchez-H., 2003
- Abronia matudai (Hartweg & Tihen, 1946)
- Abronia meledona Campbell & Brodie, 1999
- Abronia mitchelli Campbell, 1982
- Abronia mixteca Bogert & Porter, 1967
- Abronia montecristoi Hidalgo, 1983 — Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia monticola (Cope, 1878)
- Abronia moreletii (Bocourt, 1871) – Morelet's alligator lizard
- Abronia morenica Clause, Luna-Reyes & De Oca, 2020[5]
Characteristics
A. Morenica possess 3 distinct features that differentiate them from their subgenus Lissabronia, which includes "lack of frontonasal-frontal contact, supranasals unexpanded, and a lack of posterior subocular-primary temporal contact".[5]
- Abronia oaxacae (Günther, 1885)
- Abronia ochoterenai (Martín del Campo, 1939)
- Abronia ornelasi Campbell, 1984
- Abronia ramirezi Campbell, 1994
- Abronia reidi Werler & Shannon, 1961
- Abronia salvadorensis Hidalgo, 1983
- Abronia smithi Campbell & Frost, 1993
- Abronia taeniata (Wiegmann, 1828)
- Abronia vasconcelosii (Bocourt, 1871)
- Abronia viridiflava (Bocourt, 1873)
- Abronia zongolica (Uri Omar García-Vázquez, Adam G. Clause, Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Erasmo Cazares-Hernández & Miguel Ángel de la Torre-Loranca, 2022)[6]
References
- "Abronia". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- Abronia. The Reptile Database. Consulted: 2012-04-06.
- "Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard", Wikipedia, 2022-01-28, retrieved 2022-04-14
- "Abronia lythrochila", Wikipedia, 2022-01-28, retrieved 2022-04-14
- Clause, Adam G.; Luna-Reyes, Roberto; De Oca, Adrián Nieto-Montes (2020-09-09). "A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from a Protected Area in Chiapas, Mexico". Herpetologica. 76 (3): 330. doi:10.1655/Herpetologica-D-19-00047. ISSN 0018-0831. S2CID 221564537.
- Uri Omar García-Vázquez, Adam G. Clause, Jorge Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Erasmo Cazares-Hernández & Miguel Ángel de la Torre-Loranca. (27 January 2022). A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Sierra de Zongolica of Veracruz, Mexico. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 110 (1): 33-49.
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