Abronia ochoterenai (MARTIN DEL CAMPO, 1939)

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	S: Escorpión Arboricola de Ochoterena E: Ochoterena’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard, Northern Chiapas Arboreal Alligator Lizard
Synonym	Gerrhonotus vasconcelosii ochoterenai MARTIN DEL CAMPO 1939 Gerrhonotus ochoterenai — HARTWEG & TIHEN 1946 Abronia ochoterenai — TIHEN 1949: 591 Abronia ochoterenai — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 197 Gerrhonotus ochoterenai — WERMUTH 1969: 25 Abronia (Auriculabronia) ochoterenai — CAMPBELL & FROST 1993 Abronia ochoterenai — LINER 1994 Abronia ochoterenai — KÖHLER 2000: 39 Abronia ochoterenai — CLAUSE et al. 2020
Distribution	Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala [Acevedo et al. 2010]) 1800-2300 m elevation Type locality: Santa Rosa, Comitán, Chiapas.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: CNAR (= UNAM, Instituto de Biología, México)
Diagnosis	Description: Postmental unpaired; a group of long, slender, supra-auricular scales; scales of the sides of the neck relatively small; dorsal osteoderms developed over the entire body; two primary temporals in contact with the orbit; penultimate supralabial in contact with the orbit or not; anterior canthals usually present; three primary and three secondary temporals; three temporal elements in contact with the supralabials; 30 to 33 transverse rows of dorsals; a minimum of six scales in any nuchal row; caudal whorls 92-97; supranasals usually present; parietal separated from, or only narrowly in contact with, the medial supraoculars; dorsum nearly uniform,sometimeswithmoderatelydistincttransversedarkbands,those of the neck combined into a single large dark marking; frontonasal present or absent (Tihen 1954: 24).
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	Bogert, Charles M. & Porter, Ann P. 1967. A new species of Abronia (Sauria, Anguidae) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. American Museum Novitates (2279): 1-21 - get paper here Campbell J A; Frost D R 1993. Anguid lizards of the genus Abronia: revisionary notes, descriptions of four new species, a phylogenetic analysis, and key. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 216: 1-121 - get paper here Clause, A. G., Luna-Reyes, R. & Nieto-Montes De Oca, A. 2020. A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from a Protected Area in Chiapas, Mexico. Herpetologica 76 (3): 330-343 - get paper here Good, D.A. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine lizards; an analysis of external morphology. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 121: 139 pp. - get paper here Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp. Martín del CAMPO, R. 1939. Contribución al conocimiento de los gerrhonoti mexicanos, con la presentación de una nueva forma. Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Auton. México 10: 353-361. Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Smith, H.M. & Taylor,E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1-253 - get paper here Tihen, J. A. 1949. The genera of gerrhonotine Iizards. American Midland Naturalist 41: 579-601 - get paper here Tihen, J. A. 1954. Gerrhonotine lizards recently added to the American Museum collection, with further revisions of the genus Abronia. American Museum Novitates (1687): 1-26 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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