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Abronia ornelasi CAMPBELL, 1984

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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesS: Escorpión Arboricola de Ornelas
E: Ornelas’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard, Cerro Baul Alligator Lizard 
SynonymAbronia ornelasi CAMPBELL 1984
Abronia (Abaculabronia) ornelasi — CAMPBELL & FROST 1993
Abronia ornelasi — LINER 1994
Abronia ornelasi — KÖHLER 2000: 39
Abronia ornelasi — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015 
DistributionMexico (E Oaxaca), elevation 1500-1600 m

Type locality: Cerro Baul, Oaxaca, Mexico; cloud forest at an elevation of about 1600 m.  
Reproductionviviparous 
TypesHolotype: UTA R-6641, an adult male, University of Texas at Arlington Collection of Vertebrates. Original number JAC 3103, collected 25 July 1977 by Julio Ornelas Martinez. 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: The type locality is in the vicinity of Colonia Rodulfo Figueroa, in the Atlantic drainage of the Rio Mono Blanco, 19 km NW Rizo de Oro, Chiapas.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
Etymology 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Campbell J A 1984. A new species of Abronia (Sauria: Anguidae) with comments on the herpetogeography of the highlands of southern Mexico. Herpetologica 40 (4): 373-381 - 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
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • Good, D.A. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine lizards; an analysis of external morphology. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 121: 139 pp. - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
  • 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
 
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