Abronia cunemica CLAUSE, LUNA-REYES, MENDOZA-VELÁZQUEZ, NIETO-MONTES DE OCA & SOLANO-ZAVALETA, 2024
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Abronia cunemica
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| Higher Taxa | Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | S: Dragoncito de Coapilla E: Coapilla Arboreal Alligator Lizard |
| Synonym | Abronia cunemica CLAUSE, LUNA-REYES, MENDOZA-VELÁZQUEZ, NIETO-MONTES DE OCA & SOLANO-ZAVALETA 2024: 9 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Chiapas) Type locality: vicinity of Coapilla, Municipio de Coapilla, Northern Highlands, Chiapas, Mexico (17.14 ̊, -93.16 ̊, datum WGS 84), 1625 m elevation. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: MZFC-HE 36544 (field series number AGC 1428), adult male, Adam G. Clause, Emmanuel Javier-Vázquez, Ana Reyna Pale Morales, 14 August 2021. Paratypes: (Figs 6 and 7, Table 1, n = 4) MZFC-HE 36545 (field series number AGC 1429), adult female, all collection data the same as for the holotype. MZFZ 4512 (AGC 1484), juvenile male, vicinity of Coapilla, Municipio de Coapilla, Northern Highlands, Chiapas, Mexico (17.13 ̊, -93.16 ̊, datum WGS 84), 1605 m elevation, Oscar M. Mendoza-Velázquez, Candelario Cundap ́ı-Pe ́rez, Roberto Luna-Reyes, Adam G. Clause, Marcos Joaquín Fitz-Pe ́rez, Jose ́ Manuel Toledo-Morales, Emmanuel JavierVa ́zquez, Daniel Lara-Tufiño, 16 February 2022. MZFZ 4513–4514 (AGC 1491–1492), two adult females, all collection data the same as for MZFZ 4512 except collected on 18 and 19 February 2022, respectively. The GPS coordinates in this paragraph and the preceding paragraph are intentionally imprecise; details are available in the Conservation subsection. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Abronia cunemica sp. nov. can be distinguished from all recognized congeners, including all species formerly considered members of the genus Mesaspis, by the following combination of characters: (1) lack of protuberant or spine-like supra-auricular scales; (2) lack of protuberant or casque-like posterolateral head scales; (3) dorsum of head pale yellow with distinct dark markings; (4) 35–39 transverse dorsal scale rows; (5) lateralmost row of ventral scales enlarged relative to adjacent medial row; and (6) dorsum brown with dark crossbands, these sometimes reduced to series of dark spots. (Clause et al. 2024) |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | From Cuñemo (alternative spellings: Kuñømø or Kujnya ̈’ma ̈), which is the name for Coapilla in the indigenous Zoque language. Coapilla is derived from the Na ́huatl words coatl (snake) and apan (river) and means “river of the snakes,” while Cuñemo has been variously translated as agua entre los árboles (“water among the trees” in English), lugar de la gran capital (“place of the new or great capital”), or corona de cerros (“crown of hills”) according to residents of the area. The chosen name, derived from the Zoque language, thus refers to the ejido and municipality which support the only known population of the new species. |
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